Riverbanks Lights Before Christmas 2024 Tacoma. After over three decades of the lights before christmas celebration at the zoo & garden, riverbanks switched things up with the 1st annual wild lights holiday experience. A festival of light art & sound, on view nightly in downtown tacoma.

Here is a roundup of the best holiday light displays to see before christmas, including the zoolights, tacoma light trail, residential homes Riverbanks zoo spokesman matt perron says that the traditional “lights before christmas” returns, but with a new name and new concept.