Bright Nights at Four Mile Historic Park 2025

Denver's most colorful Summer event is back!

Bright Nights by Tianyu Arts & Culture returns to Denver's Four Mile Historic Park for eleven weeks of immersive and whimsical illuminated fun. With colorful lanterns, interactive installations, walk through light tunnels, live entertainment, food trucks, and photo opportunities galore, Bright Nights offers a world of fun for the whole family. 

We recently visited Bright Nights, and I'm so excited to share it all with you here.

Let's take a look...

Glowing Wild at Denver Zoo

If you’re looking for somewhere to spend a day filled with wonder, excitement and a wealth of wildlife, Denver Zoo is always a great choice. Right now, it’s also one of the most colorful places to visit, day or night. But only for a few more days.

Through May 4th, Denver Zoo is home to Glowing Wild; an awe inspiring exhibition filled with larger than life colorful lanterns by Tianyu Arts & Culture. 

Sixty unique scenes featuring various flora and fauna inspired lanterns light up the night on May 2nd through 4th, however, if you happen to visit the zoo during the day, you’ll also be in for a treat.

I visited Denver Zoo today with Mathilde’s class for a school field trip and had the pleasure of being able to see all of the Glowing Wild sculptures for myself.

Let’s take a look…

 

Bright Nights at Four Mile Historic Park 2024

Bright Nights is back at Denver's Four Mile Historic Park!

If you've been here a while you might remember our visit from last year (you can see it here). This year, Bright Nights is bigger and brighter than ever with larger than life illuminated sculptures and interactive fun lighting up the Denver nights through late September.

Let's take a look...

Bright Nights at Four Mile Historic Park

Denver nights will be looking a little brighter than usual over the next ten weeks thanks to a special new exhibition that has popped up in Four Mile Historic Park.

Bright Nights is a colorful display of illuminated sculptures and interactive fun that is sure to delight the whole family. Based on the Chinese tradition of lantern festivals, Bright Nights brings larger than life sculptures of animals and Chinese folklore to life through millions of twinkling lights. 

Spread over Four Mile Historic Park's twelve acres, the exhibition features colorful whales, penguins, axolotls, fish, butterflies, peacocks, pandas, farm animals, sea horses and so many more creatures that twinkle in the dark and, in some cases, even move. You'll also find terracotta warriors, the animals of the Chinese zodiac and a giant steam breathing dragon on display.

An interactive children's area features lights to jump on, lighted swings, interactive displays, a mirrored room with dazzling lights, a glowing rain cloud, a glowing see saw and so much more.

We were lucky enough to be invited to a VIP night last weekend and it was such a fun night out. Read on to see all my favorite pics from the night and all the info you need to know about visiting Bright Nights, including some handy tips.