Photo: Courtesy Gaylord Rockies Resort
FestivalsICE! featuring The Nightmare Before Christmas at Gaylord Rockies
- When
- Nov 20 - Jan 3 · Daily through Jan 3, 2027; timed entry
- Where
- Gaylord Rockies Resort, Aurora
Gaylord Rockies is the resort debuting The Nightmare Before Christmas in ice, the first time the film has been carved for ICE!: the Aurora walk-through runs November 20 through January 3, built from more than two million pounds of ice by a crew of 30 carvers from Harbin, China.
The walk goes from Jack Skellington's grin through Halloween Town, the Holiday Forest and Christmas Town, with two-story ice slides through Oogie Boogie's lair on the way. It is kept at 9 degrees, so the resort hands out the blue parkas at the door.
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The rest of Christmas at Gaylord Rockies runs alongside it: snow tubing on Candy Cane Mountain, the Yuletide Street Market and the resort's lights. Tickets and packages are on christmasatgaylordrockies.com; the announcement does not print prices.
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