What’s new this year? “We have a dollhouse village of 24 one-inch-scale houses, and we’ve also added 21 new buildings to the train setup, as well as another locomotive and a trolley car,” Hanzon begins. From there, it’s hard to get him to stop: “There’s a luminous garden — my attempt at a black-light garden — and dripping Avatar-esque trees. There’s an inflatable garden of giant toys, and the horse trail has a bunch of new stuff to see along the way, including animation and motion sensors. We put in a new fountain and tweaked the holiday house, and the tree at the end of trail — I call it the Glorioso — is now just crazy, lit up with hundreds of yellow and red LED lights.” Ooh. Aah.
Hudson Holiday is open from 5 to 9 p.m. nightly through January 2; admission at the gate is $6 to $9 (free for children ages three and under). Hudson Gardens is located at 6115 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton; find more information at www.hudsonholiday.com.
Dec. 1-Jan. 2, 5-9 p.m., 2010
