Families enjoy a ride on the Holiday Light Festival Train in Griffith Park
The popular miniature train in Griffith Park was filled with passengers enjoying the popular tour of holiday lights. The Griffith Park Holiday Light Festival Train has been drawing in families for decades, taking visitors on a mile-long ride past scenes made of thousands of lights.
The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad trains are 1/4th and 1/3rd scale models of actual locomotives and passenger cars that carry nearly 500,000 passengers every year.
Passengers are surrounded by lights on a tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A festive greeting on the tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Passengers line for for tickets to the tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Passengers are surrounded by lights on a tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Passengers are surrounded by lights on a tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Passengers pass by a life-size gingerbread house on the tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
A giant Santa greets passengers on the tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
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Passengers are surrounded by lights on a tour of holiday lights on Tuesday, December 30, 2025. The Griffith Park & Southern Railroad, transformed into festive scenes with thousands of lights will run through January 11. The Holiday train rides begin at 5pm daily. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
The track travels over several bridges, including a 60-foot-long wood and steel box girder bridge. Passengers pass characters including gingerbread cookies standing in the front of their gingerbread home, and a giant Santa Claus holding a present with a red bow.
The rides begin at 5 pm daily for $8, and babies 18 months and younger go for free. The event will run through January 11.
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