The Ice Pond at Waunakee

Waunakee, WI · Public skating times & prices

Opened in November 2010; home ice for Wildcat Youth Hockey and the Waunakee and DeForest high school teams

Public skating at The Ice Pond at Waunakee: the next 7 days

Friday, October 16

  • · Public Skate · $10

Admission and skate rental

Admission
$10–$26 · Official source
Address
1110 Prairie View Drive, Waunakee, WI 53597
Phone
608-850-2828
Website
theicepond.com
Aerial view of The Ice Pond at Waunakee: a long white metal-sided building with its parking lot beside it, set among green fields under a cloudy evening sky. — The Ice Pond at Waunakee
Aerial view of The Ice Pond at Waunakee: a long white metal-sided building with its parking lot beside it, set among green fields under a cloudy evening sky. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
The ice from behind the glass under the bright white arched roof, with a youth game at the near end and sponsor boards along the far side. — The Ice Pond at Waunakee
The ice from behind the glass under the bright white arched roof, with a youth game at the near end and sponsor boards along the far side. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source

Opened November 1, 2010 as the Waunakee DeForest Ice Rink

The Ice Pond at Waunakee opened as the Waunakee DeForest Ice Rink with a ribbon cutting on November 1, 2010, nearly six years after a fund was set up to study building a rink. The building had its tenants from the first week: Wildcat Youth Hockey's Mites, Squirts and Pee Wees, the Waunakee and DeForest boys' teams and the Capital Cougars girls' team all moved their practices onto home ice, and Waunakee gained a place to host hockey tournaments and figure skating shows.

The building shares its design with the ice arena in Oregon, Wisconsin, and was built with an ammonia rather than freon cooling system. Locker rooms were built for each of the three high school teams, with four more for youth teams, and the rink was wired for sound, with a disco ball and lighting. Open skating for all ages was part of the plan from the start.

Today the Wildcat Youth Hockey Association, which draws boys and girls from Waunakee, DeForest, Lodi, Poynette and surrounding communities, plays most of its practices and home games here, and Waunakee high school hockey still calls the Ice Pond its rink. A planned Skills Suite on the mezzanine would add a multi-use gymnasium, two shooting and passing rooms and storage for the association.

Before you head out.

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

Admission

Open skating at the Ice Pond is $10 per session. Open Freestyle is $14 for 1 hour, $20 for 1.5 hours and $26 for 2 hours; Stick & Puck is $10; Open Hockey is $10; Teen Skate is $15 with skate rental included.

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Skates & rentals

Skate rental is $3.00, with hockey skates from junior size 8 to adult 13 and figure skates from junior size 9 to adult 12, while supplies last.

Source checked · · Official source

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