Juneteenth 2025 Ferris wheel lighting at the Santa Monica Pier

Published on June 17, 2025

The Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel will be lit green, gold, red, white, and blue on Thursday, June 19 in recognition of Juneteenth 2025.

Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) is an annual observance celebrating the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, had established that all enslaved people “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

Pacific Park will join other landmarks in lighting red, white, blue for this special occasion. The Pacific Wheel will also display colors of the Pan-african flag, red, green, and gold.

This special lighting event will take place on the evening of Thursday, June 19. The Ferris wheel lights can be seen from dusk until 11:35 PM each evening. Enjoy watching the light program online at www.pacpark.com/live.

WHAT:
Special Lighting of the Pacific Wheel for Juneteenth 2025

WHEN:
Thursday, June 19
dusk (around 8 PM) to midnight

WHERE:
Pacific Park on the Santa Monica Pier

 

See the lights from home at www.pacpark.com/live.

Pacific Park regularly programs the Ferris wheel to display seasonal programing and themed light designs for holidays and special occasions. The Pacific Wheel’s state-of-the-art lighting package was installed in 2016 and can display over 1.6 million different colors and animate patterns and icons in 24 frames per second. The energy efficient LEDs on the face of the Ferris wheel are powered by solar arrays inside Pacific Park. The light programs are curated and designed by Pacific Park staff. Each design is manually animated; some designs can take hours of programming. The aim is to provide fun, high-energy, and sometimes whimsical designs to entertain guests on the Santa Monica Pier and surrounding beaches.

 

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Feature image courtesy of @pacpark