Special Events

November 26 - December 31, 2008

Considered one of northeast Indiana's holiday traditions, Fantasy of Lights at Franke Park (Fort Wayne) delights the child in all of us. Fantasy of Lights is a drive-through event with more than 75 larger-than-life animated light displays depicting various scenes of the holidays.

 

$5 per car, $10 per passenger van/limousine, $25 bus/trolley

 

Enjoy the view from your vehicle or make it a special evening with a carriage or sleigh ride through the park.

 

Carriage Rides - $30 for up to 6 people; $60 for 7 - 15 people. Rides Friday, Saturday and Sundays.

 

Call Steve Cornelius at 260-691-3780 to make a carriage reservation.

 

Click here to see photos of the carriage and some of our most popular displays.

 

 

SDI Ride for Red Cedar
The SDI Ride began as a simple idea – ride across Indiana. Four steelworkers from Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI), who are avid cyclists, were looking for their very own Tour de France. Instead they came up with the Tour de Plants - a tour of all SDI plants throughout Indiana, on bicycle. This simple idea has transformed into a four-day, 350-mile ride to benefit Red Cedar. The ride begins in Jeffersonville, Indiana and ends in Butler and the route features stops at five SDI locations. Cyclists raise pledges for the number of miles ridden.

 

Anyone can join the ride for the last leg of the trip - a 42-mile stretch from Columbia City, Indiana to Butler, Indiana.

 

The SDI Tour de Plants has raised over $100,000 for Camp Red Cedar.

 

This year's ride raised over $30,000.