A lighted parade fills the streets of downtown Lake Geneva with holiday cheer. Be sure to visit the shops and restaurants afterward for specials and holiday happenings.

Eagle River hosts the biggest and most prestigious snowmobile race in the entire sport— over 40,000 people attend annually to watch more than 500 international drivers compete.

Shop for everything you need to get ready for camping season from the region’s best dealers.

Lake Geneva hosts the U.S. National Snow Sculpting Competition during this festival that celebrates all things winter. Fifteen teams travel from all over the country to Flatiron Park, and with great skill and detail, fashion snow into amazing sculptures over nine feet tall. Also make snowmen at a bonfire; go skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing; and

Check out candlelight skiing, a chili cook-off, ice carving, ice bowling, a costumed Fruit Loop Fun Run, an entertaining Stumpf Fiddle Contest and an awesome fireworks show. Quirky games are abundant, as is delicious food and live music.

Celebrate hot air balloons with a Friday night balloon and fire show as well as a parade and fireworks. On Saturday and Sunday, more than 30 balloons launch at sunrise and in the evening, they inflate once more, lighting up the dark with glowing colors. Also partake in bingo, a pancake breakfast, kite-flying and ice-carving