Rockton Yeti Fest – 2018

When:
January 31, 2018 @ 9:00 am – February 3, 2018 @ 4:00 pm
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2018-02-03T16:00:00-06:00
Where:
Settlers Park
150 E. Hawick St.
Rockton
Illinois 61072
Contact:
Rockton Yeti Fest
(815) 624-0935

The festival where the abominable snow people of Rockton (and their friends) come out to enjoy snow sculpting, yeti hunting, ice skating, dog sled mushing (new!) or yeti special eating, drinking (including onesie pub crawling) and buying!

Watch amazing snow sculptures being carved starting Wednesday, Jan. 31 at Settlers Park with sculptures finishing on Saturday, Feb. 3. Visit on Friday and Saturday to vote for your favorite sculpture – $1 per vote. The top three teams split their prize money with the Rockton Lions Club, and the remaining proceeds also go to the Lions Club. Awards will be given out at the chili lunch at the American Legion in downtown Rockton on Saturday, Feb. 3 from 11 am – 2 pm.

Giant Community Snow Fort: Starting Wednesday, Jan. 31, head to Settlers Park to do your part in building the largest snow fort Rockton has ever seen! A limited amount of snow fort-making brick forms will be available, but please feel free to bring your own supplies.

Free Spirit Sled Demo Team will be there on Friday night from 6 – 8 pm for the first time this year! “Mushing” demos are set for 6:30 and 7:30 pm.

Also the Yeti Hunt has moved to Settlers Park as well, Friday night from 7 – 8 pm.

Onesie Pub Crawl: Onesies not required by highly encouraged! No cost to participate, just pick up a stamp card at one of the participating locations and get started. Starts at 7 pm on Friday, Feb. 2.

For more information on the Yeti Hunt, Giant Snow Fort, Yeti Fest Pub Crawl, or Rockton Lions Club chili lunch, please see the individual event listings on the Rockton Yeti Fest or Rockton Lions Club Facebook pages.