“We have an outdoor kitchen with a banquette that ... Image The Deplazes kids regularly practice on their backyard ice rink with friends and members of their ice hockey team.Credit ...

To fully freeze over, outdoor ice rinks need several straight days ... the cost and constant maintenance that comes with a backyard rink to seize on one, maybe two, weeks of ideal conditions.

and with it has come a proper outdoor skating season, with solid ice the last few weeks. “There’s very few people who are as happy now as backyard rink owners,” said Brian Packard of North ...

Some people might have questioned whether David Weiss, 64, was taking his home ice-rink hobby a little ... a glass room overlooking his backyard outdoor hockey rink, emulating a professional ...

Bara said his outdoor rink (ODR ... The former hockey player runs a backyard ice rink Facebook group with Bara. He said people have been seeking new ways to explore the outdoors, and with more ...

Keegan Johnson, a third-year student at the University of Minnesota and a member of the University’s men’s club hockey team, said he started skating at two years old on an outdoor ice rink his dad put ...

has been running a program called RinkWatch that engages backyard rink makers and users in measuring ice and weather conditions. It’s a volunteer, citizen science project, meaning data is ...

On Dec. 7, Woodland’s first-ever outdoor ice skating rink will open for the holiday season, giving residents a chance to experience winter magic right in their backyard. “This is a historic ...