What is "winterlude"

Winterlude () is an annual festival in Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec that celebrates winter.

Winterlude is run by the National Capital Commission and was started in 1979. The event is one of Ottawa's most important tourist draws, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. In 2007, it set a new attendance record of an estimated 1.6 million visits to one of the four Winterlude sites.

Winterlude can refer to:

• Winterlude, an annual winter festival held in Canada's National Capital Region
• Winterlude, a rock band from Denmark
• "Winterlude", a song by Bob Dylan on his album New Morning
• Winterlude is an instrumental Christmas album produced by Josh Darnall
• Winterlude, a book of poems by Vernon Scannell
• Winterlude (film), a 1996 film.