This outdoor festival around Rice Park downtown features ice carving, parades, scavenger hunts, pop-up outdoor concerts, ice-fishing and softball and puzzle tournaments.
On Barker's Island, there's a snow slide, ice carving, disc golf, ice racing, kids' activities and fireworks on Saturday.
Time to pack on the calories: More than 470 restaurants offer three-course prix-fixe menus for $30 at brunch or lunch and $45 or $60 at dinner.
In this lake town, there's music, magic shows, a human sled-dog race, a cocoa crawl, ice bars and an ice castle, plus the U.S. snow-sculpting championship.
The 1993 movie "Groundhog Day'' was filmed in this town an hour northwest of Chicago, and it celebrates with trivia, a bags tourney, bingo, pub crawl and walking tours of movie sites, including the 1889 Opera House, where actor Bill Murray jumped from the belfry. At 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 2, Woodstock Willie will look for his shadow.
The Surf Ballroom marks the anniversary of the 1959 plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, with concerts, luncheons, dance lessons and crash-site tours.
There's an ice-carving competition in this Lake Michigan town, plus a chili cook-off. curling lessons, frozen-fish fling, cardboard-sled race and pub slide.
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.
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