A popular holiday drive-thru light show has a new home for the 2026 season. Nights of Lights will set up this year at the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, WKRC reported.
The move continues a nomadic few years for the display. It was set up at the Clermont County Fairgrounds for the past two years, and before that it ran for years at Coney Island, until that site was sold and demolished for a new music venue, WKRC reported.
The show itself is unchanged in scale: the display still features two million lights synchronized to music, according to its website, cited by WKRC. Families experience it from their cars, driving through the fairgrounds route rather than walking it.
Tickets are $33 per carload for up to eight people, WKRC reported. Priced by the car rather than by the person, the show is built for full family loads — a single ticket covers a car of up to eight.
The Warren County Fairgrounds, at 665 North Broadway Street in Lebanon, is the county’s established event grounds — home to the Warren County Fair each summer — and the fairgrounds had been preparing for the show for weeks, with vehicle storage on the grounds closed after Oct. 17 so display setup and pathways could begin, according to the fairgrounds.
For Warren County, the arrival adds a second major drive-thru draw to a holiday calendar that already brings visitors to Lebanon, Mason and the surrounding communities through the season; for Clermont County, it ends a two-year run as the show’s host.
The fairgrounds is adding its own piece to the event: a Santa Village sponsored by Jake Sweeney Buick & GMC will run during Nights of Lights, and the fairgrounds has been recruiting local vendors to take part, according to the fairgrounds. It has also warned visitors to buy and communicate carefully — the fairgrounds says scammers have impersonated it for the event using a look-alike email address, and stresses that its only official email is [email protected].
What happens next: Nights of Lights opens Friday, Nov. 20 at the Warren County Fairgrounds and runs through Jan. 2. Tickets are on sale through the show’s website ahead of opening night.
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