Glacier Ice Arena

It is VERY unorganized.
Most of the staff is nice, the rest of them are AWFUL!
This is a skating rink, why is the staff so miserable? Morale is very low and unfortunately it effects everyone.
My kids have been skating there for months and we are looking for somewhere else.
It’s not worth the attitudes.
SO DISAPPOINTED!

I used to come here almost every weekend as a kid to the public skating. I finally went back today and it was still great.
The line to pay for public skating goes quickly, even though it usually gets long.
There are definitely a lot of people allowed to go on ice, and gets very crowded, but it wasn’t too horrible today.
The cosmic skating for the last hour of skating is a nice touch.
I did not see any «guards» skating on ice… but maybe they just didn’t stand out.
The hot chocolate that we got after skating was delicious. It was very rich and chocolaty… much better than I ever expect from an ice rink.
My dad also periodically goes to the adult hockey legue/​open play during the day, and has a blast.

Tucked away in the Vernon Hills business park, away from the chaos of the mall and traffic of Rt. 60, Glacier Ice Arena is a great place for hockey or a quick sharping if need be.
They have two sheets of ice and 8 decent, although oddly shaped locker rooms that have showers. Heaters are placed above the stands for the fans. It does get very cold when you’re coaching on the bench. If you get hungry cheering on your favorite player there is a pretty good selection of drinks or snacks at the food stand.
The most convenient part of Glacier is the fact that they have a Jerry’s in the building. I wish all ice rinks had one. Recently, one of my mite players’ skate blade broke during a game in a tournament. We took his skate into the shop and within 5 min of him having it off his foot, it was fixed.
Some of the not so great things — the ice is a little slow, especially in the summer time (as with most rinks). The men’s league games are very late during the week. We’re talking 10pm on a Tuesday night and for those of use that have the 9 – 5 jobs it’s a little tough.
Glacier is a great place to learn and play hockey from beginners to the young at heart.

Nice rink. Have a cool little rink on the second level that you can skate on.

Nice Saturday afternoon skating session and not too crowded. Though my children do not play hockey, I can see they have many leagues for all ages including weekend warriors.

I APPROVE.
We had a game here last Friday night against the Vixens (which we won, btw). The arena itself has great facilities: a pro shop that does sharpening (though they took a while with one of our centers, and she ended up not getting to play until the 2^nd period), sells everything you need, including gear. They have a good food vendor that stays open, two rinks that are in pristine condition, is overall clean and doesn’t have a stinky rink smell.
Even our locker room was clean, and the bathrooms had stalls. There were additional restrooms in the rink (not just in the arena lobby), so that when we first got there we didn’t have to share with a bunch of high school boys (they’d had the ice before us, had the neighboring locker room)
The viewing stands connect so that you can be in the stands for the game (or whatever) in one rink and still see what’s going on in the other. There was a men’s game going on at the other rink at the time, and we soon had fans when people got wind that a bunch of college girls were beating the crap out of each other on skates.
They also have daily open skate, rat hockey, clinics, and all you could want from an arena. If you live anywhere near Vernon Hills, go here.