UPDATE: January 26, 2024:  The Lakefront Park skating rinks and warming house are closed due to poor ice quality. 

Due to the unseasonably warm weather in December and early January, skating rinks will not be available at neighborhood parks in 2024.  All ice-making efforts will be focused at Lakefront Park.

Lakefront Park - CLOSED as of 1/26/24

  • Two hockey rinks and one recreational rink. Note: The Prior Lake-Savage Hockey Association uses Rink #2 on weekdays from 6-8 p.m.
  • Rink lights are on until 10 p.m. daily.
  • Portable toilets available.
  • Lost and Found items are kept onsite and can be claimed during warming house hours. 
  • Warming House Schedule:
    • Weekdays: 5 - 9:30pm
    • Saturday: 10am - 9pm
    • Sunday: 12 - 8pm

Closed in 2024:

Jeffers Pond Park

  • Rink is lighted, activate lights by using the push-button timer on-site.

Northwood Meadows Park

Sand Point Park

Willows Park

  • Rink is lighted, activate lights by using the push-button timer on-site.

Woodridge Park

  • Rink is lighted, activate lights by using the push-button timer on-site.

How long does it take to make an ice rink?

Making an outdoor ice rink is weather dependent. Staff begins the process in early winter by insulating and sealing the drains in the two paved hockey rinks at Lakefront Park. When temperatures have been below freezing long enough to freeze the ground, and the extended forecast looks like they will remain that way, staff will begin flooding the rinks with layers of water utilizing a water tanker truck. Most of the flooding occurs in the overnight hours when it is the coldest and there is no competition from the sun. It can take one or two weeks to make the six to eight inches of ice needed to open the rinks for skaters. The pleasure rink at Lakefront Park will usually take a week longer to obtain skateable ice as it is built on grass. Snow events will slow this process down when ice making staff is needed for snow plowing operations. For up-to-date ice rink conditions, please call the weather hotline at 952-447-9825.

 

 

Ice rink and warming house rules:

  • The following are NOT permitted at the ice rinks and warming house:
    • Hockey sticks/pucks on the pleasure rink at Lakefront Park
    • Foul or offensive language
    • Fighting or rough housing
    • Littering
    • Smoking or tobacco products
    • Possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages
  • Rink users are not permitted on a rink if the Zamboni is present.  Please use another rink until the ice resurfacing is complete.
  • Reservations are not accepted for the warming house or rinks
  • Group events are not permitted inside the warming house (i.e. birthday parties, sledding parties, etc).