The Rec-Plex entrance: a red-brick building with the Rec-Plex sign above a glass entry, a flowering redbud tree and landscaped beds in front.Photo: City of St. Peters · SourceA public skating session on the rink at the Rec-Plex, skaters spread across the ice behind a black rail under a bright arched roof.Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
A 1994 Olympic Festival venue with three sheets of ice
The St. Peters Rec-Plex was built in 1994 and opened with the U.S. Olympic Festival’s aquatic events. Ten years later it hosted the 2004 U.S. Olympic Diving Trials, and in 2007 an expansion nearly doubled the building to 236,000 square feet and added the Rec-Plex South facility.
Today the complex has three NHL-size ice rinks: the North Rink, where adult drop-in hockey and most stick and puck sessions run, and rinks at Rec-Plex South. It is home to the St. Peters Figure Skating Association, and the city partners with the St. Peters Hockey Club to take young players from learning to skate through beginner hockey to club play. In one rink, bleachers that once sat directly on the concrete slab and blocked sightlines have been raised.
Shows by students of the Rec-Plex Skate Academy have become some of the city’s more popular events: a Winter Wonderland on Ice show in December and a Spring Ice Show in May. The academy has added a new candlelight exhibition with a spooky theme.
Before you head out.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
Admission
October 2026 public skating: passholders get admission and skate rentals free. Residents pay $26 for a family, $11 for adults and $9 for youth and seniors. The general public pays $13 for adults, $11 for youth and $11 for seniors and military. Stick & Puck and Adult Drop-In Hockey (18+, ID required) are pre-purchased online in Rec-Connect FLEX Registration, where each is listed at $10.00 an hour, with a $5.00 member discount (so $5 for members). Freestyle (Freestyle 1+ or skaters in a private lesson with a certified Rec-Plex instructor) is pre-purchased online the same way; the October schedule lists 1-hour rates of $15.00 for the general public and $10.50 for passholders, and FLEX Registration sells it in 30-minute slots ($7.50 a slot for the general public and $5.25 for passholders when booking an hour or more; a single 30 minutes is $9.25 or $7). The Tuesday and Friday 6:45-8:45 a.m. freestyle sessions are listed as half price.
