North Carolina is not a state you associate with ice — which makes it stranger and better that Wake Forest has two NHL-regulation rinks running year-round.
The full skating life cycle
Polar Ice House covers every stage on skates: public sessions for the casual crowd, Learn to Skate for ages three and up with no experience necessary, Learn to Play hockey programs at every age, figure skating, and open hockey for players keeping their edge. The league structure runs deep too — the Polar Hurricanes house league for youth players and a full adult hockey league for the grown-ups who never stopped — plus year-round Camp Chillin for school-break weeks.
The region's ice headquarters
The reach goes well beyond town: recreational skaters, figure skaters, and hockey families from across Wake Forest and north Raleigh treat the facility as the area's ice headquarters, and its birthday party packages — built around public-skate sessions on the twin sheets — have a following of their own.
Every kid deserves one improbable skill. Around here, ice skating is available a few exits up Capital. Schedules, programs, and registration are on their directory listing.
