Winter Festivals

If you are visiting Toronto in the winter, you can join in the fun at one of these lively festivals.

Christmas and winter festivals, along with other winter events in Ohio, all contribute to the magical holiday season with spectacular holiday lights, great food and lots of holiday surprises.

This is an overview of the Winter Festival of Lights in Wheeling, West Virginia.

A brief overview of the 2010 LOTRO Winter Festival.

Each February Ely is home to the Ely Winter Festival, which began as a Nordic ski race and has grown to a 10-day festival celebrating history, art, and the great outdoors.

Houghton Lake, Michigan's Tip-Up-Town USA has been among the top 10 winter festivals in the United States for the past 20 years!

One of our least populous states, Maine still comes in among the winners when it comes to providing family fun. During the winter season New Englanders can enjoy "Vacationland" by arranging to participate in Winter Festivals in Maine,2009

Bordering Lake Michigan and brimming with acres of forests, streams and (frozen) lakes, Wisconsin hosts a number of fun, family-friendly winter festivals each year. Here's what to mark on your calendar in 2009.

The Flake Out Festival in Wisconsin Dells is a snowy celebration featuring snow sculpture competitions. The Saint Paul Winter Carnival is a spectacular ice carving competition in the Twin Cities of Minnesota.

A wonderful park that holds lots of seasonal events, incluidng a beautiful display of lights in Maryland near Washington, DC

This one of the most unusual of winter festivals, with things like ice carving on the beach and a polar plunge where they are expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000-4,000 participants.

For a sampling of such winter fare, consider the seasonal festivities in Argentina, Canada, Spain, and Alaska.

Winterlude, a winter festival held in Ottawa, Canada, celebrates Canada's climate and culture with winter fun on three consecutive weekends each February. From ice carving to a winter triathlon, there's fun for all.

The Carnaval de Quebec is the largest winter festival in the world, and a major source of income for the city. It has canoe and dogsled races, an ice palace, food galor, and fun for 17 straight days!

Check out the festivities in Albany, with the Hudson 400 Celebration of Discovery; the annual Saranac Lake Winter Carnival themed Pirates of the Adirondacks; the Niagara Wine Trail and the famous St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City.

The winter months in the rugged northeastern states are cold and snowy, but that does not deter people from some of the best known festivals in the country. Hardy people brave the elements to see creative artists and athletes