Holiday in Lights

Santa's Take-Off -- over 60 feet long!

Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
November 23th through December 31st

Call (952) 492-2785 for reservations

Enjoy our Holiday Dinner Buffet and Dessert Table by the warm stone fireplaces in our rustic Apple Lodge with live musical entertainment. After eating, bundle up and board a tractor-drawn wagon for your ride through the lights.

Reservations are recommended, but we don't take your credit card or any payment until you actually get here, so there can be no cancellation fee if you can't make it.

For all arrival times before 7:30 pm, you'll eat first and ride after dinner. For arrival times from 7:30 pm and later, you may ride first and eat afterwards, which allows you to stay longer to enjoy the fireplaces and the music.

The orchard is off the highway, up on a hill, and back in the woods. There's a special feeling just being here at night. Tractor-drawn wagons (on tires, not sleigh runners) carry up to 25 blanket-wrapped passengers at a time on a half-hour trip through the orchard on a winding trail dotted with silhouette displays of numerous Christmas themes including our own cartoon 'Vutches,' who are friendly, hard-working vultures who do all sorts of orchard work, such as picking apples, driving tractors, and making apple pies. The Vutches are characters in books by Topper Sponsel (writing under the pen name Christopper T. Hill) and artist Brad Berggren, including McWaker McGill and Dimes Times Dimes. Everybody loves Vutches!

The Holiday in Lights display at Minnesota Harvest is not Holidazzle. There aren't two million lights. It's quaint and simple, neither the most nor the brightest. It's a pleasant, quiet, tractor-drawn passage with dozens of points of interest. The driver's comments are entertaining, and you and your fellow wagon-riders will add many of your own, making each trip a special, one-time event.

Indoors, five adjoining lodge-style seating areas encircle four stone fireplaces, providing a warm and glowing dinner experience. The buffet is very much home-style (not fancy or elegant, but great-tasting) with plenty of choices, including roasted whole turkey, baked whole maple-roasted ham, lots of other hot dishes and sides, plus salads and a generous dessert table offering holiday treats as well as the apple specialties for which the orchard bakery is well-known.

Each evening, a musical guest will entertain while you enjoy your Holiday Buffet dinner

Santa Claus has been known to drop in (but he's been using the doors, we're guessing, because the fireplaces have been burning day and night). He gets around to the tables to greet and visit with all of the youngsters and even some of the oldsters.

We have been in touch with the North Pole and Santa will be stopping in on Friday November 23rd and Saturday December 15.  We are checking with Mrs. Claus to see if we can get Santa to visit a couple more times.

All in all, it's a relaxing holiday evening for everyone, appropriate for couples, families, and small or large groups. It's a nice place to be.

Other Winter-long activities:
Horseback Trail Riding, the Apple Sales Room and Bakery are open daily 7 days a week from 9:00 am.

	MMM -- Great tasting desserts to go along with those great festival lights!