The OhioHealth Chiller Ice Rinks sign on the stone front wall, with landscaped beds and a picnic table by the entrancePhoto: Greater Columbus Sports Commission · SourceA wide fisheye view of the sheet from beside the boards, a team spread across the ice under a steel ceiling with sponsor boards around it.Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
Lewis Center's three-sheet Chiller, built in 2004
Rodgers Incorporated built Chiller North in 2004 as a two-rink facility, with two NHL regulation sheets, ten dressing rooms and seating for 1,000 spectators, planned as the home of Olentangy and Thomas Worthington high school hockey and youth and adult leagues. When the first Chiller opened in Dublin in 1993, Central Ohio had one youth hockey association of 200 players; by 2018 it had six organizations with more than 3,000.
That growth drove the expansion announced on January 16, 2018 by the Chillers and JMAC, the Blue Jackets' parent company: a $5 million, 30,000-square-foot addition with a third 200-by-85-foot NHL rink, four public locker rooms with showers and two larger private locker rooms as home base for high school and travel teams, with a goal of opening the new sheet in December 2018.
Chiller North today has three NHL regulation rinks, 15 public dressing rooms and an enclosed second-story viewing area where spectators watch out of the cold. Its major tenants are the Olentangy, Olentangy Liberty, Olentangy Orange, Thomas Worthington and Worthington Kilbourne high school teams, the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets and the Capital Amateur Hockey Association. The USPHL's Columbus Mavericks played home games here in the 2024-25 season, and the Blue Jackets ran their prospect development camp on this ice from July 2 to 5, 2023.
Before you head out.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Admission
Public-skate admission is set by session, not by location: Noon Skate $8 for ages 6 and up and $4 for ages 5 and under; Public Sk8 and Adult Sk8 $10 and $4; Cheap Skate $6, free with skate rental included for ages 5 and under; Friday Night Meltdown a flat $18 for all ages with rental included. A Family of Four ticket is $50 including rentals and excludes Noon Skate and Friday Night Meltdown. Freestyle ice is $16.00 per hour, bought online in advance. Open Hockey drop-in sessions (Adult Drop-In, 50+ Drop-In, TGIF 40+, Women's Drop-In and the 14-17 age group) are $16 per person, goalies play free or for a refundable $16.
Skate rental is $5 extra for Noon Skate, Public Skate and Cheap Skate (free with the 5-and-under Cheap Skate admission), and is included in the Friday Night Meltdown ticket, the family-of-four ticket, and the quarterly pass.
Public skating is walk-in with no reservation required; tickets are purchased on arrival. The published dated schedule currently runs Noon Skate, Public Skate and Friday Night Meltdown sessions from mid-September through mid-November 2026, but does not list any Cheap Skate dates in that window.
Admission for ages 5 and under is $4 at Noon Skate and Public Skate, and free (with rental included) at Cheap Skate. The $50 family-of-four ticket includes admission and rentals for four people but does not apply to Noon Skate or Friday Night Meltdown.
