For National Geographic Traveler, the St. Paul Winter Carnival
takes fourth-place in the world when it comes to wintry festivals.
Anchorage's Fur Rendezvous topped the list.
The Traveler's writeup of the event explains how Winter Carnival began when a reporter wrote that St. Paul was "another Siberia, unfit for human habitation in the winter." Beginning in 1886, St. Paulites asserted their local pride with the winter festivities.