EAGLE RIVER, Wis. — In a small city nestled among the Northwoods of Wisconsin, sits an illuminated castle made ... operation to cut the bricks from nearby Silver Lake, truck them downtown, and ...

EAGLE RIVER ... spending more time downtown. Many do, he said, to go shopping or to get something to eat. The ice castle draws crowds of people in real life to Eagle River, too, Anderson said.

The population in Eagle River, Wisconsin is only 1,600 so there can ... haul them to the downtown and then begin stacking them to create the castle.

Crews from the Eagle River Fire Department completed an ice castle there on Jan. 12, the first time since 2022 that cold weather allowed the build.