Colorado Youth Outdoors opens holiday light display

FORT  COLLINS — Colorado Youth Outdoors, a nonprofit that promotes outdoor recreation for youth and their parents, has opened its seasonal drive-thru light display.

The NoCo Winter Wonderland opened Thursday on the nonprofit’s 220-acre property at 4927 Larimer County Road 36, near the intersection of Larimer County Road 5 and Kechter Road on the southeast edge of Fort Collins.

The 15-minute tour features 22 moving-light displays, plus an additional 500,000 lights around the property. The light show is open 5:15 to 8:30 p.m., Thursdays through Sundays, from Nov.  27 through Dec. 14, and then nightly from Dec. 18-31.

“The magic of NoCo Winter Wonderland is the joy it brings to families,” CYO Fort Collins executive director Luke Brough said in a written statement. “It’s the same kind of joy we’re lucky to see every day at CYO when a child reels in their first fish or finally hits the bullseye.” 

Volunteers donated 1,500 hours to create and set up NoCo Winter Wonderland. Planning and design for the project began in June, and the installation process kicked off in September, when Chevron employees set up major lighting features. CYO volunteers work on Wednesdays through October and November to light trees and bushes around the property.

The 2025 tour includes three new animated features: a train engine, a car wash and an elf with his light display gone wrong.  

Tickets are now available from coloradoyo.org/events/ for $25 per vehicle.

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