Pettit National Ice Center

I love the Pettit and how they open the space to the whole community for various events and activities. On this day I was specifically there for a Team Phoenix Breast Cancer survivor event. We walked around the track & had a short program upstairs in one of the community rooms. It was great! It’s also fun to watch the speed skaters practicing!

The best place for anything you can do on the ice! Figure skating lessons… hockey, speed skating, public skate… GO HERE! very reasonable prices for public skate as well.

We came here to skate for the day during their open skating hours, and it was a lot of fun! The ice track is huge, with lanes for skaters at different levels of experience. The price to skate and rent was good. The only issue was the two girls at the skate rental counter, who seemed like they hated their job, and doing it was a huge inconvenience to them. Other than that, this is an awesome place to skate for the day!

I've been there twice to run during some extremely cold weather. The first visit was on a Saturday and it was very busy! My second visit was much better on a Monday morning at ten o'clock. There was a significantly smaller number of people there. It is a wonderful facility and a great resource for metropolitan Milwaukee. Be sure to check the website schedule because sometimes the running track is closed for speed skating events. The fee I paid with a credit card was $4.00. I prefer running outdoors, but if the weather doesn't cooperate I'll be there.

Great open skate sesh with the kids. Lots of space, rental skates were in good condition. Pro tip, byo water as the vending machines are $$$

Didn't cost very much to skate, which is a plus. Theirs rentals for skates, hockey, or figure. They also have walker type things you or a child can use to help on the ice. When I went it was crowded, as a person that's never skated in my life, was a bit overwhelmed but tried my luck, did not get a walker, not sure where you get them from. The ice gets grooves in it pretty quickly with the number of people, making it a little more difficult. I really enjoyed it, just wish there weren't as many people all at the same time, did not want to fall on someone, or fall n someone else falls on me, especially the small kids. I will definitely go back just, hopefully, not as many people there. And I will bring gloves. The only thing I really didn't care for here was the parking setup. There should be arrows for up or down a row since the rows are narrow. They should also redo the ice more frequently than every 3 hours when theirs so many people, but I understand that everyone has to be off the ice for approximately 20 min for this each time. There are also 2 hockey rinks

Went with a group of people to ice skate here. They streamlined this place so it's easy to navigate. I brought my own skates and didn't have to wait in the long line to rent skates. They did not have a coin exchange but they had vending machines. The lockers needed 2 quarters, went to concessions to exchange for coins, but it took longer to get through the shorter concessions line than it was for my group to finish picking up their skates and go on the ice. We went on a Saturday and it was very crowded. The ice rink was cool, we got to skate on the outer rink for a bit and they brought out 2 zambonis so resurfacing the rink was faster than I expected.