The Minnesota Ice Festival has announced the winners of its 2025 Carver Cup, a new competition among ice carvers from around the world. This year’s event, at TCO Stadium in Vikings Lakes in ...

I can walk to this outdoor museum and observe sculptures I’d never see in spring and summer, and sometimes even free music is provided.

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Then there are the large-scale versions that are made for the St. Paul Winter Carnival ice-sculpture contest. So where the heck does all that ice come from? Some people think that blocks of ice ...

drawing international ice sculptors and local spectators alike. Despite the 14-degree evening chill, visitors shuffled through the packed parking lot, bundled in thick parkas, their faces ...

The two-day event doesn't just feature ice sculptures and live carvings. They also have children's activities, a chili cook-off, a hot dog eating contest, a cupcake icing contest, and basket raffles.

The weekend will feature “staple” Winter Carnival events, such as the annual Polar Bear Plunge — which will be named the “Prehistoric Plunge,” according to the Winter Carnival website — at Occom Pond ...

Going into the competition, Rand said he was nervous when seeing the list of competitor names. Many competitive ice sculptors know one another and each of the competitors is talented and has a ...