We went ice skating and sledding at Lock 3, which I also posted about before. It is a lot of fun for the kids, and reatively inexpensive. Skating is free on the outdoor rink, if you have your own skates. No worries if you don't have skates, they have lots of rentals and are only $3 to rent them. The girls got their own skates for Christmas, so it was really cheap! The sleds are $3 for 30 minutes and you go down a chute. It isn't very scary, but the kids still loved it. Lock 3 is located at 200 South Main St. in Akron.
We went skating to an indoor rink as well. Hoover Arena, which has recently been renamed, is located in Strongsville. I believe it costs $2 to rent skates and admission is $6 per person. The kids also liked this, but had more fun outside.
Today, we took them tobogganing. We went to the Chalet, located in the Strongsville Metroparks. The cost is $4 to go down once, or $8 for kids and $10 for adults for a day pass. If you buy a $4 pass to go down once to check if your kids like it, you can upgrade that for a regular pass. The chutes are 70 feet high and you go down at about 45 mph. You can fit 4 people on a toboggan. My kids loved it, however, we must have picked a busy day--the wait was said to be 2 hours. We waited less than that, but still, it was almost an hour and a half. Needless to say, we chose the one time down option.
Kaylee and Lindsey Rating: 5/5 for all three! Ice skating has become a favorite. I think they had more fun outside than at an indoor rink, but they still had fun at both! Tobogganing was great, but some kids might be scared. The two hour wait was not really a two hour wait, but it was still a long wait and would have been better if we would have went at a time when it was not as crowded. Perhaps a Sunday?
