The abandoned Metro Detroit Asylum is now hosting a drive-thru Christmas light show

WESTLAND, MI – A popular Halloween attraction in the Detroit metro area has now been transformed into a Christmas light show for the holidays.

Eloise, 30712 Michigan Avenue in Westland, now has hundreds of thousands of lights synchronized to Christmas music in the parking lot.

The temporary attraction, called MI Bright Lights, began last week and will be open daily from 5 to 10 p.m. until January 5. Tickets are $20 per car. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit mibrightlights.com.

The drive-in light show features nearly a mile of Christmas lights, an ice skating rink (opening December 6th), a zipline, an inflatable mini-golf course, an interactive North Pole mailbox, s’mores, hot cocoa and much more. where children can take photos with Santa Claus.

There will also be a holiday drone show featuring 200 drones on Saturday, December 7th at 6:00 p.m. Admission to this show is free.

The new attraction is co-produced by the Bostick family, known for putting on a Christmas light show with musical choreography at their Garden City home each year.

“We used to have thousands of cars in front of our house every night and the traffic just became unmanageable. So we knew we had to have a bigger venue,” Kyle Bostick told WXYZ.

The psychiatric hospital was once one of the largest psychiatric facilities in the country, with a campus of more than 70 buildings, 2,000 employees and 10,000 patients. It closed in 1982 after most of the complex’s 75 buildings were destroyed in the mid-1980s.