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!!

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2025 Theme Selection

Our 2025 Winter Carnival Theme Has Been Selected —  MUSIC LEGENDS! Join us from January 31-February 9, 2025 for the Festivities!!

During the Winter Carnival Committee's Theme Selection Meeting held in APR 2024, a decision was made for the 2025 Winter Carnival Theme.  As always, there were so many great ideas put on the table, but the final decision was made democratically, by all members of the committee.  After narrowing the field of possible themes, the winner was a theme that wasn't new to being on the theme list, but it looks like 2025 will be its year - MUSIC LENGENDS!  Join us in celebrating all the brilliance of Winter through parades, sports events, fireworks, family gatherings and many other festivities including of course Our Winter Carnival Ice Palace!

2025: Music Legends

2024: Creepy Carnival

2023: Roman Around Carnival

2022: Totally 80’s

2021: Masquerade

2020: Myths and Legends

2019: Prehistoric Park

2018: Adirondack Festival

2017: Adirondack Wildlife

2016: Superheroes and Villains

2015: The Groovy 60's

2014: Celtic Carnival

2013: Under the Sea

2012: Space Alien Invasion

2011: Medieval Times

2010: Adirondack Cowboy

2009: Pirates of the Adirondacks

2008: Hooray for Hollywood

2007: Fabulous Fifties

2006: The Roaring 20's

2005: Adirondack Aloha

2004: Carnival Time

2003: Mardi Gras

2002: United in the Mountains

2001: Do the Locomotion

2000: Boogie Down Broadway

1999: All-America City

1998: Magical Memories

1997: Surfin' the Century

1996: Music in the Mountains

1995: Hurray for the Holidays

1994: Sister City Celebration

1993: Hearts and Hugs

1992: Saranac Lake's First Century

1991: Cabin Fever

1990: Carnival of Commercials

1989: Carnival Round-Up

1988: Storyland

1987: Cupid's Carnival

1986: The Enchanted Village

1985: Magical Kingdom

1984: Once Upon A Time in Saranac Lake

1983: Cartoon Carnival

1982: Mardi Gras

1981: Historic Saranac Lake

1980: Parade of Nations

1979: Carnival Dreams

1978: Toyland

1977: Anything Goes

1976: Magic Moments in American History

1975: Funtasia

1974: 150 Years of Progress

1973: Remember When

1972: Diamond Jubilee

1971: Our Town

1970: Circus Time

1969: Anniversary Time

1968: Fairy Tale Festival

1967: Holiday Time

1966: Song Time in Saranac Lake