Winterfest Celebrations

Getting together in the great outdoors

One of winter's signature events across interior Alaska, the 13th-annual Winterfest, is set for Wednesday, Feb 20 through Sunday, Feb 24, 2013.

Locations for festivities include:

• Tri-Valley Community Center Mile 248.8 Parks Highway
• McKinley Park Community Center Mile 230 Parks Highway
  
• Murie Science and Learning Center Mile 1.5 Denali Park Road, off Mile 237.5 Parks Highway

 

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Winterfest 2013 Schedule

Wednesday, 2/20

Tri-Valley School Multipurpose Room
400 Suntrana Road, Healy

• 6:30 pm
  Variety show: students and community members share their musical talents

Friday, 2/22

Tri-Valley Community Center
Mile 248.8 Parks Highway, Healy

• 9 am - 4 pm
  Winterfest masterpiece sculpted in ice by Larry Moen

McKinley Park Community Center
Mile 230 Parks Highway, McKinley Park

Official Winterfest opening event

• 6:30 pm
  Dessert Potluck

• 7 pm
  Special Speaker Kristin Timm
  Crossing the Juneau Icefield
  Last summer, researchers and students trekked across the Juneau Icefield as a part of the Juneau Icefield Research Program. Local adventurer and former UAF graduate student Kristin Timm shares her adventures from the Western Hemisphere's fifth largest icefield.

Saturday, 2/23

Murie Science and Learning Center, Denali NPP
Mile 1.5 Denali Park Road, off Mile 237.5 Parks Highway

• 8 - 10 am
  Ranger-led snowshoe hike

• 10 - 11 am
  Screening independent films that were featured in the Far North Conservation Film Festival

• 11 - 11:45 am
  Be a Freeze-ologist: Join us for three "just for kids" experiments involving ice

• 11 am - 12 pm
  Museum Collection table: Explore a sample of objects from the Denali Museum with Museum Technician Kim Arthur
  
  
• 11 am - 3 pm
  Snow sculpting contest: Judging begins at 3 pm
  

• 11 am - 4 pm
  Snacks, lunch, and refreshments sposored by Doyon/ARAMARK Joint Venture
  Winterfest masterpiece sculpted in ice by Larry Moen
  Story Trail: Winter Poetry
  Winter Nature Scavenger Hunt
  

• 11:30 am - 2 pm
  Meet Denali's sled dogs

• 12 - 1 pm
  Let the Games Begin
  Kids, join us outside the MSLC to test your animal instincts to survive in our outdoor obstacle course
  

• 1 - 3 pm
  Ranger-led snowshoe hike
  

• 1:15 - 2 pm
  Weather Whiz Kids: Join us for three "just for kids" activities involving clouds
  

Denali NPP Headquarters
Mile 3.1 Denali Park Road

• 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
  5k family Fun Run, or walk, or bike, or ski, or skijor, or snowshoe on the Park Road. Meet at the flagpole.
  

The Ice Pit, adjacent to the Tri-Valley Community Center
Mile 248.8 Parks Highway, Healy

• 4 pm
  Coal Queens hockey

Tri-Valley Community Center
Mile 248.8 Parks Highway, Healy

• 5 pm - 7 pm
  Community chili feed: Food prepared and served by students at Denali Borough School District, donations from Princess, Doyon/ARAMARK

• 7 pm - 10 pm
  Live bands perform:
  Welch, Shaw, Hassett and Brown
  Peyton Meredith and The Usual Suspects
  New Cut Road
  

Sunday, 2/24

Murie Science and Learning Center, Denali NPP
Mile 1.5 Denali Park Road, off Mile 237.5 Parks Highway

• 1 pm - 3 pm
  Ranger-led snowshoe hike

 

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  Winterfest Photo Gallery

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  Photographs of Winterfest Activities