Toyota SportsPlex

Wilkes-Barre, PA · Public skating times & prices

Wilkes-Barre's late-1970s Ice-A-Rama, resurfaced in 2009 as the AHL Penguins' practice rink

Public skating at Toyota SportsPlex: the next 7 days

Friday, October 16

  • · Public Skate · $12

Saturday, October 17

  • · Public Skate · $12

Sunday, October 18

  • · Public Skate · $12

Admission and skate rental

Admission
$12 · Official source
Skate rental
$5 · Official source
Address
38 Coal St, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
Phone
(570) 208-9471
Website
toyotasportsplex.com
Front entrance canopy of the Toyota SportsPlex (Coal Street Complex) with the AHL and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins logos mounted on the peaked overhang, brick and metal-panel building, glass entry doors, and a police-substation sign. — Toyota SportsPlex
Front entrance canopy of the Toyota SportsPlex (Coal Street Complex) with the AHL and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins logos mounted on the peaked overhang, brick and metal-panel building, glass entry doors, and a police-substation sign. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
Wide interior view of the ice sheet from rinkside, dasher boards lined with Toyota dealership ads, banners hanging from the rafters, two distant skaters on the ice — Toyota SportsPlex
Wide interior view of the ice sheet from rinkside, dasher boards lined with Toyota dealership ads, banners hanging from the rafters, two distant skaters on the ice Photo: Toyota SportsPlex · Source

Practice rink of the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins

The Toyota SportsPlex is the former Ice-A-Rama, which opened in Wilkes-Barre in the late 1970s as the city's first indoor rink offering public sessions, skating lessons and hockey teams. The Ice-A-Rama closed in the late 1990s in disrepair. A 2009 federal grant to the Coal Street Project, together with new tenants including the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, got the rink resurfaced and reopened as the Toyota SportsPlex.

The building holds a full-size rink with bleachers and spectator seating around the ice, plus locker rooms and an athletic training room for both teams. The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, the AHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins, use it as their official practice facility, and Wilkes University's men's and women's hockey teams have called it home since 2018. The Diamond City Figure Skating Club, formed in 2009, has been the rink's partner club since that year and keeps its offices in the building. The Anthracite Curling Club names it its home arena, and the rink runs a draft-style D-level adult hockey league alongside a B/C-level league.

A community dek hockey rink, about three quarters the size of a regular ice hockey rink, was added at the SportsPlex in October 2022. The rink's own Coal Street Hockey School is in its 13th year.

Before you head out.

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

Admission

Regular admission for public skating is $12.00.

Source checked · · Official source

Skates & rentals

Skate rental is $5.00.

Source checked · · Official source

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