Luminary Night | Christmas Carriage Rides

Luminary Night* / Christmas in the Park & Carriage Rides**

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Beginning at 5:00pm

This is a magical night for viewing your city streets lit up with luminaries, and participate in festivities to celebrate the season. As luminaries line our charming streets, we share joy with our annual Christmas in the Park. Come together with neighbors and friends on a night filled with carolers, carriage rides, local vendors, and more. We look forward, and also to bringing back photos with Santa this year! Luminaries begin at 5:00pm. Festivities in Trolley Park and carriage rides begin at 6:00pm.

• Luminary Kits can be purchashed online this year, beginning Sunday, November 17th. You may also order via the order form below. Street Captains will be available to help you. A Street Captain is a volunteer near you who has offered to help distribute luminaries on your block. For more information about Luminary Night, please contact the Avant Gardners, c/o Carol Bethel, clbethel@fuse.net. *This is a fundraiser brought to you by and for the Park Hills Avant Gardeners, who tend to the city’s beautiful gardens all year.
• Carriage Rides are available for purchase Sunday, November 17, 2024. Space is limited. No refunds.
• More details on Christmas in the Park to come as we get closer to the event date. **Carriage Rides and Christmas in the Park are brought to you by Park Hills Civic Association.

Luminary Kit Order Form

Each kit contains 12 bags and 12 battery tea lights or flame tea lights. Luminary kits will be provided in 3 forms: (1) battery tea lights with plain white bags, (2) battery tea lights with a decorative star cutout of the white bags, (3) flame tea lights with plain white bags. No kitty litter is provided. Sand will be availavle on some streets. Note: the battery lights can be used multiple years as the battery life is 150+ hours. All proceeds benefit the beautification efforts of Park Hills. Click the button below to see image of various kits and to purchase.

Luminary Kit Pick-Up

Contact Carol Bethel at 513-314-3437 or by email at clbethel@fuse.net

1045 Jackson Rd.

Carriage Ride Reservations

All reservations previously purchased will be honored at the same time. If you need to change or cancel your reservation, please contact us via email at leadership@phcahub.org and we will do our best to accomodate your request or issue a full refund. 

There are still seats available! If you have not purchased your reservation yet, you may do so now.

Carriage Rides are from 6-9pm with rides every 20 min (last reservation is at 8:40pm). Reservations are $10 per person (children under 2 are free). We cannot oversell the carriages due to weight restrictions for the horses, so please make sure you purchase a ticket for every rider. 

Please check-in with a member of the Civic Association at the Lady of Lourdes Church on Amsterdam Rd. at least 5 minutes prior to your reservation. 

Christmas in the Park

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be visiting with residents young and old from 6-8pm in Trolley Park. Stop by to tell them your Christmas wish list and grab a cookie and hot chocolate as well!

The Trolley Park Tree Lighting will take place at 5:30pm to kick off the evening.

We hope you will stop by and take in all the sights and sounds of Christmas in the Park!