Location

Around Chatsworth and Chudleigh, S side of Lawrence, East of Avenue Rd. Take Greer Road south from Lawrence (just east of Avenue Road), past Chudleigh to Chatsworth, and take the laneway west to the parking lot. See Satellite Map

Phone: non listed, call 311

Schedule

See Schedule tab

City Councillor

The City Councillor for this rink is Councillor Stintz

Otter Creek (Double Pad) Rink Profile

Rink change area: Pop and coffee machines are in the well-used rink house. Clear signs. Pay phone (works). Parking available on the west side of the rink.

Staff:Staff are friendly and strict about the rules in the rink house.

Maintenance: Zamboni on site and ice in excellent condition on the day of our visit. Ice is cleaned 2 or 3 times a day. Green shovels are used only by zamboni drivers, not building attendants or skaters. There are either 14 or 9 ice maintenance shifts a week.

Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:

2011-2012

Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 44:30 hours a week, during prime time.

Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 23:15 hours a week, during prime time.

*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends

This rink has a double pad so shinny is available when scheduled. Looks like a good scene especially busy at lunch time thanks to local highschools.

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Opening and closing dates:

Opened: Dec.3, 2011
Closes: Feb.26, 2012

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

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Views of the Rink

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From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13

For the skating schedule, go to Otter Creek Rink page on the City website, then click on Skating.

For up to date listings of open rinks (not the same as scheduled openings), see Current Conditions on the cityrinks.ca Home Page

If you notice a different schedule at your rink, please let us know mail@cityrinks.ca
See also the City of Toronto Outdoor Rinks web pages.

From the 2000/2001 LeisurePlan International Outdoor Ice facilities Harmonization Study:

p.80 "The Toronto Board of Education conveyed lands in the proximity of Otter Creek...to the Municipality for the location of an outdoor AIR/tennis court facility and shared use of other recreational facilities on adjacent school property. IN return, the Municipality has exclusive use of of the AIR after 6 p.m."

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

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Rink Diary 2011 - 2012

Saturday Dec.3 2011

The rink was open and there were 17 skaters on the two sides. Very good ice. There were many many signs especially inside the change room, almost all of them some form of "thou shalt not..." -- but no signs telling the opening date.

good game, few helmets

an ugly entryway for a much-loved rink

I asked an older shinny hockey player how he found out that it's opening day at the rink. He said he found it on the internet.

Saturday January 7, 2012

crumbling path, crooked front gate

pleasure-skaters on a sunny day

shinny hockey

Rafael Lewis, rink correspondent, at 1 pm: The weather was a balmy 6 degrees and there quite a few skaters on both the pleasure skating rink as well as the shinny rink. I noted one rink guard but he was invisible most of the time. The main gate to enter the arena looked like it had seen better days. The change room had bags and shoes littered all over the place and there were 2 lost and found boxes in one corner of the room with a lot of hats and mitts inside.

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