Dover Bay Resort to host Winter Festival during the Sandpoint Winter Carnival Weekend

The Sandpoint Winter Carnival contines to get better as Dover Bay Resort adds to the mix of actitivies at Schweitzer and Sandpoint with the Dover Bay Winter Festival. Winter Carnival Weekend takes place January 15-18.

Dover's Festival takes place primarily on Saturday, featuring a Polar Plunge (in the pool), a Snowshoe Volleyball Tournament, and Snowmobiling Demos. The Dover Bay Cafe will offer an outdoor, lakefront BBQ with brats and beer, along with breakfast and lunch off the menu.

Also taking place at Dover on both Saturday and Sunday from 11-4p is the Midwinter Art Festival. Sandpoint's biggest winter art event will feature the work of dozens of area artists, all hosted in various homes and venues throughout the waterfront resort. www.MidwinterArtFest.com. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of art will go to local charities affiliated with Sandpoint's Winter Carnival.

The Art Festival is sponsored and hosted by both Dover Bay Development and Tomlinson Sandpoint Sothebys Intl Realty, through the Listing Agents handling Dover Bay's real estate. One of those Agents is yours truly of course. Credit should be given to Gary Lirette, another Sothebys Agent, for orchestrating this event. This is really a great way for Dover Bay to show local and regional residents all that it has to offer, in a fun and no-pressure atmosphere.

Schweitzer Mountain will have quite a bit going on over the weekend as well. The highlight is the Torchlight Parade and Fireworks on the mountain starting at 6pm. The torchlight ski parade is alot of fun and is open to anyone. Night skiing will of course be going on, and it is just awesome to ski down with torches as fireworks are going off. We did this last year during a snow storm- hopefully we'll be so lucky again!

Fortunately the Dover events are over by 4 or 5, providing plenty of time to get to Schweitzer for the evening festivities. There will also be live music at Taps along with St Bernard. (Incidentally the St Bernard has really become a fantastic place for dinner or evening entertainment since my pal Scott Bortz took over last season).

The entire weekend starts off with the Taste of Sandpoint on Thursday night from 5-8p. Originally scheduled for the Cedar Street Bridge, this has been moved to the Sandpoint Events Center this year. The Winter Art Trek will be in Downtown Sandpoint on Friday night from 5-8p, along with a bonfire and Rail Jam at Jeff Jones Town Square. The weekend is capped off on Sunday at 10am with the Eichardt's K9 Keg Pull, one of the truly unique events in Sandpoint.

For more information on Dover Bay, Schweitzer, or Sandpoint visit www.SandpointResortRealty.com or give me a call at 208-304-5665. Whether it is real estate related or not, I am happy to help out.