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Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025

Is Minnesota home to the largest ice maze in the world?

Winter Keefer, MinnPost
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The Eagan Ice Festival this year features the world’s largest ice maze, a title certified by Guinness World Records. The maze is located in TCO Stadium. 

The 18,148-square-foot ice maze with 8-foot-tall walls beat out the former record holder, a nearly 13,000-square-foot ice maze in Buffalo, N.Y., certified in 2010. 

Minnesota Ice, producer of the Ice Festival, and the company’s founder and CEO Robbie Harrell were the official recipients of the Guinness World Record award. In order to break a Guinness record, Harrell said they had to prove beyond a doubt that the maze was the world’s largest. 

Construction of the maze started on Dec. 1 and was mostly completed Jan. 4. Work continued on the inside of the structure until the Jan. 10 start of the Ice Festival, which organizers hope will run through Feb. 16, weather permitting.

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