Besides sitting inside next to a warm fire, drinking hot cocoa and playing games, riding your fat tire bike through the snow is also part of experiencing Hygge. Photo by Bryan Hansel
Nowhere else can visitors experience winter beauty, adventure, relaxation and coziness, like they can in the little harbor village of Grand Marais on Lake Superior at the third annual Hygge Festival, Friday, Feb. 8 – Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019.
Throughout the week, visitors can indulge in a classic North Shore winter vacation across the county with hygge-themed activities like dogsledding, stargazing, cross-country skiing, and fireside gatherings at well-known northern Minnesota lodges, including the Gunflint Lodge and Cascade Lodge.
According to Linda Jurek, executive director of Visit Cook County in Grand Marais, “hygge encourages us to embrace all of winter’s pleasures: Snowshoeing through the woods with someone special, feeling the fresh snow crunch beneath you, savoring each snowflake that lands on your eyelash, that’s hygge.”
The third annual festival will feature some new events, and some returning hygge favorites:
Fatbiking Up the River with Grand Marais Mayor, Jay Arrowsmith-DeCoux.
Card writing and knitting by the fire.
Cross-country skiing tour at twilight.
Fireplace tour featuring some of the most historic fireplaces in Cook County.
Hygge themed menus
Live music, including acapella group SVEA singing Scandinavian folk songs.
Mukluk ball at Voyageur Brewing Company with live music by Plucked Up String Band
For more information on the third annual hygge festival and for dates and times, please check out: https:// www.visitcookcounty.com/ event/ hygge festival/
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