Lakeville Arenas Indoor Rinks and the Allina Pavilion Rink are always open except in severe and extreme circumstances when facility closings will be posted here on our website. For additional details, check out the Ice Club Membership Page. Winter lesson schedule and details will be published shortly on the Winter Session Page. Questions - Call Nick Ames Registration for the Winter Session of Learn to Skate classes is now closed.
Spring session lesson registration will open in early March. The idea for the Allina Health Pavilion Rink began in the spring of when Lakeville Arenas was approached by the Lakeville Hockey Association LHA to build a simpler seasonal version of what is now a year-round community asset that will benefit residents far beyond the hockey rink originally proposed.
Initially, it was a simple solution to help eliminate the travel and late nights for LHA families who were driving up to 45 minutes one way outside of Lakeville for ice time due to the growth of LHA and the need for more ice. LHA and the Heritage Figure Skating Club HFSC were willing to partner and help fund the new facility, so the Arenas Board took the idea to the City, which agreed to include the project in a citywide referendum to upgrade the City's parks and recreation facilities that would be voted on and passed by residents later in the year.
Originally it was thought that the new rink could easily be cooled using the existing ice plant at Hasse Arena that was already plumbed for expansion of a 2nd rink when it was built. However, since being built in , technology has changed, and the current refrigerant r22 is being phased out and is no longer allowed to be produced.
In addition, the plant was built with a smaller load of an additional indoor sheet of ice in mind, which, contrary to what most people believe, is much cheaper to operate than an outdoor rink because of the controlled environment.
