Starting a New Year of Festivals plus some Announcements
Happy 2025, Festival Fans!
It’s going to be another great year of festivals and fun throughout the state of Ohio.
I have already begun updating dates on the Festival Guide through April and will start looking at later months in the weeks ahead.
If you are looking ahead on the Festival Guide, please know that the asterisk means that I, myself, haven’t yet confirmed the date yet. But that doesn’t mean that the main festival website (which the listing is linked to) hasn’t already updated the 2025 info.
So feel free to still go through the guide and visit the festival websites and see for yourself if the 2025 is there.
I’ll get there myself eventually.
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OTHER NEWS: Winter is a hard time for me to sit around.
I had originally planned to add the states of California and (Eastern) New York to my Festival Guides and Reviews website for 2025 – but I already finished that.
So now, after getting a series of votes to add new states, I have decided to add the states of Oklahoma, Kansas and Colorado. I am almost done with Oklahoma and should have the other two states done by the end of the month.
Please let your friends and family in those states know!
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This week, the listings are pretty much the last week of Holiday Lights, some New Year’s Eve Celebrations (that have already passed by now) and a few shows.
There will be more next weekend – don’t you worry!
If you are interested in this weekend’s festivals outside of Ohio, check out this week’s post at Festival Guides and Reviews: https://festivalguidesandreviews.com/festival-weekend-010525
If you happen to be in California this weekend, I have a post for that state as well: https://festivalguidesandreviews.com/california-weekend-010525
Have a wonderful weekend!
Until next week…
Love, Peace and Festival Grease!
Ohio Festival Weekend: January 2-5, 2025
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MAP of festival and fair food cities this weekend.
If you can’t see the map on your smartphone, click HERE.
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My Experiences of this Weekend’s Festivals
12/30-1/4 – Christmas Around the World VI – Avon – My Review
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OHIO FAIRS AND SHOWS
1/3-1/5 – Columbus Building and Renovation Expo – Columbus
1/4 – Fremont Pigeon Club Winter Show – Fremont
OHIO FESTIVALS
12/30 – Akron Zoo Wild Lights VI – Akron
12/30 – Nature’s A-Glow at Beech Creek Gardens VI – Alliance
12/30 – A Carillon Christmas VI – Dayton
12/30 – Wild Winter Lights at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo VIII – Cleveland
12/30 – The Legendary Lights of Historic Clifton Mill VI – Clifton
12/30 – Land of Illusion Christmas Glow VI – Middletown
12/30 – Upper’s Winter Fantasy of Lights VI – Upper Sandusky
12/30-12/31 – Foxtail Holiday Lights VI – Copley
12/30-12/31 – Whispering Christmas Holiday Lights VI – Eaton
12/30-12/31 – Lake of Lights VI – Kenton
12/30-12/31 – Light Up Middletown VI – Middletown
12/30-12/31 – Lights on the North Coast VIII – Sandusky
12/30-12/31 – Toledo Zoo Lights Before Christmas VII – Toledo
12/30-12/31 – Gift of Lights VII – Wapakoneta
12/30-12/31 – Parklights at Caesar Ford VI – Xenia
12/30-1/1 – Butch Bando’s Fantasy of Lights VII – Delaware
Weekend continues below…
12/30-1/1 – Gallipolis in Lights VI – Gallipolis
12/30-1/1 – Armstrong Air and Space Museum Holiday Lights VI – Wapakoneta
12/30-1/2 – Memorial LightFest V – Wadsworth
12/30-1/4 – Christmas Around the World VI – Avon – My Review
12/30-1/4 – Magic of Lights VI – Middleburg Heights
12/30-1/5 – PNC Festival of Lights VII – Cincinnati
12/30-1/5 – Conservatory Aglow VII – Columbus
12/30-1/5 – Wanderlights VII – Columbus
12/30-1/5 – Pyramid Hill Lights VIII – Hamilton
12/30-1/5 – WonderLight’s Christmas in Ohio VIII – Hartford
12/30-1/5 – Cincinnati’s Nights of Lights VII – Owensville
12/30-1/5 – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo VII – Powell
12/30-1/6 – Candy Cane Trail VI – Ashland
12/31 – Holidays on the Farm VI – Cincinnati
12/31 – Downtown Fremont New Year’s Eve Celebration – Fremont
12/31 – Walleye Madness – Port Clinton
1/3-1/5 – Steubenville Nutcracker Village and Holiday Market VI – Steubenville
CINCINNATI FESTIVALS
12/30 – A Carillon Christmas VI – Dayton
12/30 – Land of Illusion Christmas Glow VI – Middletown
12/30-12/31 – Light Up Middletown VI – Middletown
12/30-1/5 – PNC Festival of Lights VII – Cincinnati
12/30-1/5 – Cincinnati’s Nights of Lights VII – Owensville
12/30-1/5 – Pyramid Hill Lights VIII – Hamilton
12/31 – Holidays on the Farm VI – Cincinnati
CLEVELAND FESTIVALS
12/30 – Akron Zoo Wild Lights VI – Akron
12/30 – Wild Winter Lights at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo VIII – Cleveland
12/30-1/4 – Christmas Around the World VI – Avon – My Review
12/30-1/4 – Magic of Lights VI – Middleburg Heights
COLUMBUS FESTIVALS
12/30-1/1 – Butch Bando’s Fantasy of Lights VII – Delaware
12/30-1/5 – Wildlights at Columbus Zoo VII – Powell
12/30-1/5 – Conservatory Aglow VII – Columbus
12/30-1/5 – Wanderlights VII – Columbus
12/30-1/5 – WonderLight’s Christmas in Ohio VIII – Hartford
Do you notice festivals on the map beyond Ohio? Find them below!
Alabama | Arkansas | California | Colorado | Delaware | Florida
Georgia |Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana
Maryland | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri
New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Oklahoma
Pennsylvania |South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | Virginia
Washington, DC | West Virginia | Wisconsin
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