Rice Creek's third-annual Celebrate Snow Winter Festival will be held Saturday, Feb 18, 2023. The severe weather date is Sunday, Feb 19.

The 2023 festival will include both indoor and outdoor hands-on family-friendly activities related to snow and winter. Organizations participating include the Children's Museum of Oswego, the Oswego Public Library, Murdock's Bicycles and Sports, the SUNY Oswego Department of Atmospheric and Geological Sciences, the Department of Biological Sciences, the Office of Sustainability, and more.

This event is free and open to all. 

Activities include:

• Snow-themed Story Time with Oswego Public Library
• Children's Museum of Oswego snow play & learn station
• Mammal track walks & make your own mammal track
• Snowshoeing
• Try out a fat bike - with Murdock's
• Snow science
• Arts & crafts
• Bird watching
• "Maple on Tap" table - with information about the SUNY Oswego program
• Campfire & marshmallows
• Hot cocoa

Highlights of the festival include:

• 12 pm | A richly-illustrated book talk on Historic Snowstorms of Central New York by local author Jim Farfaglia.
• Ongoing | "Snowflakes Up Close" - 64-piece exhibit featuring the snowflake photography of RIT professor Michael Peres.
• Ongoing | A poster update on the NSF-funded lake-effect lightning study led by SUNY Oswego Professors Dr. Scott Steiger and Dr. Yonggang Wang this winter. 

For questions about the event or how to be involved, please email rcfs@oswego.edu or call 315.312.6677.