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Though many events are still in the planning stages, Detroit Lakes' 2022 Polar Fest celebration will include 17 days of frosty fun, Feb. 11-27 kicked off by the unveiling of the city's largest ice palace to date. The festivities will also serve as the finale to the city's 150th birthday celebration.
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People just love it in Detroit Lakes.
“DL,” as the locals call it, is a laid-back place where folks are happy to hang out by the water in their flip-flops all summer long, and then just as happy to head to the hills in their ski boots in winter.
A prime example of Minnesota’s famous ‘lake culture,’ Detroit Lakes is a magnet for summer tourists. Boating, tubing, biking, beach-going there’s never a shortage of outdoor fun in the sun. The community’s mile-long beach, just blocks from downtown, along with its generous smattering of stores, restaurants and lakeside hotels and resorts, are all big draws for warm weather visitors.
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Actor Josh Duhamel takes the plunge in support of Boys & Girls Club of Detroit Lakes
February 13, 2021
DETROIT LAKES, Minn. (KVRR) To celebrate 25 years of the Polar Fest Plunge tradition, one celebrity with ties to North Dakota is bearing the cold to help raise funds for the Boys & Girls Club of Detroit Lakes.
Normally, the event is open to the public where people gather around a frozen lake to watch plungers jump into an icy hole to help raise funds.
However, due to pandemic restrictions this year’s event allowed for one celebrity jumper.
Actor Josh Duhamel was this year’s “Proxy Plunger.”