Lustgarten’s group – the Coney Island Polar Bear Club – hosted the first winter water plunge in the United States on New Year’s Day in 1903. The L Street Brownies in South Boston followed ...

Polar Plunge 2024 at Lake Sammamish. Chill out at the Polar Plunge 2024 at Lake Sammamish on New Year's Day from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Take a hike at 10:30 a.m. or 11 a.m. with a Washington State ...

Contests include Biggest Polar Bear Splash, Oldest Polar Bear and Best Polar Bear Hat. After the plunge, warm up with a hot drink. Participants pay $8 to $45 depending on the amount of swag they want.

More than 8,000 people participated in the 31st Polar Bear Plunge at Seaside Heights on Saturday, February 24, 2024. Jim Lowney | For NJ Advance Medi.

Think twice before taking the plunge. Polar plunges take place when groups gather — often to ring in the new year or raise money for charity — and jump into frigid bodies of water.

It’s been 10 years since Charlie Weinstein asked his friend Jack Pierce if he and a few other friends wanted to take a New Year’s Day plunge in the chilly waters near their Sea Cliff homes. "I ...

New Year's 2016: Polar Plunge was fun, even if not polar-like For Fran Read, a 63-year-old veteran plunger at the time, it was always something special. "I can sleep in any day of the year," she said.

Raci Erdem, center, is greeted by Diana Parker, right, as they emerge from the cold of Lake Coeur d’Alene after charging in at the annual Polar Bear Plunge in Coeur d’Alene Wednesday, Jan. 1 ...

Polar plungers brave chilly water on sunny day at North Avenue Beach Nearly 4,000 plungers raised around $2 million for the 23rd annual event benefiting Special Olympics Chicago.