Chinook Days Winter Festival
The Chinook Days Winter Festival occurs every January in Spearfish, South Dakota. The festival highlights the city’s world record temperature change of 49 degrees in two minutes. On January 22, 1943, around 7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature rose from -4 degrees to 45 degrees above zero. The world record still holds today. The celebration is a week long event of pub crawls, snow sculptures, winter games, fat bike rides, snowshoe tours, soup feeds, live music, bonfires, a beer fest, and fireworks. We partook in the Chinook Days bonfire and fireworks and it cost us only $5.00 a person. There were food trucks on site, and two good bands. The many burn barrels throughout the setting were great because it was extremely cold. The beer fest looked really nice with samplings from over 14 craft beer makers. We will definitely come back again next year.
The fish all set up to burn later.
The beer tent with lots of local breweries.
The table decorations.
The food trucks.
One of the bands.
Things to do - carve ice sculptures.
Free marsh mellows to cook.
It is cold out here.
Getting close to burning time.
Another band.
Got the marching band, the bathrooms, and the fireman - anything you may need.
Just about time.
The fish is lit.
The fireworks begin.
