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[ATTENDED: August 4, 2025] Chinese Lantern Festival

Last year I was driving near Franklin Square Park on my way somewhere else and I saw a huge Chinese Lantern Festival. I looked it up and thought it would be really fun to go to.  But it was just about to end, so we missed out.  Happily it returned this year and I grabbed us some tickets.

It was wonderful!

The entrance was a long walkway with lit lanterns strewn throughout.  We arrived before it got dark and it was delightful to see the park grow brighter as the sky darkened.

There were different areas throughout the park and the lanterns were thematic–underwater, pandas, zodiac and a giant dragon.

There was a lot of food to be had (we got some dumplings, my kids wanted to get cotton candy but the line was really long).  There were vendors selling interesting Chinese goods and there were more and more things to look at the more you walked around the park.

It was really cool to walk back through the archway on the way out when it was very dark out and the lanterns were very bright.

I’m not sure if we’ll go back next year, but it was a really fun evening.