The Dillon Ice Castles are open just in time for Christmas.
About five weeks ago, professional ice artisans started growing and harvesting up to 10,000 icicles each day to create the life-size fairytale playgrounds.
The Dillon Ice Castles location features ice-carved tunnels, fountains, slides, frozen thrones, and towers that reach up to 40 feet high. LED lights frozen inside 25 million pounds of ice twinkle to music at night.
General admission tickets are $15.95 during the week and $18.95 on weekends.
Ice Castles
There was concern that a park renovation could force the Ice Castles to move, however, in August the Town Council approved a lease to allow them to locate at the Town Park once again this season. In its decision to the bring the Ice Castles back, town council members said, "the Town Center business community consistently shared that their businesses were up due to the Ice Castle attraction."
Last year was the inaugural year for the Dillon Ice Castles. Kerstin Anderson, the director of marketing and communications for the Town of Dillon told 9NEWS the town invested $50,000 into the project, which created an uptick in business for the bowling alley and all six restaurants in the town.