Pacific Park To Display Red, White, and Blue on Its Ferris Wheel For Veterans Day
If you visit the beach in Santa Monica this weekend, you will be treated to a special red, white, and blue light show on the Pacific Wheel in honor of Veterans Day and all that have served our country. The Ferris wheel’s 174K LEDs will be lit in the United States’ flag colors, along with showing special icons on the Wheel including the U.S. flag itself and icons that represent all 5-armed service seals.
This special lighting event will take place on Friday, November 9th, Sunday, November 10th and Monday, November 11th. The lights can be seen from dusk until 11:30 PM each evening. If you are unable to make it out to the Santa Monica Pier this week, you can always view the Wheel’s light programs on our live-streaming web cams.
Pacific Park regularly programs the Ferris wheel to display seasonal programing and themed light designs for holidays and special occasions. The Pacific Wheel’s state-of-the-art lighting package was installed in 2016 and can display over 1.6 million different colors and animate patterns and icons in 24 frames per second. The energy efficient LEDs on the face of the Ferris wheel are powered by solar arrays inside Pacific Park. The light programs are curated and designed by Pacific Park staff. Each design is manually animated; some designs can take hours of programming. The aim is to provide fun, high-energy, and sometimes whimsical designs to entertain guests on the Santa Monica Pier and surrounding beaches.
The Ferris wheel’s light programs can be seen nightly lighting the waters around the Santa Monica Pier and are regularly featured in news broadcasts across the country. Pacific Park accepts special lighting requests from the public as part of a sponsorship arrangement with the Park. Because of the large volume of these requests, not all submissions can be met, and the Park no longer offers pro bono lighting requests. To learn more about these and other opportunities to partner with Pacific Park, please visit dev.pacpark.enki.tech/sponsorships.