On New Year’s Day, thousands of people headed to the beaches for Flora-Bama’s 40th annual Polar Bear Dip to ring in 2025. Many participants dressed in ...

Angel Knopick, of Gary, grew up near Lakeland Park in Burns Harbor. She fondly recalls summers spent at the park. On Saturday, she swam in the frigid lake as part of the park department’s first ...

to take the plunge said it was his way to get a fresh start in the new year without a hangover. The Oakville-based polar bear dip into Lake Ontario has been running for 40 years, and is one of ...

a Polar Bear Dip participant said. But others said they would have to disagree. “Extremely cold this year. Last year, not so bad this year. It was a true polar plunge,” another participant said.

The Polar Plunge drew hundreds of people to the lake to take the frigid dip. The outside temperature was in the 30s as the ...

Just when you thought the L Street Brownies polar plunge couldn’t get any wilder, along comes Christina Nardone and her fiancé, Matthew McConnell. Or should we say, her husband — the ...

The annual Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge drew thousands of people to the beach on New Year’s Day as participants took a freezing dip to ring in 2025 while raising record funds for local nonprofit ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. — J Farley's Pub in Claremore hosted the first Polar Plunge event of the 2025 season to help raise money for Special Olympics Oklahoma. "Today kicked off our Polar Plunge ...

The New Year’s Day plunge involves braving the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean. “That’s why they call it the Polar Bear Dip. It was cold,” said Holden Scharer, Morgan Hill resident.