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Therapeutic landscapes represent a lively field of inquiry in health geography. The health benefits of green and blue spaces feature prominently across this literature, and generate rich understanding of how it feels to encounter and move through natural environments. Juxtaposed against an abundant scholarship on green and blue (and growing attention to broader ‘palettes of place’ including grey and brown landscapes), white spaces – environmental snow and ice – have yet to be investigated. Research on everyday experiences of snow and ice is limited, particularly for older adults potentially more vulnerable to climactic conditions given health and mobility limitations. This study aimed to characterize white space impacts on the perceived well-being of older adults. Interviews were conducted with community-dwelling men and women (n = 125, mean age 71 years) in the Minneapolis metropolitan area from …