The Bennington Winter Festival is a way for the Bennington community to celebrate the entire winter season. It serves as host to a series of festivities from competitions that include ice sculptures and even the Penguin Plunges. It happens with participants jumping into the icy Lake Paran so as to benefit to the Special Olympics. It also comes with a Chili Contest right at the Mansion?s open house.

It is where you can also find exhibits with the Winter Fun at Park McCullough as the most popular. You can find numerous refreshments around with a lot of wagon rides, fashion show of pets in winter clothes, children?s storytelling activities and a lot more. One thing is sure that with this event, you will not have any idle moment.