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Cincinnati Zoo needs votes to be #1 in USA Today’s 10Best Zoo Lights

Updated 12/11/15

CINCINNATI – (November 24, 2015) Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s PNC Festival of Lights has been nominated for USA Today’s 2015 10Best Readers’ Choice Award for Best Zoo Lights. Please help us win top honors by voting (once a day until December 21) for Cincinnati Zoo!!
Click here to vote.

            Cincinnati Zoo is asking Cincinnatians to rally around their Zoo by voting and asking friends to vote. If you’ve been to PNC Festival of Lights, you’ll feel good about helping Cincinnati Zoo stay on top of the list below.

            Here are the rankings as they stand on 12/11/15:

• Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo – Cincinnati
• Lights Before Christmas at the Toledo Zoo – Toledo, Ohio
• Wild Lights at the Detroit Zoo – Detroit
• Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo – Columbus, Ohio
• Zoo Lights at the Memphis Zoo – Memphis
• Christmas at the Indianapolis Zoo – Indianapolis
• ZooLights at the Phoenix Zoo – Phoenix
• Wild Lights at the St. Louis Zoo – St. Louis
• L.A. Zoo Lights at the Los Angeles Zoo – Los Angeles
• Zoolights at Point Defiance Zoo – Tacoma, Wash.
• Lights Before Christmas at the Riverbanks Zoo – Columbia, S.C.
• ZooLights at the Lincoln Park Zoo – Chicago
• Zoo Lights at the Houston Zoo – Houston
• ZooLights at the Oakland Zoo – Oakland
• Jungle Bells at the San Diego Zoo – San Diego
• ZooLights at the Oregon Zoo – Portland, Ore.
• ZOOLights at the Jacksonville Zoo – Jacksonville
• WildLights at the Woodland Park Zoo – Seattle
• ZooLights at the Smithsonian National Zoo – Washington, D.C.
• Zoo Lights at the Denver Zoo – Denver

See the (Best) Lights! Celebrate 33 years of family fun and tradition at the Cincinnati Zoo’s PNC Festival of Lights.  The PNC Festival of Lights is open 5 – 9 p.m. Sundays through Thursdays and 5 – 10 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through January 2, 2016, except on Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day.