Photo of the day: Midway Ice Castles a frozen treat

Teryn Jensen, heart, explores an ice tunnel together with her youngsters, Austin and Olivia Jensen, on the Halfway Ice Castles in Halfway on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022.

Mengshin Lin, Deseret Information

The Ice Castles in Halfway, a well-liked expertise for Utahns for the previous decade, opened Friday to the delight of followers.

Ice artisans labored across the clock to get the attraction at Soldier Hole Nordic Heart prepared for Friday’s grand opening. The interactive expertise options ice-carved tunnels, fountains, slides, frozen thrones and cascading towers of ice embedded with color-changing LED lights.

Artisans spend about eight weeks rising, harvesting and hand-placing icicles to create the life-size fairytale playground, in line with the workers. Gentle temperatures can wreak havoc, however the attraction is prepared for guests.

For costs and hours of operation, go to icecastles.com/utah.