Location

725 Logan Ave. N of Bain. See Satellite Map

Phone: unlisted

Schedule

See Schedule tab

Links

Withrow Park website

City Councillor

The City Councillor for this rink is Councillor Fletcher

Withrow Rink Profile

Rink change area: Small, clean and window-less change area. Schedule is posted on bulletin board. Washrooms are unlocked. Rubber padding covers most of the building.

Staff: Staff seem friendly. One third of the small rinkhouse seems to be the office, but the staff said that when it gets busy they do let people change there.

Maintenance: Ice is supposed to be cleaned twice a day.

Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:

2011-2012

Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 17:45 hours a week, during prime time.

Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 20 hours a week, during prime time.

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

Lively. Since it's a single pad time is shared with pleasure skaters. Women's Shinny: Thursday nights 6:00pm - 8:00pm.

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Opening and closing dates:

Opened: Dec 9, 2012
Closes: Feb 24, 2013

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

See also: Editor's and Rink Users' blog

Wednesday Dec.26 2012, Boxing Day

Rink sign says it's closed on Boxing Day...

...but it's open

The central change room is open and warm. There is no rink staff person and the side change rooms are locked, but the washrooms are open too. The change area is so packed with skaters that they have to take turns to sit down. Despite the sign, lots of neighbourhood skaters have figured out that the rink is open on Boxing Day -- as promised on the city's website. Read More >>

See Diaries tab

From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13

For the skating schedule, go to Withrow 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.

Withrow Park history

Withrow Park Ice hockey 1923- Toronto Archives

Withrow Park Bobsled run, 1914- Toronto Archives
Click on picture to enlarge it.

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

See also: Editor's and Rink Users' blog

Wednesday Dec.26 2012, Boxing Day

Rink sign says it's closed on Boxing Day...

...but it's open

The central change room is open and warm. There is no rink staff person and the side change rooms are locked, but the washrooms are open too. The change area is so packed with skaters that they have to take turns to sit down. Despite the sign, lots of neighbourhood skaters have figured out that the rink is open on Boxing Day -- as promised on the city's website. Read More >>

Rink Diary 2011 - 2012

Saturday Dec.3 2011

1:50pm: I called the local rink line in advance to ask about the ice and got a busy signal each time - 3 times in an hour.

When I arrived there were 12 shinny players on the ice and 4 changing inside. The two rink staff said the zamboni had been by recently, and the ice looked to be in good shape. It was a bit thin in spots, but hard. There were no opening signs, and no posted schedules, but the staff offered the brochure.

As one of them exited the storage room I noticed two of the old green rink shovels, and some extra mats that weren't laid out yet.

Tuesday January 10 2012

From rink user Duncan Cousins:

For whatever reason, Withrow Park rink (in Riverdale) has not been easy to track down on line for a skating schedule, and as of today only lists Feb 20th!

-I've an old schedule from mid December that I'm going with for later today, but for all I know it's been changed.

Read More >>

Diary 2010 - 2011, Rink Diary 2009 - 2010, Diary 2008-2009, Diary 2007 -2008, RinkDiary2006-2007, RinkDiary2005-2006, Rink Diary 2004 - 2005, Rink Diary 2003 - 2004