Places: Skating
Rotary Rink
Rotary Rink at Fountain Plaza is celebrating its 12th Anniversary season as Downtown Buffalo’s only free-to-the-public outdoor skating rink. Rotary Rink was completed in 1991 after more than a decade of planning and design and is named after the Rotary Club of Buffalo, who generously made a $500,000 commitment to the project. In 1998, Buffalo Place Inc. partnered with the City of Buffalo to manage the outdoor skating Rink in Downtown Buffalo, offering free ice-skating and the unique opportunity to skate outdoors in an urban setting. Located in close proximity to the Theatre and Entertainment Districts of Downtown and surrounded by many of Buffalo’s award winning eateries, Rotary Rink is an important initiative to the continued success of Downtown Buffalo. The free, above-ground Light Rail Rapid Transit systems offers skaters easy transport to and from Buffalo’s exciting destinations.
Holiday Twin Rinks
Built during the Buffalo hockey fever of 1971 when the Sabres came to town, Holiday Twin Rinks has been serving everyone from senior leagues to mini-mite kids leagues to open skates and everything in between. Holiday Twin Rinks on Broadway in Cheektowaga may not be the most luxurious rink in town but it gets the job done when it come to providing a smooth set of ice when you need it. From early mornings to mid-night skates and at all times during the day you can find someone or somebody at Holiday. The rinks also serve as home to multiple championship winning Buffalo Regals youth hockey association.
Time Warner Classic Rink
Shortly after the historic 2008 Winter Classic Game at Ralph Wilson StadiumThe Winter Classic portable rink system was purchased and erected as a tribute rink to this historic event in the center of the Village of East Aurora. The Winter Classic rink is now operating under an open-sided pavilion roof in East Aurora. The rink also offers Learn-to-Skate and Beginner Hockey programs including "Mommy, Daddy and Me" program for preschoolers. The rink provides a great opportunity to learn to skate for parents and kids.
Northtown Center
The 1,800-seat multipurpose arena in Amherst located adjacent to UB North features three NHL regulation-sized ice sheets as well as an Olympic-sized ice sheet. The facility also has a roller hockey rink, sports training facility, restaurant, and pro shop.
The Northtown Center also serves as a practice facility for the Buffalo Sabresand is the home to the University at Buffalo Bulls men's ice hockey team competing at the ACHA Division I level in the Eastern Collegiate Hockey Leagueas well as the home of Buffalo Wings, a professional inline hockey team competing in Major League Roller Hockey. The rink also serves the Buffalo Jr. Sabres of the Ontario Junior A Hockey League. The arena is home to several local high school ice hockey teams, and is used by local figure skating clubs, youth, and adult recreational ice hockey leagues, as well as public skating.!