Valley Travelers

Valley Travelers

See the Lights at Oglebay Park
in West Virginia

Our triennial trip to the Holiday Festival of Lights at Oglebay Park in Wheeling, West Virginia is scheduled for Saturday, December 6th.

The Oglebay Winter Festival of Lights, begun in 1985, has grown into the nation’s largest holiday light show, attracting more than a million visitors per year, including 3,000 tour buses from more than 36 states. It covers more than three hundred acres over a six mile drive throughout the resort. More than 50 displays and over one million lights spread over 300 acres are featured in the celebration.

Original display favorites include a Candy Cane Wreath, The Twelve Days of Christmas and Willard the Snowman, named for the TV weatherman Willard Scott who “turned on” the lights in 1986. Other fun displays include steamships, fishermen, golfers, Cinderella and her coach, dinosaurs, and much, much more. This year’s display honors “Peanuts” creator Charles Schultz by representing some of his best-loved characters in lights. In addition to the Peanuts’ light displays, another new holiday light display will honor the 100th anniversary of the 4-H Clubs of America.

There is also a life-size Nativity scene and the elaborate decorations at Wilson Lodge. We have dinner reservations at the Wilson Lodge for 5:00 p.m. and a tour of the Festival of Lights set for 6:30 p.m.

Cost per person for the trip is $48. The price includes round trip transportation aboard a Deluxe Motor Coach, dinner at Wilson Lodge, tour of the Festival of Lights, taxes and gratuities.

The will be three pickup locations for the trip to Oglebay. One of the west side at the BRT Garage, and other on the East and West Sides. (See pickup locations below)

There will be a short rest stop on the way to Wheeling and we plan to arrive at the gift shop in Oglebay Park around 3:00p.m. for some shopping time before dinner.
The are 132 seats available. To make a reservation, click this link to obtain the form and complete it. Send it in with the proper amount to The Valley of Cleveland, 3615 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44115. Please be sure to mark the reservation form with your preferred pickup point.

Don’t be shut out. Make your reservation today.

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS PICKUP LOCATIONS

West Side
Kmart Plaza at Bagley Road in Middleburg Heights. in the small parking lot between BP and Burger King next to Bagley Road. Pickup time is 11:30 a.m.

East Side
Wilson Mills Road at Kohl’s / Home Depot Plaza. Park at Wilson Mills edge of Parking lot. Pickup time 11:45 a.m.

BRT Garage
At the bus garage on Snowville Road in Brecksville. Pickup time is 11:30 a.m.

Travelers are asked to be at their designated pickup point 15 minutes prior to the time listed above in order that the bus can maintain the schedule to get to Oglebay Park on time.

VALLEY TRAVELERS
2004 EXCURSION

Watch the January/February 2004 issue of the Scottish Rite News for important particulars on a deluxe tour to Washington, Baltimore, Annapolis, and the Delaware Valley including the WWII Memorial in July, 2004.