The Kings Of Ice Castles Come To New Hampshire

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Published January 21, 2014 at 1:50 PM EST

Cory Livingood stands in a potential ice throne location. (Sean Hurley/NHPR)

Utah has one. So does Colorado. And now New Hampshire has one, too: Its very own ice castle.

The frozen structure is now open to the public at Loon Mountain in north central New Hampshire.

It’s taken mother nature and 20 workers about a month to turn tons of homemade icicles into a glacial maze of frozen caverns and clear blue coliseums.

From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Sean Hurley of New Hampshire Public Radio took a tour of the nearly completed castle and sent us this report.

Read more and see more photos via NHPR

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Sean Hurley, reporter for New Hampshire Public Radio. He tweets @Sherwinsleeves.

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