With car racing, snowmobile drags, small plane fly-ins, axe-throwing and winter family activities, the Winter Festival of Speed is an event with style and speed!
Learn to drive a snowmobile, enter one of the race categories (including the solo event for unregistered ice racers), check out small aircraft and vintage sleds, visit the trapper's tent displays and axe throwing, and watch one of the wildest events on ice as cars, sleds and planes fill the lake in Lac La Biche!
Read this feature story for a preview of the 2023 event!
Featured events
Lac La Biche Aircraft Ice Fly-in
Small aircraft from around Western Canada will land on the ice, on the specially made ice surface. Audiences can meet the pilots and tour the insides of the planes.
Western Canadian Ice Race Championship (cars)
Feb 25, 26
1pm - 4pm
location: Lac La Biche Lake, in front of MacArthur Place
SSRA Sanctioned Snow Drags (Snowmobiles)
Feb 25, 26
11am - 5pm
On ice Registration: 8:00 - 10:00am
Info: Kevin at 780.623.8413 or SSRA