Great place, feels super cozy... Great music, you can't…read moreskate? No problem they have coaches who are super friendly and make sure you enjoy it... After class you get to stay and practice!

Such happiness comes over me when I see a Roller Rink. One of the Funnest Activities I ever had as…read morea kid. A time to enjoy with friends and family, pure joyous experiences. So when I was shopping nearby and saw their Nice Big Sign, I had to stop! So much fun. The entryway, Is like a blast to the past. nostalgia. Very busy place, they had a bunch of kids parties and she still was kind to discuss skating options. Their busy day is Saturday. They do book parties. Sessions. There was a DJ. A lot of fun!!! Parking was across the street for free for customers. $9, session $4 skates. Concessions inside Another awesome business that's been in their community Taking care of their community and offering something so special and unique. Not only for our growing generations but the ones that enjoyed them as kids as well. It's a great place to be oneself and free. To enjoy music And a form of dance; just on wheels. You can enhance your balance abilities , you can gain encouragement in yourself. It's not a Team sport, so you determine your skill level. But it's fun. Kids love it. Adults also. Great for families. Awesome area. Definitely you should stop and enjoy it

Sports photographers: rejoice! This arena has genuinely the best glass and best lighting I've ever…read moreexperienced to the point I actually got to turn down my ISO & up my shutter speed. My team was on the west rink, for reference. There's plenty of seating for this rink too, including high top tables!

I'm a fan of this barn…read more I especially like the stadium feel of the main rink and the various options for seating. My son said the ice was "decent", though it was a little uneven in a few spots. I think there needs to be a more efficient way to communicate when a game is at the John street barn, so that you're not having to get out at the main location. We had part of a tournament at this location and it was conducive to keeping the kids engaged, with the outdoor fields and areas to fill the down time.

Update on this beautiful facility: Parking lot under…read moreconstruction. They have an elevator so no need to take the stairs if you have issues. Pro shop on site. Impressive effort by local families in showing hospitality to the visitors from Sweden.

We enjoyed our first visit to this very nice Glenview Community Ice Center.  A major $30 million…read morerenovation was completed on it back in 2020, but I never saw the former facility, only the current brand newish state.  It has two NHL sized hockey rinks and a 2nd floor grandstand along with a small bar for one of the rinks.  It also has a pro shop, training rooms, and offers the usual skating classes and hockey programs.  They currently have a couple hours of public skating during each day of the week and that's what the grand-darlings and their mom came in for during a school holiday today and we took the opportunity to visit.  They have a family pass and it only takes 3.5 visits to break even on that pass, so it's a good deal at a first rate facility.  Visiting here brought back memories of the many hours we spent in the stands of the Skokie Skatium ice arena and a Houston ice arena as the parents of a youth figure skater, and I can attest that this is a very nice facility.  Big thumbs up!

Discovered this place on a whim while looking for a fun summer indoor activity for kids to do on a…read moreweekday. We loved it! Reasonable rates, and the pizza meal deal (incl skates and rentals) was a great value. Fun music, friendly staff, not overly crowded, good old-time fun for sure! So glad we discovered this place.

I would've read it this place of fine because it has decent prices for food and skate rentals, but…read morethe DJ plays the oldest music. Skating ring full of people under 15 and he's playing music from the 1970s. Awake up and Read the room !!

Amazing!!!! Wow! I love ice skating and this was my first time on a ribbon and now I'm ruined for…read morelife and can never return to a tiny circular holiday rink again. This is way better! So freeing! So much more room and it's a fun course. I think the course is almost a half mile long. Beautiful downtown views and it's such a nice course in Maggie Daley Park. Friendly and helpful staff. Lockers available to rent. Refreshments available outside. I have my own skates so it's free if I skate during the first session, and only $5 any other time. I came here last week on my birthday and it was the perfect start to my special day. It brought me so much joy and I can't wait to return.

We went during Christmas break. You need to book your visit beforehand. When I book the only time…read moreavailable was from 8-10am. If you bring your own skate it's free. I like this place has railing all around and it is not the traditional round more like a trail. Feel quite iconic to skate here during our Chicago visit. I had been thinking about this since I cam in the summer.

