Winterfest

02/28/2026

Hard to be freezin when we’ve got these feelins! 🥲💙☃️

02/28/2026

Tasty Bits is breaking the ice for us and kicking off our evening perfomances! 🧊🎸🔨

We’ll be here in Veterans Building at City Park. Come chill! 😎🍻

02/28/2026

What a great turnout for the Chili Cookoff! 🍲
You “sknow” you want to get in on the action. 😉

Come grab a bite to eat and a beverage!

You can still find the event timeline on our webpage 🔗 https://www.bgohio.gov/703/BG-Winterfest

02/28/2026

02/28/2026

“Where’s the raffle person?” Look for the balloons! 🎈❄️

50/50 raffle is going on now. Drawing will be called at 2 p.m. and again later this evening. 🎟️

Thanks to the Bowling Green Parks & Recreation Board and Foundation members for their help! 👍

02/28/2026

Ice Carving is happening outside the atrium of the Veterans Building! Come chill out! 😎🧊

02/09/2023

Hello!

It's been a while. We wish we were posting with better news, but unfortunately Winterfest is going on a hiatus for the time being.

This was a difficult decision and one we did not take lightly. Unfortunately many of the members on our planning committee had had big life events happen within the past year. It is that coupled with having trouble filling vacant positions on our planning committee that we could not devote the time to plan the Winterfest you all are used to and deserve.

We know this is disappointing, but we hope you all understand as we try to navigate the waters for a possible future Winterfest Chillabration. We hope to see you soon!

~ Winterfest Committee

01/08/2021

The Winterfest BG Chillabration Committee regrets to announce the event is cancelled for 2021. Though the Committee hoped that the pandemic would be behind us and we would be able to put on another great Winterfest for our community, we feel that for the safety of our community, it would be for the best to cancel this year’s event.

The BG Winterfest, which would be celebrating its 13th year, has grown to be a signature event in Bowling Green, bringing in visitors from surrounding areas. We would like to thank Wendy Chambers and the Bowling Green Convention & Visitors Bureau for starting, sponsoring and facilitating the growth of the BG Winterfest. We would also like to thank the sponsors and volunteers who have helped make the event possible. Another big thank you to The Union Bank and Heritage Corner Health Care, as well as many others for sponsoring the Chillabration!

With the help of our sponsors and volunteer’s, we have added the Frozen Swamp Tent with two days of live music and spirited fun in the middle of the winter season. The BG Winterfest Chillabration will definitely be missed this year quoted Todd McGee, event chairman. However, we plan to use this time to create a bigger and better Winterfest in 2022! So mark your calendars to attend the Winterfest 2022 on February 11-12th.

Three years ago the Winterfest became its own entity and started the transition of being run by an all-volunteer committee. If you are interested in being a part of the Winterfest Committee or would like to volunteer, please contact our current Chairman Todd McGee of the Best Western Falcon at 419-352-4671.

03/04/2020

For 2020, Winterfest had 2 nights of great music. Derrick and Derrick and AmpWagon provided tunes for the first Friday night in the Frozen Swamp Tent. Then one Saturday, Winterfest-goers were treated to music from Ginger and the Snaps, Joe Baker Band, Corduroy Road, and Nashville Crush.

📷: taken by Carmen Cano and Anthony Smith, edited by Carmen Cano

03/03/2020

There were a lot of fast times at the Bowling Green Parks & Recreation's 2020 Frostbite Fun Run. Thank you everyone for stopping out and thank you Biggby Coffee BG Ohio for sponsoring!

03/02/2020

Black Swamp Curling Center and BGCC hosted the Association 5 and Championship Bonspiel during Winterfest weekend. Who went and watched this HUGE curling event?

📷: Cassie Watson