Lake Superior Ice Festival

Area businesses and community organizations have turned "The Iceman" Roger Hanson's Ice Project into a full-blown festival called the Lake Superior Ice Festival. It starts Saturday, Feb. 20, and runs through Saturday, Feb. 27, with a variety of free events on both Saturdays, including children's story time, photo opportunities with ice princesses, bonfires and s'mores, a live radio broadcast and fireworks over Iceman Roger's Ice Project. The festival also includes a local arts and crafts fair, local food trucks and other events during the week. The festival grounds are on Barker’s Island and the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) building is being used for event space and a warming house. The city of Superior invited the Minnesota artist Roger Hanson to undertake the monumental task of creating the world’s largest ice sculpture at Festival Park on Barker’s Island. He intends to create a soaring 70-foot-high ice sculpture, which is nearly seven stories high or three times the depth of the adjacent SS Meteor. www.lakesuperioricefestival.com. Various times for different events.