Oakton Sports Complex is a virtually brand new facility after a 17 month $33 million rebuild…read moreproject was recently completed in Aug 2025. Yippee for Park Ridge residents! The wife and I dropped in for the first time to check the place out and to get in our fitness steps. It was very nice to use the free, uncrowded, and comfortable walking track in the Athletic Field space. The weekday walking hours are 6am-4pm, except Wednesday when it is 8am-4pm. The walking track encircles an indoor soccer field. There are also free lockers for the storage of your personal items. At the risk of ruining things with this review lol, this place is a hidden gem for us! As I was looking around at the historical info ads about this long standing facility, I took a photo of the past Olympians from this ice center. A voice out of nowhere said "make sure to get a photo of the guy in red". The guy in red in the ad photo was David Santee, a two time (1976 and 1980) USA Olympian and sure enough the voice out of nowhere belonged to none other than David Santee himself lol! You can check the photo - he's not a fake and he is a retired director of this facility and also currently a skating coach here. Pretty cool coincidental run-in and David is a very loyal Park Ridge native, hooray! Besides the Athletic Field, there is the Ice Arena which houses a brand new studio rink for their figure skating and hockey programs. Big thumbs up for this new community asset and congratulations to the Park Ridge Park District on the completion of their very successful rebuild project.

Wow, I see that the most recent review is almost three years old now--definitely time for a new…read moreone! As I write this review for what's currently listed on Yelp as Oakton Ice Arena (until the updates I submitted are approved, anyway), it's actually a completely new facility. That's not hyperbole--the place was rebuilt from the ground up. I never visited the old arena, but have been to the new one several times since I live nearby and we also attended the grand opening of the new facility (which opened in August 2025). In addition to the main ice rink, they have a studio rink which is a fraction of the size, as well as an indoor athletic field. There's an indoor walking track that forms the perimeter of the athletic field, and though they open at 9 a.m., the walking track opens at 6 and is free of charge to use. They have a nice concessions area, which includes an outdoor patio in the warm weather months. As a park district facility, they have a variety of events and classes and you can also rent space in the building for your own events. There's classes for all ages; I signed my daughter up for baseball (the only girl!) and we'll try soccer in a few weeks. I'm also curious about the adult ice skating classes, and I'll definitely be looking into the children's ice skating when she's old enough to enroll. They have adult leagues for broom ball, volleyball, ice bocce, basketball.... The instructors are top-notch as well. I believe the facility has a golf range that will be opening in spring or summer 2026. There's a lot of parking here. I haven't ever seen it near full. They have quite a few electronic vehicle spots with chargers; possibly too many tbh but I'm probably misremembering how many there are. It's also just a couple blocks from the Dee Road Metra station, so it's easily accessible by public transportation as well. 2026 - Review #1

Visiting the Chicago area from Southern California, where rollerskating rings are a few and far…read morebetween, we found sweet little rollerskating rink across the swamp (?) from our airbnb. I had so much fun. It was a true throwback 30+ years to my childhood. It was fun to get out on the rink and skate like I was eight years old again. The staff were super friendly. We went once on Saturday night and learned that they had a Sunday afternoon special for families, four people for $35 including skates, so we came back again the following day. Amazing time. Great fun. Highly recommend.

This was about a 45 minute drive from home, down some side streets at the end of a run-down strip…read moremall. I guess roller rinks are really dying. Plenty of parking though at this place. We attended a party, 12 long tables and a lot of sparkly deco. For kids it's great. Soft drinks, DJ, some food.

Biggest dump in Chicagoland. The place is totally unsafe. No carbon monoxide detector, no AED and…read moremold all over the place. The owner cares about no one but himself. He lies to his customers all the time and has bounced employees pay checks many times.

The ice is nice and NHL rink has nice glass. The reason to be here in the first place...Play…read morehockey. But the locker rooms are extremely small and disgusting in side them. Toilet was clogged with human poop in it, the base of the sink made from plywood and smells like mold. No detailed review needed here ... feels like you went back 40 years ago. Maintenance is majorly needed on this place at minimum if not a major overhaul.