The installation, which opened Saturday by the Homestead Resort, features ice-carved tunnels, fountains, slides, frozen thrones and towers of ice lit internally by LED lights coordinated to music.
Workers and artists spent five weeks growing the icicles that form the installation’s framework, harvesting them and placing them by hand. The site covers about an acre, and features an estimated 25 million pounds of ice.
Ice Castles LLC, the company behind the annual installation, is based in Utah. Midway is the company’s first location, and there are now Ice Castles installations in five other cities: Stillwater, Minn.