McFarland Community Ice Arena

McFarland, WI · Public skating times & prices

McFarland's volunteer-built 1994 rink: south central Wisconsin's first Olympic sheet, now with a second rink.

Public skating at McFarland Community Ice Arena: the next 7 days

No public skating is posted for the next 7 days. New sessions show here as soon as the rink posts them.

Address
4812 Marsh Rd, McFarland, WI 53558
Phone
(608) 838-7451
Website
mcfarlandice.org
The arena's new stone-and-glass entrance addition and long dark-blue metal hall behind it, seen across a freshly striped parking lot under a blue sky. — McFarland Community Ice Arena
The arena's new stone-and-glass entrance addition and long dark-blue metal hall behind it, seen across a freshly striped parking lot under a blue sky. Photo: McFarland Community Ice Arena (McFarland Hockey Inc.) · Source
The empty Starion Bank training rink: fresh white ice with the Starion Bank logo at centre, red and blue lines, and white boards with glass along the far side. — McFarland Community Ice Arena
The empty Starion Bank training rink: fresh white ice with the Starion Bank logo at centre, red and blue lines, and white boards with glass along the far side. Photo: McFarland Community Ice Arena (McFarland Hockey Inc.) · Source

Built with bingo money and a farmer's land deal

McFarland's hockey began outdoors in 1977, when the group that became McFarland Youth Hockey Association skated at Lewis Park and shoveled the rink before every practice and game. From 1983, weekly bingo at the Park Ponderosa Ballroom raised money toward an indoor arena, and a deal for land on Harvey Peterson's farm on the north edge of the village gave the rink its site.

Ground was broken in April 1994 with UW coach Jeff Sauer among those attending, and the arena opened that September with a public open skate during the McFarland Family Festival weekend. Its Spartan Rink was the first Olympic-size sheet in south central Wisconsin. McFarland High School Hockey, the youth association and adult recreational leagues are based here, and the independently owned non-profit also hosts figure skating exhibitions and speed skating nationals.

Solar panels arrived on Earth Day 2024 and are expected to generate about 7.86 million kilowatt-hours over 30 years. In May 2025, nine months after groundbreaking, an expansion added the 50-by-90-foot Starion Bank training rink, a high school locker room and an athletic training center.

Before you head out.

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

Skates & rentals

Rental figure and hockey skates are available at public open skates.

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Skating with children

Parents and guardians must keep children from running wild, even while watching them; in the lobby, skates are allowed only on the rubber floor between the Spartan Rink doors, the concession area and the restrooms.

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