Thanksgiving Ferris Wheel Lighting at Santa Monica Pier

Published on November 11, 2024

Join us for our special Thanksgiving Ferris wheel lighting at the Santa Monica Pier! We’ll light up the Pacific Wheel in orange and red for Thanksgiving 2024.  

This Thanksgiving week, nighttime visitors at the Santa Monica Pier can enjoy Pacific Park’s seasonal salute to the holiday. Enjoy festive Thanksgiving patterns and Turkey designs on Pacific Park’s Pacific Wheel.

Thanksgiving is an annual holiday in the United States. We celebrate it every fourth Thursday in November, and this year it falls on November 28.  Since it’s a fall festival, it’s often associated with harvests and bounty. Therefore, it’s a great time for people to give thanks—for the bounty of the season and for all that we’re grateful for. Other New World countries also celebrate Thanksgiving, including Canada and Brazil.

What a great time to celebrate the season with Thanksgiving Ferris wheel lighting at the Santa Monica Pier. This special lighting event will take place on the evening of Friday, November 15 to Thursday, November 28. 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 Thanksgiving 2024

WHEN:
Friday, November 15 to Thursday, November 28
dusk (around 5 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. We installed the Pacific Wheel’s state-of-the-art lighting package in 2016.It can display over 1.6 million different colors and animate patterns and icons in 24 frames per second.

Solar arrays inside Pacific Park power the energy-efficient LEDs on the face of the Ferris wheel. Pacific Park staff  curate and designe the light programs. Because 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 @pam_susemiehl.