Outdoor Ice Skating Near Me: Outdoor Rinks and Holiday Rinks (2026)

National guide for the 2026 holiday season. A rink is included only when its own listing supports outdoor ice or a seasonal holiday rink. Opening dates and ticket prices are not in our data.

An outdoor ice rink at night beside a lit Ferris wheel — Photo by Alex Moliski on Pexels. A stock photo of outdoor ice skating, not a photograph of a specific rink.

Outdoor ice skating near you, for the 2026 holiday season, starts with the wording on the rink's own listing. This guide links every city and metro page we can support from that wording, and it says plainly where the directory does not have enough listings for a page.

Some of these rinks are seasonal holiday pop-ups. A listing that says "holiday ice," "Christmas village," or "seasonal ice" is not the same as a listing that says the ice is outdoors, and it is not a promise that the rink is open this week. Opening dates and ticket prices are not in our data.

Confirm both with the rink before you travel. Hours on a rink page, when they exist, come from the Google listing and can describe the building rather than public skate.

A hub page needs at least three qualifying listings. One famous rink stays on its own page. The test looks at the name and the description: outdoor ice, a skating ribbon or ice trail, a skating pond, or seasonal and holiday ice that is not described as indoor. An outdoor pool, an outdoor playground, or a shop category does not qualify.

New York

New York has 5 qualifying listings inside 30 miles, which is enough for its own page. Wollman Rink and The Rink At Rockefeller Center are seasonal listings in Manhattan.

Neither description says the ice is outdoors. Roosevelt Park Outdoor Family Skating Rink in Edison is the named outdoor rink in this circle. Start with the outdoor page if you want that mix, and use the Christmas page if you want every seasonal tag, including ones this test rejects.

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Boston

Boston's 4 qualifying listings are the clearest outdoor set in the Northeast on this site. Boston Common Frog Pond says it is an outdoor rink in winter and a spray pool in summer.

Kelly Outdoor Rink and the Charlestown memorial rink are stored under their own city names, so a search for the city of Boston alone will not show them. Paw Paw Pond in Hanover is a pond listing, not a downtown pop-up. The outdoor page is the one to use. The Christmas page adds seasonal tags that never say outdoor.

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Washington, DC

5 listings around Washington qualify, and most of them say outdoor in the name or the description. Reston Town Center Ice Skating Pavilion says outdoor skating in the winter months. Westpost Outdoor Ice Skating formerly Pentagon Row says outdoor ice and mentions artificial snowfall. Ice & Lights: The Winter Village at Cameron Run is the winter-village listing, holiday wording rather than the word outdoor.

Glen Burnie falls inside 30 miles of downtown Washington and inside the Baltimore circle, so it is listed on the Washington page rather than on a separate Baltimore outdoor page.

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Chicago

Chicago already has a city-limits page built from the outdoor tag. The new page is the 30-mile circle, and it uses the stricter wording test, so the two lists are not copies. Maggie Daley Park Ice Skating Ribbon is the downtown ribbon. McCormick Tribune Plaza is seasonal skating on a square.

The listing's "outdoor" word is about a restaurant. Suburban park rinks in Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows, Lake Forest, and Orland Park are what the metro page adds. Use that page for a day trip. Use the city tag page only if you want every Chicago address the outdoor tag marked.

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Minneapolis

The Minneapolis circle has 3 qualifying listings, and none of them are addressed in Minneapolis itself. Shoreview and St. Paul name outdoor ice skating. Keseley Pond in St. Louis Park is categorized as an ice skating rink and nothing in the listing says it is a staffed holiday rink.

That is enough for a page because the three listings are real and distinct. It is not a downtown Minneapolis pop-up guide. Indoor arenas such as Parade Ice Garden stay off it.

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San Francisco

San Francisco has 4 qualifying listings, and only one of them says outdoor skating. Winter Lodge in Palo Alto says the center is indoor and outdoor. Union Square, the Kristi Yamaguchi holiday rink in San Ramon, and 3Crosses Christmas Village in Castro Valley are holiday names.

They are on the outdoor page so holiday searches have somewhere honest to land, with that limit written on the page. Yerba Buena Ice Skating & Bowling Center is not included. Its listing mentions an outdoor playground, not outdoor ice.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles does not get a separate outdoor page. The 3 qualifying listings are holiday-ice names, and they are the same set already on the Christmas page. None of those listings say the ice is outdoors.

The names are LA Kings Holiday Ice Pike Outlets, LA Kings Holiday Ice at L.A. LIVE, Holiday Ice Rink. Use the Christmas page for those holiday rinks, and confirm dates and prices with each rink. We do not have a 2026 opening calendar for them.

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Michigan

No Michigan metro has three listings that pass the wording test, so there is no Detroit, Ann Arbor, or other Michigan outdoor hub.

Inside 30 miles of downtown Detroit, 2 listings qualify: The Outdoor Ice Rink At Clark Park in Detroit and Reflection Pond Public Skating in Riverview. The Rink at Campus Martius says it is open seasonally for skaters and does not say the ice is outdoors, so it stays on the Christmas page rather than an outdoor hub. Veterans Memorial Park Pool & Ice Arena says the ice rink is indoor. Petoskey Winter Sports Park describes a seasonal park with ice rinks, sledding, and skiing.

