Cordova Skating Center

Parents, did you know that your kids can skate for free? Well they can! You just have to sign them up at
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Cordova Skating Center is usually $ 7 to skate, I believe, but free on Tuesdays and Fridays from 12 – 5. If you own your own skates, it’s completely free. If you need to rent their skates, it’s a mere $ 2.
Staff is very friendly and an older gentleman (who I would assume is the owner) is always walking around, observing everything. My daughter fell one time and as we were leaving, he even offered to help me get her to the car! (I think her pride was hurt worse than her rear end)
The DJ is really nice to the kids and is quick to accommodate any song request. If it’s a song with curse words, he will find a radio-​friendly alternative or a Kidz Bop version, which I REALLY appreciate. This is a fun, family friendly environment, after all!
Concession stand has typical offerings: pretzels, hot dogs, chili cheese fries, slurpies, etc. On same day as my daughter took a spill they very sweetly gave me a baggie with ice.
Annnnyways, sign your kids up for the free skating and wheel on down to Cordova Skating Center! How can you beat free, air conditioned entertainment for the kiddos?

Maybe it’s a whiff of nostalgia, or as Misty mentioned, the dirty feet, but I am in love with roller skating.
I’ll go at any time, with any one, my janky body allowing, and this facility takes you back to your eighties childhood when you would shoot the duck to Marky Mark in your pom-pom’ed-out skates until your parents dragged you out of there. And, did anyone have the token 40 year old moustached show-​off in tight jeans and speed skates doing tricks and weaving through the crowd with a bored look on his face? Just checking.
It’s a decent-​enough rink, they have a pro shop where you can buy skates, get something to eat, and they also hold birthday parties (is my 32^nd too old for a skating party?).

Cordova Skating Center, located just off of Germantown Parkway in Cordova, has a pretty typical setup. A rink surrounded on three sides by a carpeted area equipped with video games, tables, and chairs. They have a skate shop where you can buy such brand skates as K2, Rollerblade, and Mission. They also have a small selection of skating accessories — wheels, bearings, and the like. They have a snack bar and a few vending machines, and a row of rooms available for party rentals.
They have a decent sound system and play mostly pop. Lady Gaga, Usher, etc. They have approximately 1500 lights, a couple of disco balls and various lighting rigs to time shows to the music; all of which is nothing spectacular, but not too shabby either. But let’s face it — you don’t go to a skating rink for the music and light show.
The rink itself is gray epoxied plywood, and fairly large. The epoxy has seen better days — it’s pitted and scarred and there’s some wavy sections where the floor is not at all flat. My current pair of K2’s came with white wheels, and after a few hours of skating, they’ve turned quite a dingy yellow from the buildup of dirt on the floor. For all that, the floor skates fairly well. The skating floor is surrounded on 3 sides with a three foot concrete block wall which has openings scattered here and there to allow access on and off the floor. They always skate counter-​clockwise. I’ve never seen them call for the skaters to reverse direction.
The rental quads are pretty much your standard fare — plain brown leather boots and hard plastic wheels. They do have inline skates available for an additional $ 2. The pair i got the one time i rented from them was a worn pair of K2’s that had all of the lacing eyes on one skate ripped off and bearings that had seen better days.
Having said all that, where the Cordova rink shines (and why I’m giving it four stars) is its hours. They are open for free skate every afternoon/​evening with the exception of Tuesdays, when they have skating lessons. During the week, there’s generally only a handful of people on the floor skating. Weekends are busier — on Friday nights the place is absolutely packed, but Saturday and Sunday aren’t so crowded that you can’t enjoy yourself.
I have a summer pass that allows me to skate as much as i like through August — hopefully they’ll have a fall pass as well.

Most kids love to skate and they won’t be disappointed here. It is an average sized skating rink in the Cordova area. They have skates and roller blades available to rent. It also has a store where you can buy skates, socks and various skating accessories. The snack bar has basic food– pizza, nachos and drinks.
It’s a popular place for birthday parties and group events. Don’t expect fancy. It’s a basic skating rink that is has that skating rink smell (dirty feet!). It is not the cleanest skating rink I have ever seen but it serves the purpose. Your kids will definitely have fun here. I even put on skates and skate with them!
Don’t forget your socks, you’ll need them to rent the skates! If you do forget, the shop sells them.