Full ice sheet from the red bleacher seating during a Zamboni resurfacing pass, with 'VISITOR'/'HOME' box signage and the facility's logo on the ice center circle.Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
City-owned rink run by a non-profit since 2014
The Hagerstown Ice Rink was built in 1997 on nine acres next to Fairgrounds Park, a 40,500-square-foot building that the City of Hagerstown still owns. Since April 2014 it has been run by the Hagerstown Ice Amateur Athletic Association, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, under an agreement in which the city pays 75 percent of capital improvements to the building and ice-making equipment.
The complex holds a single National Hockey League-size rink. Two high school hockey programs call it their home rink: the Washington County Northstars, formed in 2007 and drawn mainly from the Washington County region, and the West Virginia Vipers, made up mostly of players from West Virginia's eastern panhandle. The rink's own Hammerheads developmental travel teams compete in the Capital Corridor Hockey League.
In 2022 the city tendered the removal of the building's old dehumidification equipment and the installation of new units. The skating school's skaters perform in the Winter Wonderland Skating Spectacular, the December 2025 skate show, and the rink runs a Try Hockey for Free event on October 3 that is open to both boys and girls.
Before you head out.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Admission
Public Skate admission is $7.00 for all ages. Freestyle sessions cost $14.00 for a 60-minute session or $7.00 for a 30-minute session. Adult Drop-In Hockey (18 and over) costs $15.00 for day-time sessions and $20.00 for night sessions; the first two goalies play free.