After weeks of planning for the worst, the Ouray Ice Park has ice to offer after all, just in time for the 31st Ice Festival this weekend. Ice Park Executive Director Peter O’Neil has spent the past ...

OURAY, Colo. — A warm winter has delayed the opening of Ouray Ice Park, disrupting a seasonal economic engine for the southwestern Colorado town and forcing organizers, workers and climbers to adapt.

DENVER (KDVR) — The annual Ouray Ice Festival is set to take place at the end of January, but there’s a problem — there’s no ice. The Ouray Ice Festival takes place every year for three decades, with ...

When your business model revolves around ice, cold weather is nonnegotiable. So, this warm winter has been a struggle for Ouray Ice Park.

The Ouray Ice Park should be a frozen playground by this time in January – with ice chandeliers and frozen waterfalls more than 100 feet high beckoning ice climbers from around the world. Instead, ...

Timmy Foulkes, an ice farmer at the Ouray Ice Park, turns off the shower heads that drench the walls of the Uncompahgre gorge as they try desperately to build ice in Ouray on Dec. 30, 2025. (The ...

There is 17,000 vertical feet of rock wall, along one and half miles of canyon, that needs to get covered with ice every year, and it's the job of a four-man crew of ice farmers to grow all the ice.

Whether you're a weekend warrior or find yourself climbing multiple times a week, you should pay a visit to an ice climbing festival at least once. Throughout the United States, numerous festivals are ...