{"id":61328,"date":"2025-12-15T13:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61328\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:20:09","slug":"oh-what-a-sight-its-presque-isle-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61328\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, What a Sight \u2013 It&#8217;s Presque Isle Lights!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eriereader.com\/image\/scale\/auto\/auto\/articles\/550410_spotlight-25.12.12-presque-isle-lights-copy.jpg\" class=\"lightbox_img\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/550410_spotlight-25.12.12-presque-isle-lights-copy.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contributed<\/p>\n<p>The Presque Isle Partnership invites Erieites to take a festive drive around the peninsula this holiday season to enjoy their fifth annual installation of Presque Isle Lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">CONTINUING FRIDAY, DEC. 12<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">This holiday season, pack everyone in the car and bring the whole crew down to Presque Isle to enjoy the park after dark with Presque Isle Lights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Now in its fifth year, the park is updating their light displays for 2025 to pack a bigger punch. Since weather can play such a big part in accessibility on the roads, the drive through the park will look a bit different this year. &#8220;We decided to condense all of the lights and displays to the front side of the peninsula,&#8221; said Jon DeMarco, executive director of Presque Isle Partnership. &#8220;This creates a brighter, more concentrated experience and helps ensure the displays remain accessible throughout the month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Rather than circling the entire peninsula, the tour route will now turn around at the Duck Pond crossover near Beach 8, where the road forms a Y. However, visitors are still welcome to access the whole park, as the Presque Isle Lighthouse (which is not located on the official tour route) will also be decorated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The event is free to the public, but donations are welcome to help support the park&#8217;s year-round efforts. Donations can be made at the Cookhouse Pavilion parking lot, located in the Waterworks Area. For each $5 donation, visitors will receive a commemorative Presque Isle Lights button and they can register for a chance to win a $1,000 Country Fair gas card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The magic of the lights and displays is second only to the magic of those who help make the event possible: &#8220;Presque Isle Lights is completely volunteer-driven, and our volunteers take tremendous pride in bringing it all together,&#8221; said DeMarco. &#8220;I really enjoy the time spent outdoors with them \u2013 we share a lot of laughs, get plenty of fresh air, and it&#8217;s a great reminder of how much community spirit goes into making this happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Dusk to 9 p.m., Friday, Dec. 5 through Sunday, Dec. 28 \/\/ Free to public, donations welcome \/\/ For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverpi.com\/events\/presque-isle-lights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">discoverpi.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Contributed The Presque Isle Partnership invites Erieites to take a festive drive around the peninsula this holiday season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,26966,33081],"class_list":{"0":"post-61328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-presque-isle-lights","12":"tag-presque-isle-partnership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}