

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Zoo Nights and Lights 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm – Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for the brightest event of the holiday season - Zoo Nights and Lights at the Gladys Porter Zoo, presented by McDonald's!

Take a stroll around the Zoo and take in all the beautiful light displays while sipping on hot chocolate and listening to the sounds of live Christmas music from local bands, choirs, and other performance groups from around the Valley! 

There will be fun kids' activities such as:
- Gingerbread cookie decorating
- Holiday craft
- Christmas karaoke
- Meet Santa Claus

Other activities include: 
- Arts and crafts show 
- Christmas Tree Lane (Vote for your favorite Christmas tree) 

Tickets are on sale now at www.gpz.org for $5 per person.
Bring a new, unwrapped toy (minimum $5 value) for the RGV Food Bank and gain one free entry to the event.

Zoo Members get FREE entry to this event and can pick up their tickets in the membership office.

Thank you to our sponsors: McDonald's, H-E-B Helping Here,  Chick-fil-A, Brownsville Public Utilities Board, Next Decade, Visit Brownsville, City of Brownsville, CBS 4 News, KVEO Local 23 News,  and Digital 101.5.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brownsville/zoo-nights-and-lights/200029200588824
- **Event Categories**: christmas, music, entertainment, kids, holiday, food-drinks, christmas-markets-and-fairs, karaoke
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1165

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://gladysporterzoo.org/?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=brownsville-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Brownsville
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 500 Ringgold St, Brownsville, TX, United States, Texas 78520
- **lat**: 25.91334
- **long**: -97.49546
- **full address**: 500 Ringgold St, Brownsville, TX, United States, Texas 78520

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Gladys Porter Zoo (https://allevents.in/org/gladys-porter-zoo/26243491)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 500 Ringgold St, Brownsville, TX, United States, Texas 78520
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Gladys Porter Zoo
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** christmas, music, entertainment, kids, holiday, food-drinks, christmas-markets-and-fairs, karaoke
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Zoo Nights and Lights  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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