One private carriage
Your booking reserves the whole carriage. Four seated riders fit the standard arrangement; the approved two-rider/three-child combination and lap-child limits are explained below.
From your car to the carriage.
Get ready for your private FairGlow ride in Mendon, Illinois. Lincoln Park Lights will have its own provider and arrival information when that location is announced.
FairGlow · Confirmed evenings
Your carriage. Your Christmas evening.
$69.00 per private carriage. Includes the $65.00 ride and $4.00 booking fee, with no tax, before optional protection. Display admission and priority entry are included.
November 28; December 17–20, 24–27 and 31, 2026.
Additional early-December evenings may be announced. Departures run every 30 minutes from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m. Central; arrive 15 minutes before your reserved departure.
FairGlow reservations are open. Choose your party and departure to reserve the whole carriage. Review the published seating and booking terms before reserving. Priority entry bypasses the regular vehicle line. Allow time for boarding and traffic.
Know before you go.
About 15–20 minutes
FairGlow’s approximately one-mile carriage journey includes the full half-mile light display and the connections to and from parking. Display traffic can affect the finish time.
Arrive 15 minutes early
Have your whole party ready at boarding 15 minutes before departure. Scheduled departures run every half hour from 5:00 to 8:30 p.m. Central, with no scheduled break.
Admission & priority entry included
The carriage bypasses the regular vehicle line using its express approach. Admission covers the carriage journey; a separate visit in your own vehicle is not included. Allow time for boarding and traffic within the lights.
FairGlow · Mendon, Illinois
Park once. Enjoy the lights by carriage.
Use the same south parking area as FairGlow’s Glow Walk. Follow event signs and staff to carriage boarding. The carriage takes the west approach to the display entrance, travels the full display and returns along the south side to the same lot. The complete ride is about one mile. Follow event signs and staff for vehicle access and the boarding position.
See the parking area and carriage route.
The map follows the west-side carriage approach, the full display route and the south-side return to the shared Glow Walk lot. Numbered stages show the journey in order.
Map positions are approximate area references, rather than an exact driveway or boarding GPS pin. Follow event signs and staff on arrival.
Open the FairGlow arrival mapAdams County Fairgrounds
2010 E. 1250th St.Mendon, Illinois 62351
This address identifies the fairgrounds. Use event signs and staff for the shared south parking area and carriage boarding; the address is not a precise boarding pin.
Leave a little time to arrive.
Allow time to park and have everyone at boarding 15 minutes early. Late arrivals do not delay later rides.
Dress for an outdoor carriage ride. Blankets and refreshments are not confirmed inclusions. Leave food, drinks and other items in your vehicle unless the provider approves bringing them.
Choose a party that fits.
Count each seated rider age 12 or older in the first column, and each seated child under 12 in the second. At least one responsible adult age 18 or older must ride.
| Riders age 12+ | Seated children under 12 | Additional lap children |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 0 | Up to 2 |
| 3 | 1 | Up to 2 |
| 2 | 3 | Up to 1 |
| 1 | 3 | Up to 1 |
Lap children must be age 2 or under. Each must stay on the lap of a different accompanying adult age 18 or older for the entire ride. There may be no more than one lap child per adult, two lap children overall and six people in the carriage in total. The only five-seat combination is two riders age 12+ with three seated children under 12.
A child age 2 or under who uses a seat counts as a seated child. Ages apply on your ride date. Enter accurate party counts and review the seating declaration before booking.
Contact support before booking if anyone needs special boarding assistance or has a mobility-device requirement. Boarding assistance, steps and device accommodation must be confirmed for your party; accessible boarding or a weight capacity is not guaranteed here.
If a party meets the published limits but the provider cannot board it safely, the operator replacement/refund terms apply. An unpublished weight or boarding restriction is not treated as a customer forfeiture.
Ask about boarding before bookingAnother evening in the making.
Lincoln Park Lights is a future carriage location with a separate provider. Its dates, fare, seating and boarding arrangements will be announced separately.
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