Lanarkshire Ice Rink (Hamilton)

Hamilton · Public skating times & prices

Built by local curlers and opened on 29 September 1967 as a six-sheet curling rink that also serves skaters.

Public skating at Lanarkshire Ice Rink (Hamilton): the next 7 days

Saturday 17 October

  • · Public skating
Address
Off Muir Street, Hamilton, ML3 6BS
Phone
01698 282 448
Website
lanarkshireicerink.blogspot.com
The Hamilton ice rink building seen across its car park — Lanarkshire Ice Rink (Hamilton)
The Hamilton ice rink building seen across its car park Photo: Darrin Antrobus, via Geograph and Wikimedia Commons · Source · CC BY-SA 2.0
A public skating session with a penguin skating aid on the rink's ice — Lanarkshire Ice Rink (Hamilton)
A public skating session with a penguin skating aid on the rink's ice Photo: Google Maps listing · Source

A curlers' rink at Hamilton's Low Parks, opened in 1967

Lanarkshire Ice Rink in Hamilton's Low Parks was started by a pharmacist. Tom Dickson came back from a Rotary tour of Canada in 1965 determined to build a local rink, and he and other curling enthusiasts raised the capital to buy land and build it. The Lanarkshire Ice Rink Company, formed largely by the area's farming community, opened the building on 29 September 1967 after about a year of construction. It was built mainly for curlers, with skating provided for as well.

A single ice surface divides into six curling sheets. A wall of angled mirrors at the far end from the clubhouse gives a clear overhead view of the stones in play, which the Pollok club describes as unique. Lanark and New Monklands Curling Club is one of the facility's owners. Squash courts were added in 1975, and the rink hosts a large number of curling clubs alongside public skating.

Curling is still the first sport of the season here: for 2026/27 the rink announced curling from 28 September and public ice skating from 10 October.

Before you head out.

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

Admission

Entry is £8.00, a family ticket is £25.00 (two adults and two children, or one adult and three children under 16), and children under 5 get free entry and skate hire.

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Skates & rentals

Skate hire is £4.00 and penguin skating aids are £3.00 for 30 minutes; children under 5 get free skate hire.

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Skating with children

Children under 5 skate free, with free skate hire, and penguin skating aids can be hired for the public session.

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