Grateful to have this place for skating. I thought I should share that before moving on. As happy as I am that we have a free semi maintained place to skate in Peterborough, I do need to make an honest review. The ice this year is awful. I know the times are hard and it's not an easy job to maintain that amount of ice, so don't take this the wrong way. I only wish that in this dark time, our city might have put extra effort into maintenance. Perhaps flooding the ice after hours so that it has time to freeze before people are using it. I tried to take my children skating and they had a very frustrating and difficult time with the ice, as it was all broken up from being skated on to early after flooding. The city had the guys out flooding it at 3 pm on a weekday...this seems a little counter productive as people were obviously using the ice at that time and continued using it through the rest of the night. Perhaps hiring people to flood late at night while everyone is home. This way there are far less people out and the ice can freeze smooth and solid before use. Small changes to that schedule could improve the quality tenfold and with that would make the experience far more enjoyable for everyone.

Overall I am happy that we have access to a safe place to skate that we don't have to clear snow off of.