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Festival of Lights Set to Start at Wheeling's Oglebay Park

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The annual Winter Festival of Lights at Wheeling’s Oglebay Park is set to get started.

The display kicks off Friday night and runs through Jan. 3. It can be viewed nightly until 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Five displays were shown in the festival’s first year in 1985. Now there are 80.

The 6-mile driving tour has views of displays spread across 300 acres.

Nightly trolley tours are offered beginning at Wilson Lodge.