Ice Castles Review
Our Ice Castles Experience in New Hampshire - February 2015

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Ice Castles is an amazing place with unique designs.  The castles are totally built by hand, adding 5000 icicles each day by harvesting and sculpting them together.

Each completed Ice Castle offers 20,000,000 pounds of ice to explore.  You can walk, squeeze, slide and crawl!

VERMONT:
WHAT: Acre-sized, all-ice castle in Stratton, Vermont. One of four Ice Castles in America.
WHERE: Sun Bowl Lodge, Stratton Mountain Resort, Vermont 05360
WHEN: Opening day: Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015, 2-10 p.m.
Open thereafter through March 7, 2015 (weather permitting):
Sunday-Thursday: 2-9 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 2-10 p.m.
VISUALS: — Amazing ice features including archways, tunnels, slot canyons, ice slide, caverns, glacial waterfalls and a frozen throne.
— Kids and families squeezing, squishing, sliding, stomping and crawling through parts of the stunning, Narnia-like display.
— Natural frozen ice tones during the day; colorful LED-lit ice set to music at night.

 

UTAH:
WHAT: Acre-sized, all-ice castle in Midway, UT. One of four Ice Castles in America.
WHERE: 2002 Soldier Hollow Rd Midway, UT 84049 USA
WHEN:
Sunday-Thursday: 2-9 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 2-10 p.m.
VISUALS: — Amazing ice features including archways, tunnels, slot canyons, ice slide, caverns, glacial waterfalls and a frozen throne.
— Kids and families squeezing, squishing, sliding, stomping and crawling through parts of the stunning, Narnia-like display.
— Natural frozen ice tones during the day; colorful LED-lit ice set to music at night.

NEW HAMPSHIRE:
WHAT: Acre-sized, all-ice castle in Lincoln, NH. One of four Ice Castles in America.
WHERE: 64 Railroad St
Lincoln, NH 03521
WHEN:
Sunday-Thursday: 2-9 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 2-10 p.m.
VISUALS: — Amazing ice features including archways, tunnels, slot canyons, ice slide, caverns, glacial waterfalls and a frozen throne.
— Kids and families squeezing, squishing, sliding, stomping and crawling through parts of the stunning, Narnia-like display.
— Natural frozen ice tones during the day; colorful LED-lit ice set to music at night.

MINNESOTA:
WHAT: Acre-sized, all-ice castle in Eden Prairie, MN. One of four Ice Castles in America.
WHERE: 17970 East Miller Parkway
Eden Prairie, MN 55347 USA
WHEN: Through March 7
Sunday-Thursday: 2-9 p.m.
Friday-Saturday: 2-10 p.m.
VISUALS: — Amazing ice features including archways, tunnels, slot canyons, ice slide, caverns, glacial waterfalls and a frozen throne.
— Kids and families squeezing, squishing, sliding, stomping and crawling through parts of the stunning, Narnia-like display.
— Natural frozen ice tones during the day; colorful LED-lit ice set to music at night.

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WE had the opportunity to visit Ice Castles yesterday in New Hampshire.  The drive was spectacular - we just love driving up to the mountains.  It doesn't matter how often we go there, we are always left in awe of the natural beauty.  And every day the mountains look different - nothing is ever the same so how can it possibly get old.

The day was gorgeous - still quite cold but the sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky.  Of course that meant that Ice Castles was packed!  On our way up to New Hampshire from Connecticut we stopped at a rest area and ran into a couple from Massachusetts that was headed to the same place.  Remarkably, we ended up at the same restaurant, then at Ice Castles at the same time.  It was quite eery.  The restaurant we went to was actually quite out of the way and off the straight path to Ice Castles...  Yeah, that restaurant I will cover in a separate post.

Here are some photos from Ice Castles - absolutely stunning and really in a place like that it is difficult to take a poor picture.  We went during the day because we had a very long drive to get back home afterwards.  But the evening has lighting displays - next time will definitely need to be at night.