There's nothing better than skiing (or snowshoeing or hiking) through a twinkling forest or across a luminary-lined lake. There's usually a bonfire and hot chocolate to enjoy afterward.
There's a snow sculpting contest, an arts walk, music, a candlelight ski and snowshoe tours to Sigurd Olson's Listening Point.
This northwoods festival, named for the Scandinavian concept of winter coziness, features a tour of great fireplaces, romantic sleigh rides, guided waterfall hikes and live music.
This festival shows a large selection of documentaries specializing in adventure, extreme sports and environmental issues.
Watch ice-climbing demos, slide shows and professional climbers and take clinics for beginners at spectacular Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior.
This festival features such events as ice golf, a Freeze Your Buns run, a snowshoe hike in Tamarac Wildlife Refuge and kite-flying, with professional giant-kite flyers, kite decorating and prizes for amateurs.
This Brainerd Lakes town celebrates with smoosh racing, competitions in snow sculpting, nail driving, ice fishing and wood splitting, and a Saturday parade.
Ice and snow sculptors create pieces around town. There's a novice category for beginners. On Friday, there will be a candlelight ski/hike at Big Creek Nature Preserve, and on Saturday, there will be fireworks.
More than 200 bands play at more than 20 venues around Red Wing. Musicians include Dessa, Ultrabomb and Jeremy Messersmith.
This festival just north of Milwaukee features barrel and bed races, ice-carving, camel rides, a dog weight pull competition, an egg hunt for kids and a parade at 1 p.m. Saturday.
There's no vehicle-entry fee in Michigan state parks this weekend, and Saturday and Sunday also is Free Fishing Weekend.
Ski or snowshoe across Lake Superior's Chequamegon Bay on a 10-kilometer loop lined by ice luminaries, snow sculptures and bonfires. Back in Ashland, there's a chili feed and music afterward.
This town in north-central Iowa draws kiters from eight states for its festival, the largest in the Midwest, and stunt fliers will perform routines choreographed to music.
In this small town north of Cable, watch people careen down a hill on decorated bar stools, then stay for the chili feed.
On the snowy northeast edge of Wisconsin, go on horse-drawn sleigh rides and see such events as recliner racing, ice bowling, giant-ski races and pin-the-nose-on-the-snowman.
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