The Ribbon at Glass City Metropark

Public skating at The Ribbon at Glass City Metropark: the next 7 days

Currently out of season Metroparks Toledo's page gives The Ribbon's 2026/27 ice skating season as 14 November 2026 to 28 February 2027, weather permitting, and says it may be extended one week at a time through 14 March. Checked on 5 October 2026. Official schedule update

A 1,000-foot refrigerated skating trail

The Ribbon is a 1,000-foot paved loop trail at Glass City Metropark that is refrigerated in winter, giving 25,000 square feet of ice over rolling hills and soft curves. Metroparks Toledo announced preview days in January 2023 and opened the trail from February 4 to 20, nearly a year before its first regular season that November. The second phase of the park around it opened in June 2023.

Fourteen miles of tubing under the pavement carry the refrigerant, and a Zamboni keeps the surface smooth. The loop connects to the Pond, a 5,000-square-foot rink meant for beginning skaters and for anyone taking a break from the trail. Metroparks calls The Ribbon the region's only roller skating and ice skating trail: in warm weather the same loop is used for roller skates, roller blades, kick scooters and balance bikes.

The Hylant Family Foundation supports The Ribbon. Metroparks said in 2023 that it would be managed by Rink Management Services Corp., which also operates the ice ribbon at Maggie Daley Park in Chicago. The park's first phase opened in December 2020, on land that was home to the Maumee Rolling Mills steel company in the 1880s.

Before you head out.

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

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