East Haven Ice Rink

East Haven, CT · Public skating times & prices

East Haven's town-run single-sheet rink, closed by a piping leak and back on the ice after a 2022 rebuild

Public skating at East Haven Ice Rink: the next 7 days

Friday, October 16

  • · Public Skate · $10

Sunday, October 18

  • · Public Skate · $10

Admission and skate rental

Admission
$10 · Official source
Skate rental
$5 · Official source
Address
71 Hudson Street, East Haven, CT 06512
Phone
(203) 468-3367
Website
easthavenct.myrec.com
Front entrance of the East Haven rink, brick and pebble-panel facade with raised lettering reading "Pasquale G. 'Patsy' DiLungo Veterans Memorial Ice Rink" above three sets of glass doors, rooftop HVAC units visible. — East Haven Ice Rink
Front entrance of the East Haven rink, brick and pebble-panel facade with raised lettering reading "Pasquale G. 'Patsy' DiLungo Veterans Memorial Ice Rink" above three sets of glass doors, rooftop HVAC units visible. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
A game seen from the bleachers, players spread across a wide sheet under a white-trussed ceiling with a yellow rail along the near boards. — East Haven Ice Rink
A game seen from the bleachers, players spread across a wide sheet under a white-trussed ceiling with a yellow rail along the near boards. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source

Rebuilt from the floor up in 2022

East Haven Ice Rink is the town's Patsy DiLungo Veteran's Memorial Ice Rink, a single-sheet municipal arena. It has been teaching local kids to skate for decades: one of its current Learn to Skate instructors learned here in the 1970s, and another got her start on the same ice. Before it closed, the rink hosted East Haven High School, East Haven Youth Hockey, Guilford High School and the Shoreline Figure Skaters alongside lessons, leagues and camps.

The rink shut down after a leak was found in the ice-floor piping, and town officials described years of disrepair behind the closure. Work to rescue it started in 2021 and was completed in 2022. The rebuild replaced the cold floor and its piping, installed new dasher boards and rubber flooring, replaced the dehumidification system entirely, and swapped the discontinued R404A refrigerant plant for new ice-making equipment with gas-detection sensors and a new electrical switchboard. The finished building measures 33,650 square feet.

Skating lessons returned in 2023-24, when the town's recreation department and rink staff relaunched East Haven Learn to Skate. East Haven Youth Hockey still calls the rink home, and a new electric Mammoth ice resurfacer now floods the single sheet. The building runs cold, especially in winter, which many visitors treat as part of the rink experience.

Before you head out.

Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.

Admission

Public Skate at the Patsy DiLungo Veteran's Memorial Ice Rink costs $10 per person admission.

Source checked · · Official source

Skates & rentals

Skate rental at Public Skate costs $5.

Source checked · · Official source

A source check records what the rink published on that date. Session-specific booking details take precedence.