MUSIC LEGENDS!  Selected as our 2025 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival theme - Start planning your costumes and celebrations!

Thanks for joining us at last year's Creepy Carnival! For more information on the selection of 2025's Winter Carnival theme, click here.

2025 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Dates - January 31st, 2025 - February 9th, 2025!!

All vendor spots have been filled!

Past Royalty

View Our Past Saranac Lake Winter Carnival Royalty, From 1947 to Today.

Click to read more about each year's royalty!

2024  Ricky Sullivan + Liz Scammell Murray

2023 Marty Rowley + Patty Ploof

2022 Dan Reilly + Martha Watts

2021 Joe Szwed + Nancy Heath

2020 Joe Szwed + Nancy Heath

2019 Philip Griffin + RoseAnn Hickey

2018 Clyde Baker + Nancy LaBombard

2017 John Wamsganz + Anita Meserole

2016 Brendan Keough + Kathy Ford

2015 Steve Racette + Linda Jackson

2014 Jeff Branch + Dorothy Metz

2013 Lee Foster + Cherie Racette

2012 Tim Fortune + Kelly Morgan

2011 Ed Scharmer + Cheri Fisher

2010 Frank Camelo + Carol Reyell

2009 Roger Steinbrueck + Vera Finegan

2008 William "Bub" McGrain + Janet Simkins

2007 Dick Kibben + Marilyn Bigelow

2006 Allie Pelletieri + Tomi Gallagher

2005 Rip Allen + Ruth Sofield

2004 Raymond Dora + Donna Dora

2003 Wayne Newman + Pearl LaVallee

2002 Walter "Bud" Duffy + Barbara Martin

2001 Sam Grimone + Bonnie Carris

2000 John Howard + Beryl Szwed

1999 Robert Brown + Patricia Brown

1998 Jacques DeMattos + Linda Piro

1997 Forrest Morgan + Kris Bell

1996 Michael Kilroy + Margaret Logie

1995 Derek Doty + Virginia Harrington

1994 Charles Martin + Shirley Hosler

1993 James Bishop + Barbara Damp

1992 A. David Martelle + Cheryl Lyon

1991 Roger King + Dale McGinnis

1990 James Lamy + Barbara Merritt

1989 Charles Keough + Margaret LaPointe

1988 Donald Duso + Ann Latour Fina

1987 Reginald Perras + Betty Sayles

1986 Ronald B. Keough + Mildred R. Keough

1985 Clarence McCormick Kathleen + Morgan Fobare

1984 Robert MacIntyre + Sheila Morgan

1983 Edward McCarthy + Mary Dicks

1982 Peter A. Ward + Mildred Whitson

1981 Raymond LaRose + Carolyn McCormick

1980 Francis Stearns + Alice McColgan

1979 Clyde Cheesman + Patricia Oddy

1978 Thomas Doty + Margaret Haig

1977 Louis Fobare + Phyllis Knobel

1976 Eugene Keough + Sue Dyer

1975 Jeffrey Whisher + Elizabeth Dora

1974 John Raymond + Margaret Toohey

1973 Ernest Seifried + Dorothy Lamy

1972 Philip Lalande + Mona Fobare

1971 Charles Pandolph + Norma Allen

1970 (end of celebrity royalty) Charlie Slavin (Irish singer/comedian + Vicki Sunday (singer)

1969 Bobby Sherman (original king, last minute abdication), Milt Kamen (comedian) + Vicki Sunday (singer)

1968 Ed Platt (movie star) + Renee Claude

1967 Charles Gogolak (pro football player) + Judy Carne (TV star/entertainer)

1966 Jean-Paul Vignon (entertainer) + Carol Ann Tidey (Miss Dominion of Canada)

1965 Norman Brooks (Canadian singer) + Miss Canada Linda Douma (Miss Canada 1965)

1964 Julius LaRosa (singer/entertainer) + Celeste Yarnell (Miss Rheingold 1964)

1963 Lawrence E. Doyle (pro-ball player) + Loretta Ann Rissell (Miss Rheingold 1963)

1962 Edmund Lamy (skater/barrel jumper) + Kathy Kersh (Miss Rheingold 1962)

1961 Peter Palmer (singer/actor) + Betty Walker (TV star/actor)

1960 John Fisher (Canadian news broadcaster) + Jill Corey (entertainer)

1957 Don McNeil (radio personality) + Denise Darcel (French singer/actress)

1956 Jackie Rae (TV star) + Joyce Hahn (singer)

1955 Jeff Clark (singer) + Julliette (Canadian singer)

1954 Johnny Desmond (singer) + Shirley Harmer (singer)

1954 (beginning of celebrity royalty)

1953 Al Hodge + Margaret Johnson

1952 John Lapan Shirley + Homburger

1951 Thomas Fina + Natalie Bombard

1950 Donald Manley + Kathleen Oberst

1948-49 Ned Pendergast + Donalda Maple

1947 Robert Sullivan + Jean Keating

1947-1953 Kings and Queens were High School Seniors