


If you want photos or videos of this spectacular event, we suggest you designate one person, not the driver, to take over this job. Trust us, if you're the driver, you'll want to enjoy the sights and concentrate on the dimly lit road.Doing this helps that long waiting line move more quickly, and the online process promotes the event's COVID-19 protocol. Pardue expects some nights to sell out, and you won't want to wait in that long line only to find out you won't be let in. Be sure to purchase your tickets ahead of time online at. Passenger vans, limousines and RVs are $50. The drive-thru experience is $35 for a car, SUV or minivan.If you can swing it, Monday through Wednesday are less crowded than Thursday through Sunday.
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Come with a full tank of gas, pack a dinner like a pizza to eat in the car, maybe cue up a Halloween-themed movie and settle in. Expect to wait in your car anywhere from one to more than two hours.Here are some tips to help you make the most of your visit to the Jack O'Lantern Spectacular: View Gallery: Jack O'Lantern Spectacular looks a bit different this yearĪs for the crowd, well, all good things come to those who wait and trust us, you'll wait.

Please note that to get the full effect of the lighted jack-o'-lanterns, illuminated set pieces and the magic of the wooded location, you are required to drive with your headlights off.
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More info: Louisville's Jack O' Lantern Spectacular will be a drive-thru in 2020ĭo you own a convertible? We don't, but the family in line in front of us did. Top down on a warm fall night while slowly rolling through the dark with thousands of artfully carved and illuminated pumpkins lining the wooded street - that's got to be the best way to see this show.īut alas, since most of us don't own a ragtop, here's a tip for the next best thing: As long as you have a seat with an unobstructed view and can roll down the windows to take in the soundtrack, you'll be fine. on weekdays and closes at midnight on Fridays and Saturdays. Wonder what the Halloween tradition is like viewed from your car? We did, too, so we headed over to Iroquois Park at 4800 New Cut Road to check it out. The show runs daily from dusk to 11 p.m. In 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Iroquois Park event has reinvented itself from a walking tour of more than 5,000 artistically carved pumpkins to a drive-thru experience to protect visitors from contracting the virus. "We have people traveling to Louisville just to visit Jack O'Lantern Spectacular," said Brooke Pardue, president of the Louisville Parks Foundation. "We had 90,000 visitors last year." The Huffington Post, Country Living Magazine, and MSN.com have called the annual event one of the top Halloween attractions in the country.Īnd when you get that kind of shoutout, plenty of people want to visit. The Jack O'Lantern Spectacular in Louisville has attracted a lot of attention over the past eight years. Watch Video: Nighttime drive through the Louisville Jack O'Lantern Spectacular
