For cities, parks & corporate events
Municipal Synthetic Ice Rinks. Built to Run All Season.
Turnkey synthetic ice rinks for plazas, parks and downtowns. No refrigeration plant, no water hookup, no ice crew. Tell us about your site and we’ll design the layout for free.
Put a Rink Where Your City Gathers
A municipal synthetic ice rink is a boarded skating rink built from interlocking polymer panels you skate on with regular ice skates, with no water and no refrigeration. Global Synthetic Ice rinks are sized to your site and install on any flat, stable base: asphalt, concrete, pavers, decking or, with a subfloor, grass. These are the places cities turn into ice most often.
Downtown Plazas
Give the square a reason to stay lit after dinner. Shape the rink around trees, fountains and storefronts.
Parks & Rec Fields
Open a rink where the ball fields are. Pack it down and store it when the season turns.
Parking Lots
Asphalt is a fine base. Add boards, fencing and lights, and an empty lot becomes the busiest spot in town.
Festivals & Events
Tree lightings, markets, fairgrounds and corporate events. The rink is the centerpiece and comes back out every year.
Warm-Weather Cities
Skating that doesn’t depend on the forecast. The surface doesn’t melt, so a warm week doesn’t close you.
Museums & Centers
Children’s museums, science centers, community centers, even indoor arenas. If the base is flat and hard, it can be a rink.
Why Cities Choose Synthetic Ice
Built for a municipal budget and a municipal calendar. Safe, durable, and light on upkeep.
No Ice Plant
No refrigeration, water or power for the skating surface. No chiller to buy, no glycol lines, nothing to resurface.
Any Weather
A thaw, a rain day or a mild December doesn’t cancel sessions. Your season is as long as you want to staff it.
Staff-Run
Parks and events crews open, close and clean it. We train them at install. No refrigeration technician on payroll.
Yours to Keep
One purchase comes back out every season. Take it down, store it flat, put it out next winter.
How a Municipal Rink Comes Together
Any Size. Any Shape. Built to Your Site.
Build any dimensions or shape your site calls for, from a rectangle in a parking lot to a rounded sheet in a park to a loop through a square.
We don’t sell fixed rink sizes. Your site decides the size, and your free layout shows exactly how it fits.
Made by People Who Run Rinks
We make the panels, set the rink and run our own, so we know what a busy Saturday asks of one: the sessions, the staffing, the queues, the cleanup. Your layout is built around how your city will actually use it.
25+
Years Making Synthetic Ice
20+
Years Operating Our Own Rinks
7-Year
Manufacturing Warranty
Any Size
Sized to Your Site
One Surface. A Schedule That Fills It.
Ask us how we block our own sessions. It’s usually the difference between a rink that pays for itself and one that sits empty on weekday afternoons.
- Public skate sessions
- School and rec department hours
- Tree lightings and holiday markets
- Birthday parties and group bookings
- Learn-to-skate programs
- Private rentals and corporate events
- Stick-and-puck and club ice
- Sponsor activations on the boards
A Rink Your City Can Rent to Corporate Events
Company holiday parties, client events, brand activations and team buyouts all want something people remember. The same panels run in pro-arena plazas and city squares alike. A rink on your plaza, park or fairground gives them one, and gives your city a new revenue line.
- Private buyouts of the full rink by the hour or evening
- Sponsor and brand graphics on the boards and in the surface
- Lighting, lounges and fencing sized for a guest list
- Courtyards, rooftops and indoor venues as well as outdoor sites
Sock Skating Is the Newest Trend.
Sock skating is the newest trend in skating, and it’s huge at children’s museums and science centers. Our seamless design is what makes it work: a smooth, continuous surface that lets our ice be the best on the market for sock skating. No renting skates, sizing, lacing or sharpening, so more people say yes to a first visit.
- Children’s museums and science centers, where it works as a hands-on exhibit
- Toddlers and first-timers who aren’t ready for blades
- Birthday parties and group bookings with no skate rental line
- A low-cost session for community centers and rec programs
- Corporate and holiday guests who just want to try it
Sock skating is its own session type, so you can sell it alongside regular skate time.
Paying for It Is Part of the Plan
Sponsor-Ready Boards
Board graphics and sponsor panels are a standard option, and a common way for cities to offset the cost of the rink.
A Schedule That Earns
Public skate, lessons, rentals and events. We’ll share how we’ve filled our own rinks.
The Municipal Rink Planner
A free, council-ready checklist covering site requirements, program planning, funding ideas and the questions to ask any vendor.
Why Not Refrigerated Ice?
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Refrigerated
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Synthetic
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No refrigeration plant
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Required
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None
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No water or resurfacing
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Daily flooding
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None
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Weather
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A warm week can close it
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Runs in any weather
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Take down and store
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Fixed in place
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Stores flat
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Real ice glides more easily. Synthetic is denser and rewards good technique.
Questions From Cities
No. There’s no water, no refrigeration and nothing to resurface. It skates as delivered, and your crew follows the care routine we train them on at install.
The surface doesn’t melt, so a warm spell, a rain day or an early thaw doesn’t take the rink away. The tab geometry flexes with temperature swings, so seams stay tight without buckling.
Any size and any shape your site calls for. We draw your free layout to your exact space and show you how it fits before anything is built.
A flat, stable, hard base: asphalt, concrete, pavers or decking. Building on grass? We supply a subfloor that gives the rink the firm, level base it needs. Some outdoor sites need an underlayment layer and some don’t. We tell you which yours is before you budget.
No ice technician and no refrigeration contract. Parks staff and seasonal hires can open, run and close it. We train your people during installation.
Hose it down or pressure-wash it with a mild detergent (no bleach), then squeegee it dry. Don’t use mops. Fine shavings are normal; they’re part of what lets the blade glide.
Skates need to be sharp. We recommend a 5/8″ radius, with a hand stone between machine sharpenings. Hockey stops wear blades faster than on ice, so C-turns and glide stops make a sharpening last longer.
Every panel carries a 7-year warranty against manufacturing defects. We’ve never had a warranty claim.
Yes. Board graphics and sponsor panels are a standard option, and a common way for cities to offset the cost of the rink.
The price depends on your footprint and the options you choose. Every layout is different, so we don’t publish a price list. We quote after we design your free layout: send us your site and we’ll send you both, itemized line by line.
Yes. Global Synthetic Ice is the company, Super-Glide® is our surface platform, and SLICK is its current generation. Same people, same factory.
Send Us Your Site.
Tell us about your space and the date you’d like to open. We’ll send back a free layout and an itemized quote.
(866) 574-1932 · info@sk8gsi.com