Fireworks and parades mark the shortest day of the year, and the beginning of Ushuaia's snow season is celebrated in July with a festival and popular cross-country snow walk. In December, businesses close early and people fill the main street as colourful troupes celebrate the Christmas carnival.
Tierra del Fuego National Park to see Lapataia Bay; the park can be reached on the End of the World Train (Tren del Fin del Mundo) from Ushuaia.
The city has a museum of Yamana, English, and Argentine settlement, including its years as a prison colony.
Wildlife attractions include local birds, penguins and orcas as seen on the islands in the Beagle Channel.
There are daily bus tours to Harberton, the estancia of the Bridges family. Some tours also visit the Les Eclaireurs Lighthouse, known as the Lighthouse at the End of the World (Faro del Fin del Mundo) — although it is not the same lighthouse like the one made famous by Jules Verne in the novel of the same name.
There are a number of ski areas nearby, like Cerro Castor and Glaciar Martial. The glacier is also a tourist destination during the summer months when the chairlift operates in both directions. Hiking trails lead from the city's edge to the base of the glacier, which has shrunk dramatically over the past century, as shown in photographs on display.
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