Breckenridge Budweiser Snow Sculptures Festival 2013 - one of the very best!

Breckenridge Budweiser Snow Sculptures Festival is an absolutely amazing event. No matter how many times we visit it, each time we are amazed by the huge and beautiful sculptures carved from monstrous cubes of snow... But the visit always begins with a walk through the streets and admiring the mountain peaks just above the town...

 

The night in Breckenridge. Budweiser Snow Sculpture Festival 2019

Breckenridge is a great place to relax... It's especially beautiful in the fall (don't believe me? click here to check it out - Fall colors). Summer is good too... but winter is truly the best time... Especially two weekends in late January when the Budweiser Snow Sculpture Festival attracts teams from all over the world to carve blocks of snow and create some beauty (click here - Snowflake plus snowflake... finally we can make a snow sculpture, can't we? or here - Breckenridge Snow Sculptures Festival 2015 to see some of them).

 

Fall colors

Fall is an enchanting season in Colorado. The scorching summer heat has bid us farewell, but the biting winter cold hasn't yet arrived. In this transitional period, we are blessed with a few weeks of delightful mild weather, and an extra-special treat – the breathtaking Fall colors.

 

Breckenridge Snow Sculptures Festival 2015

Do you know what is the best day to visit Breckenridge to see the snow sculptures? I can say... Super Bowl Day ;) Why? Because most people sit at home watching TV and leave the roads empty... And at the Breckenridge Snow Sculpture Festival, it's not crowded at all and you can walk between huge snow sculptures and admire them ;)

 

Breckenridge Budweiser Snow Sculpture Festival 2017

I hope you don't miss the snow just yet... But if you do - I have something to show you ;)

 

Breckenridge, Budweiser Snow Sculpture Festival 2018

Every January you can go to Breckenridge and... look at the snow. I mean packed snow... I mean carved snow... Budweiser Snow Sculpture Festival is an amazing event. The international crews create masterpieces from blocks of pressed snow. They spend almost a week carving them and they will melt in a week or two. And what wasn't melted would be destroyed to give space for cars to park (yes, a big parking lot is used for this exhibition).

 

Snowflake plus snowflake... finally we can make a snow sculpture, can't we?

There are a lot of small resort towns that can be found somewhere in the Rockies. Mostly they attract the skiers but not only. It is fun to explore these mountain gems. But today let's talk about just one of them... Breckenridge... There is a lot of sun and nice slopes, which are really good for skiing. But it is not enough to make the town prosperous and blooming. What else? Infrastructure... hotels, restaurants, small stores... and all of these are easy to find in Breckenridge ;)

Just a couple of hours of driving and you find yourself at an elevation of 9600 feet on the hills of great slopes. The town of Breckenridge was incorporated in 1859 and there were only 51 people living there. In 2000 there lived 2408 people (twice as much as just 10 years before). But these are only permanent residents and the population is doubled or tripled during the winter months when the skiers from all around the country are visiting.

What attracts people here besides skiing? Everything! Fresh air and amazing views to the 14ers from even Main street among it ;)

 

Brek at night

We like Breckenridge. Nice place to come in Summer, or Winter, or Spring, or Fall ;) It is nice to come here in the morning or afternoon. And it is definitely a good place to walk around at night in the Winter...

 

Breckenridge Snow Sculptures Festival 2020.

This event happens every January, just not sure about 2021 ;( but it was a good time in January 2020 to go to Breckenridge and see snow sculptures. Instead of going during the day, we decided to try evening. And... looks like that was a good decision as we didn't have any traffic at all on our way there. And we arrived just in time - figures looked even more mysterious in dusk light.

 

Colorado colors - Kenosha and Boreas Passes, Breckenridge - Sept 2016

Our planet is quite old... A few billions years old... And all this time it is spinning around the sun and the same cycle repeats every year - Winter is starting the year, followed by Spring, that Summer and finally the Fall time is taking over the Summer. And every Fall we can go outside and enjoy the huge change in scenery, when the leaves turn yellow and red before the wind blows them away for the Winter.