The rink's green-and-white corrugated metal exterior wall and glass entry doors decorated with hockey and curling graphics, seen across an empty parking lot with mountains behind.Photo: Glacier Ice Rink · SourceEmpty full ice sheet with curling house circles and a blue hockey crease, sponsor-banner dasher boards (including a Zootown Sports Cards banner) and roof trusses overhead.Photo: Glacier Ice Rink · Source
Missoula's nonprofit rink, born in a cow barn
Glacier Ice Rink is Missoula's community nonprofit ice rink, on the Missoula County Fairgrounds. Since 1997 it has offered affordable hockey, skating and other ice recreation, growing from modest beginnings in a converted cow barn into the two-sheet facility it is today.
It now has two NHL-size sheets: an indoor rink open from late August or early September through May, and a covered outdoor rink open October through March. There are eight locker rooms, four of them heated, and a skate shop with sharpening and rental skates, and the nonprofit keeps youth hockey affordable with free equipment for every Learn to Play participant.
The rink welcomes nearly 150,000 visits a year for hockey, public skating, figure skating, curling, school programs and tournaments, and its calendar mixes regular sessions with events such as free Girls Try Hockey days and a Dolly Parton-themed public skate in September 2026.
Before you head out.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Admission
Public Skate is $10 on weekends (rental skates $3 extra) and $7 on weekdays, including skate rental; children 4 and under are free. Family Skate is $12 on weekends and $7 on weekdays, both including skate rental. Senior Skate (ages 50+) is $6, including skate rental. Tot Skate is $6, including skate rental. Homeschool Skate is $6, including skate rental. Pick-Up Hockey is $12 on weekdays and $15 on weekends; goalies are free. Stick & Puck is $9 on weekdays and $12 on weekends; goalies are free. Advanced Figure Skating Practice is $12 on weekdays and $15 on weekends.
