OTHER TOP 10 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE EVENTS
• National Christmas Tree Lighting, President’s Park, on the White House grounds. (Today.)
• Luminaria lighting, Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.: Small paper lanterns decorate a cliff dwelling built by the ancestral Pueblo people. (Dec. 10.)
• Cave Sing, Mammoth Cave National Park, Ky.: In 1883, local residents held the first Christmas celebration in the world’s longest cave system. (Dec. 6.)
• Raft with Santa, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Ariz.: Passengers join Santa on a trip down the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, below Hoover Dam. (Dec. 24.)
• Victorian Christmas, Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, Buffalo, N.Y.: It’s where President Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated in 1901 after the assassination of President William McKinley. (Friday through Dec. 12.)
• Solstice Star Gazing, Pinnacles National Park, Paicines, Calif.: It’s on one of the darkest nights of the year in one of California’s darkest spots, at Bear Gulch Reservoir. (Dec. 22.)
• Wreath laying, Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia: A national cemetery at the site of a notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp will participate in national Wreaths Across America Day. (Dec. 12.)
• Prairie Cultures Festival, Homestead National Monument, Beatrice, Neb.: The Homestead Act of 1862 opened huge swaths of federal land to new immigrants — and their holiday traditions. (Through Jan. 3.)
• Polar Express, Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio: The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad trip includes a reading of the storybook that inspired the hit holiday movie. (Through Dec. 20.)
