Stillwater Home To Four Ice Sculptures, Part Of Area-Wide Event

STILLWATER, MN —The city has revealed on Facebook that four ice sculptures are located around town as part of an area-wide event called The Ice Sculpture Exploration.

Lasting until Feb. 28, the event involves more than 25 ice sculptures that have been placed throughout the greater Twin Cities, at local businesses, parks and in neighborhoods. The sculptures are between three and eight feet tall and wide and depict many different subjects.

The event is sponsored by GetKnit Events and Minnesota Ice. Tickets can be purchased online for $19 and come with a treasure map, which helps participants find the sculptures, along with history and fun facts about the sculptures and their location. The tickets also qualify participants for prizes and feature deals at select ice sculpture host businesses, like drink discounts and free fries and cookies with other purchases.

Contest organizers invite explorers to "go dusk until dawn" and visit all 25-plus sculptures in one epic day. They also encourage the 21-and-over crowd, along with people in their pandemic pod, to visit eateries and drinkeries that are hosting sculptures. Or, they say, visit a few sculptures a day during the course of the event.

DO go chasing waterfalls! #IceSculptureExploration https://t.co/m2XNvZEbA0
— GetKnit Events (@GetKnitEvents) February 20, 2021

It’s a beautiful day to get outside and explore! #IceSculptureExploration pic.twitter.com/v8eCcPKMke
— GetKnit Events (@GetKnitEvents) February 20, 2021

There is nothing more Minnesotan than ice sculptures. Go ahead, prove us wrong:@GetKnitEvents #minnesotaice #icesculptureexplorationhttps://t.co/K6lrixzgXd pic.twitter.com/oTWcwwYDx8
— Sociable Cider Werks (@SociableCider) February 19, 2021