In 2016, the castle walls were finished, and the main house was built up to the 2nd floor, followed by the completion of the main house roof and the 7th-floor spiral staircase tower in 2018.

Ice Castles under construction in Dillon in 2020. Ice artisans spend around six weeks placing up to 10,000 icicles each day to create the bigger-than-life size winter fairytale built entirely from ...

For the past five years, Ice Castles has been a Lake Geneva winter tradition. The castles are built out of hundreds of thousands of icicles that create walls, towers, tunnels and even slides for ...

Reservations for the ice castles can be made at IceCastles.com . This story previously published in the winter 2020-21 edition of Explore Breckenridge & Summit County magazine .

The craftsmen at Ice Castles will spend thousands of hours in Charles R. Wood Park this fall and winter, growing between 5,000 and 12,000 icicles that will be hand-harvested and sculpted, added to ...

"We hand place each icicle until it forms with the one next to it. And eventually, we'll have 20-foot-high walls," explained Kail Hanrahan, the Event Manager for the Ice Castles Colorado location.

The Ice Castles organization creates five ice structures across the U.S. for the public to visit, including one in Lake George, New York and one in North Woodstock, New Hampshire, both of which ...

But because of an uneven winter this year, one Rocky Mountain town is having to work extra hard to keep its ice castles, well, icy. Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce has this postcard.

At the winter carnival, the ice palace is the pièce de résistance, erected on the shore of Lake Flower’s Pontiac Bay and built similarly as it was in 1897, the first year the palace revealed ...