Berthoud Snowfest 2021

WELCOME to Berthoud Snowfest 2021.  Berthoud Main Street along with Snow Creations will be bringing the Town of Berthoud Multiple Professional snow sculpting teams and amateur high school teams to compete in this years event.  This years event will include  vendor booths, kids / family carving, caroling, tree lighting and the Santa parade.  We request that you social distance when you can or wear a mask to protect yourself and others. If you have covid flu like symptoms, or have been exposed to someone with covid, we ask that you stay home.  when visiting the sculptures at Fickel Park.

The Colorado Snow Sculpting competition will begin packing snow on Monday January 10th.  Artists will begin carving their block on Wednesday January 12th and completing their sculptures Saturday morning January 15th at 10:00am.  Berthoud Main Street will open voting for the peoples choice awards on Saturday January 15th at 10 am and voting will be open until 4pm. Each vote will be $1 that will be deposited into the teams bucket at the south end of the displays.    Awards will be presented to the artists on Saturday evening, after we have tabulated all the votes.

We would like to encourage any visitors to downtown to also be sure to order some food for take home dining from our local downtown restaurants and to also visit our many downtown retailers for your holiday shopping needs.  Let's keep our downtown economy and ourselves healthy.

THE PARADE WILL GO ON!!! DECEMBER 11th - 5:30pm.  To register for the FREE parade, fill out this form   The parade will begin at approximately 5:30pm down Mountain Ave starting at 2nd street and end at 8th Street. Santa will stop at Fickel Park to start the lights, and sing along caroling.

If you would like to sponsor a sculpting team, create a team, or be a vendor at the park or for just more information, please contact [email protected]

SCHEDULE:

PARADE!!!

DECEMBER 11th - 5:30pm  PARADE - SANTA - CAROLING at Fickel Park

 

SNOW SCULPTING COMPETITION (postponed til January 2022)

Mon-Tue January 10-11 - Snowpacking

Wednesday January 12th  -  Teams begin carving

Thursday January 13th - Carving

Friday January 14th - Carving

Saturday January 15th - 10:00am  tools down - carving ends

10:00am judging

10:00am til 4:00pm - Vendor booths open in Fickel Park

10:00am til 4:00pm - People's choice voting

11:00am to .....  Kids / public  - learn to carve using 5 gallon snow blocks

5:00pm -  - Awards

January 15th - 21st - Sculptures will remain up - weather permitting -

*times are approximate and could change