Escape to Winter Wonderland For The Holidays

(OWENSBORO, KY) With the US economy facing it's most challenging time in decades, here's a great idea to maximize your holiday budget while providing quality entertainment for your entire family.

Beginning November 28th, Owensboro’s Ohio Riverfront miraculously transforms into an elaborate Winter Wonderland.

RiverPark Center's huge BB&T Plaza features a New York Rockefeller Center-style ice rink. A 35-foot Christmas tree at the welcoming entrance, giant movie screen showing your favorite holiday movies, live music, Ferris wheel, tipsy teacups, carriage rides, a musical Christmas carousel, snow activities and competitions, and of course Santa himself are just a few features of this fairy tale festival.

Named a Southeast Tourism Society Top 20 Event and a Kentucky Tourism Council Top 10 Winter Events, Owensboro’s 5th Annual Winter Wonderland is one of the Tri-State’s best holiday gatherings!

Beginning Blades offers young skaters an opportunity to take the ice before the rink is opened to more experienced skaters.

The RiverPark Center is designating hours on Saturday mornings and late afternoons for parents and children under six to have time on the ice. “For so many youngsters, this is their first skating experience,” says RiverPark Center General Manager Roxi Witt. “We want the children and their parents to thoroughly enjoy learning to skate and the time together without feeling intimidated by more experienced skaters.”

Every Monday is FREE skating (including skates). Witt, says, “We are extremely fortunate to be able to offer free skating every Monday. The citizens of Owensboro and Daviess County have been very generous in contributing money to off-set the cost of free skating.”

Local choral and musical groups will provide live entertainment for the skaters. The trees of Smother’s Park will be turned into a holiday forest and special lighting displays will help decorate the riverfront. And just in case Mother Nature does not cooperate with a blanket of snow, the RiverPark Center has a snowmaking machine that will generate the white fluffy stuff regardless of weather conditions and temperature.

RiverPark’s huge outdoor movie screen with its Dolby sound will present many children’s classic holiday movies.

For more details logon to www.riverparkcenter.org or call Owensboro Tourism Toll Free (800) 489-1134 or the River Park Center (270) 687-2770.