It does not say the ice is outdoors, and Petoskey is far outside the Detroit circle. For Detroit holiday skating, use the Christmas page and then confirm the season with the rink.

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Denver

Denver's 30-mile circle has 1 qualifying listing, which is not enough for an outdoor hub. Parker Ice Trail at Discovery Park in Parker is named as an ice trail. The listing has no weekly hours. Howelsen Outdoor Ice Rink in Steamboat Springs is named as an outdoor rink.

It is about 110 miles from downtown Denver, outside this circle, and its listing has no hours and no Google rating. Colorado still has those rink pages. It does not have a Denver outdoor guide, because one suburban ice trail is not a metro page.

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Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City has 2 qualifying listings in the 30-mile circle. They are Ice Ribbon at Crane Plaza in Herriman and Bountiful Ice Ribbon in Bountiful. An ice ribbon in the name is the same pattern as Maggie Daley's ribbon, and it still takes three listings before this site publishes a hub.

Indoor arenas whose outdoor tag came from a pool are not counted. The Christmas page remains the seasonal roundup for the valley.

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Atlanta

Atlanta's circle has 10 listed rinks and 0 that pass the outdoor or holiday wording test. Skate the Station is in Atlanta. Its listing text does not say the ice is outdoors and does not name a holiday rink, so it does not start an outdoor page. There is no Atlanta outdoor hub.

Use the metro page for every rink we list near downtown, and ask the rink if you are looking for a pop-up the listing never described.

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Columbus

Columbus has 1 qualifying listing inside 30 miles. Coffman Park Ice Rink (seasonal) in Dublin puts "seasonal" in the name. That is one listing, not a page. Greater Springfield Partnership Outdoor Ice Rink in Springfield, Ohio, is named as an outdoor ice rink.

It is about 43 miles from downtown Columbus, outside the circle this site uses for metro pages. Ohio does not get a Columbus outdoor hub from the current listings. The rink pages above are the supported ones.

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Jacksonville

The Jacksonville circle has 1 listed rink and 0 with outdoor or holiday wording. That is not a hub, and it is not enough data to invent one. Community First Igloo is the rink inside that circle. Its name and description do not say the ice is outdoors and do not name a holiday rink.

If you are looking for outdoor ice in north Florida, the honest answer from this directory is that the listing is not there. Check with local parks, and use the Florida rink list for indoor ice we do have.

Baltimore

Baltimore has 2 qualifying listings inside 30 miles, short of a separate outdoor page. They are Glen Burnie Outdoor Ice Skating in Glen Burnie and Outdoor Ice Skating in Nottingham. Glen Burnie is already on the Washington outdoor page because it is inside 30 miles of that downtown too.

Baltimore's Christmas page is the seasonal roundup. It is a different list from a wording-checked outdoor page.

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Fargo

Fargo is the city that clears the bar outside the big metros. 12 listings are named as seasonal ice skating rinks at city parks. They do not say outdoor, they mostly have no hours, and they mostly have no Google rating.

The page is still worth publishing because it is a real set of park rinks, not one rink repeated. Confirm which parks are open before you drive.

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More listings that did not get a hub

These listings passed the same name-and-description test, and their city or metro did not reach three. A pond, a ribbon, and a holiday name are labeled by the words in the listing. They are not a ranking of the best outdoor ice in the state.

The outdoor tag index is a different list. It includes any listing the tag marked, even when the word outdoor belongs to a pool or a playground. The pages on this guide are the narrower set. Metro hubs and state pages still list every rink, indoor and outdoor.

Frequently asked questions

Does this guide list every outdoor rink in the United States?

No. A rink is included only when its own name or description says the ice is outdoors, names a skating ribbon, ice trail, or skating pond, or names a seasonal or holiday rink without describing the ice as indoor. Many outdoor rinks never say so on their Google listing. Those gaps are intentional.

Are these rinks open for the 2026 holidays?

We do not have 2026 opening dates or closing dates. Listings that say seasonal or holiday ice are pop-ups or winter-only sheets, and the season changes every year. Hours on a rink page, if any, are from the Google listing as of October 8, 2026. Confirm the date, the session, and the price with the rink.

Why is there no outdoor page for my city?

A city or metro page is published only when at least three listings qualify under that wording test. One rink, or two, stays on its own rink page. Holiday listings that do not say outdoor may still appear on a Christmas page when that metro has enough seasonal tags.

How is an outdoor page different from a Christmas page?

Christmas pages collect listings tagged outdoor or seasonal within 30 miles, and that tag can include an indoor rink that is open seasonally.

Outdoor pages on this guide read the name and description more strictly, and they say when a listing is holiday wording rather than a rink that calls itself outdoor.

Listing data from public Google business profiles, last updated October 8, 2026. Report a correction.

Outdoor Ice Skating Near Me: Outdoor Rinks and Holiday Rinks (2026)

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