Thank you for helping make the 2025 Frozen Assets Festival and 5K Run, Walk, and Skate one of the best ever! Throughout the week, Frozen Assets not only brought the community together, but it also educated people and raised awareness for our number one asset – the lakes!
Join Clean Lakes Alliance on Saturday, February 8th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Frozen Assets, with Hosting Sponsor The Edgewater! The family-friendly festival at The Edgewater helps connect the community with the lake through free winter activities. Festival attendees can see large show kites, science demonstrations, and try ice skating and snowshoeing. Festival goers can also enjoy free hot chocolate and more!
Each year, this FUNraiser, FRIENDraiser, and FUNDraiser highlights the year-round value of our lakes, while raising money to protect our waters through lake improvement projects, educational programming, and our volunteer water quality monitoring program. When the lakes freeze in Greater Madison, they become our largest parks. Clean Lakes Alliance hopes community members and visiting guests can interact with our “frozen assets” and appreciate their importance, even in the middle of the winter.
Saturday, February 8th, 2025 (10 a.m. – 3 p.m.)
The Edgewater & Lake Mendota
FREE, open to the public
2025 Ice and Snow Sailing World Championships, Lake Mendota
Kites on Mendota with Wisconsin Kiter’s Club, Lake Mendota
Free hot chocolate, Grand Plaza
Free ice skating and free skate rental, The Edgewater Ice Rink and Skate Shop
Try snowshoeing, Lake Mendota
Explore how UW-Madison Center for Limnology monitors our lakes in the winter months, Lake Mendota
Play Plinko (Lake-O), Nolen Gallery
Spin the Price is Right Wheel, Nolen Gallery
Snow Snake with members of Ho-Chunk Nation, Lake Mendota
WI Salt Wise booth – hear about how salt use can impact our lakes, outside
More events to be announced!
8 – 9:45 a.m. Check in for Frozen Assets 5K Run/Walk, 5th Floor Registration Tables
10 a.m. Frozen Assets 5K Run/Walk begins, Lake Mendota off The Edgewater Pier
10 a.m. – 1 p.m. UW Physics “What’s Colder Than Ice?” Lake Mendota
10:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. IceCube demonstrates Space Dust & Neutrinos, Outside
2:00 p.m. Clean Lakes 101 family-friendly science presentation, “Frozen Frontiers – Secrets of Life Beneath the Ice,” The Edgewater Grand Ballroom C
More events to be announced!
Join Clean Lakes Alliance at The Edgewater for the Frozen Assets Festival! We’ll have FREE, family-friendly activities on frozen Lake Mendota! Thank you to our hosting sponsor The Edgewater, and our other sponsors for making this community event possible.
The Frozen Assets Festival will kick off with the Frozen Assets 5K Run/Walk, held entirely on the ice in front of The Edgewater. The rest of the day will include family-friendly activities on the ice and The Edgewater Plaza.
Due to continued warm weather, Clean Lakes Alliance has made the decision to cancel all Frozen Assets events scheduled to take place on Lake Mendota. The decision was made after multiple days of drilling test holes in Lake Mendota, as well as speaking with experts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a local meteorologist, and local law enforcement officials. Events including skydiving, Kites on Mendota, snowshoeing, pond hockey, and the Mary B will not be at Frozen Assets this year.
