Utah Olympic Oval

Love love love it here! I always have a good time watching the hockey game. And the introduction of the food truck on Wednesday makes the night perfection :)

I like my ice rink like I like my men — ceap and fun. ;) This gigantic fun-​zone is… well…fun! Public ice skating is always a blast, and I see the Utah Flying Trapeze group going at it every time I’m there. They have a running track that goes along the perimeter of the ice rink, and they have interior rinks INSIDE the giant oval rink for hockey games. Also… they have a friggen’ pole vault area. I feel like an Olympic athlete every time I come here!

Very cool place for kids to visit. Inspires and motivates! A must-​see while in Utah.

This place is great. I speed skate there every day and
The facility is great. It is a better temperature than most ice rinks so you don’t get cold when you are in it. The ice is incredible. There is a running track around the rink and people are always running on it.

This place is so awesome. Its giant. Well maintained. Clean. And has awesome activities.
6 of us went cosmic curling. Yeah, its a real thing! It wasnt very cosmic though. But it was a great learning experience. We showed up without reservations (yeah, cosmic curling sells out) and somehow greased the wheels to get on the ice. The coach was awesome and super helpful. She instructed us on how to play and gave good tips. She even shared interesting curling facts with us.
This was an awesome way to spend time learning about this goofy olympic sport that the Canadians love.
Highly recommend the facility for an ice activity.

If you have a groupon, print it out. They don’t take phone scans.
This was a great time. Had always wanted to try curling and getting the opportunity to do so with Olympic stones was awesome!

Love this indoor track. The price is reasonable and clean. I would recommend this place.

The Utah Olympic Oval is used for local schools and University athletics (track, speed skating, hockey) as well as Olympic training. They also rent out parts of the place for corporate events. Over the years, I have been forced into many dull team building events. We all have. You are probably having flashbacks right now of «trust falls» gone horribly wrong. Or some overly-​competitive co-​worker spazzing out.
Anyway, a group of about 30 of us came here for curling lessons. The staff was great. We got some training from an instructor, who was very patient with us and took time to explain everything. We then were broken up into teams and had a little competition. It was a ton of fun. The hours melted away (unlike the ice) and we forgot about work for a while & enjoyed each others company.

The other night for a family holiday party we went ice skating at the Utah Olympic Oval. It was my first time visiting the Oval and I was impressed. The building itself is pretty awesome and definitely Olympic in size. The building contains an Olympic sized speed skating track as well as an ice hockey rink and small figure skating rink.
For casual ice skating the Utah Olympic Oval is fine but there are some disadvantages. First of all, the ice was pretty chopped up when we first got there and they don’t bring out the Zamboni very often. When they finally resurfaced the ice the skating was much better, but resurfacing probably took a good 20 minutes because the track is so large. Speaking of size, because the track was built for Olympic speed skating, it is 400 meters or over 1300 feet. So it’s a LONG way around! Also, because there is a hockey and figure skating rink on the interior, you can’t skate through the middle, meaning when you start skating you’re only choice is to keep going. But there is some advantage to this because it prevents people from cutting through the middle and potentially running into other skaters.
Overall I had fun at the Utah Olympic Oval. I’d go skating here again and recommend it to friends if asked. We went skating on a Thursday night and it was not at all crowded, which was another bonus. Another time I would love to try the curling lessons or take part in some of the other activities they offer here.

The Olympic Oval is amazingly impressive! It’s massive and open. I luv it there. I attended a curling class! AMAZINGLY FUN! I’m super hooked on curling now. All the staff at the Oval were incredibly friendly and really worked with me when we had a no show in our curling group. The curling class was well taught and explained all the important aspect, as well as ice safety and ice preparation. I got to use Rocks that Olympians used– awesome. I really want to join a curling league now, so thanks Olympic Oval.

This place is great! For my wife’s birthday, I bought her speedskating lessons at the Olympic Oval. For four one-​hour lessons it costs $ 45. But the coolest thing is that the classes are taught by Derek Parra, who has won 9 Olympic medals. He is a genuine guy, and super nice. He had our names memorized (our group has 12 people in it) within the first 15 minutes of our first class.
They also teach other classes at the Oval. You can even take curling lessons if you really, truly want to be like the Canadians.

Visiting from the Bay Area, we had to take the opportunity to visit this olympic venue!
My friend and I were looking for some really cool Winter Games activities to do while in SLC, and while looking at the Oval website we stumbled on the utah winter games website (
). Somewhere on the website it stipulates that it is for locals only, but I emailed Tim Preston (the organizer) if us out of towners could join, and he obliged. I think if you just sign up through their registration, you can do it and you shouldn’t have a problem.
My friend and I participated in the Super Clinic. This clinic lasts 4 hours where you get to participate in 4 different winter sports. Clinic takes place from 11am — 3pm. And the best part is that it only costs $ 10 per person! Cost includes ice time, instruction, and equipment.
11am — Curling — This is A LOT of fun. I admit that this is very hard to watch on TV (for me personally) but it is a lot of fun to play it. I think we had about 45 minutes of instruction and drills, learning the rules and such. And then we got to play a couple of matches. Instruction was really good, the guys there were really patient with everyone.
12 noon — Ice Hockey — I’ve always wanted to try ice hockey since I was a kid, so I really enjoyed this session. I made a couple of «Mighty Ducks» jokes when we got our hands on the equipment. The instructor for this one was a bit younger (like still in high school) and didn’t really command the attention of the group. He had a tough job though since it was such a large group that varied in age from 7 – 30. It was fun, we did a bunch of drills and played a game called sharks and minnows.
1pm — Figure Skating — Can’t comment since I didn’t participate in this session. I kind of don’t understand how they expect you to do all 4 sessions without stopping to eat for lunch. So I took this opportunity to take a break and have a snack.
2pm — Speed Skating — I was really looking forward to this one since I’m a fan of watching short track at the olympics. You actually get to use speed skates for this session (included) which was cool since I’ve never strapped on a pair of these. Do not be fooled, Speed Skating is a lot different than skating with hockey or figure skates. The blades are shaped differently and the position you take is completely different than hockey skating. I thought I would be able to get my fingers down on the ice like Ohno does, but I was not even close. You have to get really low the entire time and this is not an easy sport.
And now its 3pm, time to go home!
Overall, this is a pretty cool facility. It’s located in a really random place. After talking to one of the coaches, it sounded like the land was donated to the city for the olympics, so that’s why it is in such an obscure place. Really makes me wonder how they fit all those people in there for a world class event, because the neighborhood is far from it (sorry if you live there).
I think that the clinic is targeted for kids, but there were some adults there. I think about 30% of our group were adults. My friend and I thought it was funny that we were the only adults for a while.
But the short track that you skate on is the same ice that Apollo trains on, which is pretty cool. They say its the fastest ice in the world because of him. They also have the long track that circles around the short track and hockey rink. They had a free skate after our clinic was over so I got to use my speed skates on that track. That thing takes forever to get around! it is huge.
You also get to see some aspiring olympic athletes training there on the spin bikes, and on the track. Pretty cool spot if you’re into that olympic stuff.
The clinic serves its purpose and just exposes you to each of the sports. Don’t expect to have too much free time to mess around and practice your new techniques.
It was really fun here and I think it was definitely the highlight of our trip! I would recommend it to anyone going to SLC.