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Every sheet of ice in the country.

1,802 rink facilities on one map, and the counties where the nearest one is a road trip away.

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1,802 rink facilities
1,948 sheets of ice
48 states with ice
3,143 counties measured

The map

Where the ice is

Zoom in for individual rinks. Toggle coverage gaps to shade every county by distance to its nearest sheet.

Coverage gaps

Where it is not

Ten counties with the most people and the least ice, ranked by population times distance to the nearest known rink, among counties at least 40 km from one.

  1. 01 Hidalgo Texas 870,781 people 375.6 km 233 mi to ice
  2. 02 Cameron Texas 421,017 people 405.4 km 252 mi to ice
  3. 03 East Baton Rouge Louisiana 456,781 people 338.5 km 210 mi to ice
  4. 04 Pima Arizona 1,043,433 people 143.6 km 89 mi to ice
  5. 05 Jefferson Louisiana 440,781 people 338.0 km 210 mi to ice
  6. 06 Shelby Tennessee 929,744 people 151.6 km 94 mi to ice
  7. 07 Orleans Louisiana 383,997 people 328.0 km 204 mi to ice
  8. 08 Pulaski Arkansas 399,125 people 284.5 km 177 mi to ice
  9. 09 Lee Florida 760,822 people 125.3 km 78 mi to ice
  10. 10 St. Tammany Louisiana 264,570 people 314.9 km 196 mi to ice

By state

Pick a state

Every state page has its own map and a table of facilities. The bar shows how a state compares to the one with the most rinks.

AL Alabama 5 rinks AK Alaska 75 rinks AZ Arizona 9 rinks AR Arkansas none known CA California 43 rinks CO Colorado 41 rinks CT Connecticut 18 rinks DE Delaware 1 rink DC District of Columbia 3 rinks FL Florida 19 rinks GA Georgia 10 rinks HI Hawaii 1 rink ID Idaho 11 rinks IL Illinois 74 rinks IN Indiana 14 rinks IA Iowa 10 rinks KS Kansas 4 rinks KY Kentucky 4 rinks LA Louisiana 1 rink ME Maine 48 rinks MD Maryland 17 rinks MA Massachusetts 168 rinks MI Michigan 107 rinks MN Minnesota 424 rinks MS Mississippi none known MO Missouri 16 rinks MT Montana 18 rinks NE Nebraska 5 rinks NV Nevada 5 rinks NH New Hampshire 31 rinks NJ New Jersey 46 rinks NM New Mexico 3 rinks NY New York 140 rinks NC North Carolina 13 rinks ND North Dakota 49 rinks OH Ohio 32 rinks OK Oklahoma 5 rinks OR Oregon 8 rinks PA Pennsylvania 66 rinks RI Rhode Island 12 rinks SC South Carolina 3 rinks SD South Dakota 16 rinks TN Tennessee 8 rinks TX Texas 23 rinks UT Utah 12 rinks VT Vermont 21 rinks VA Virginia 17 rinks WA Washington 19 rinks WV West Virginia 5 rinks WI Wisconsin 114 rinks WY Wyoming 8 rinks

About this data

How to read it

Hand-verification has not started yet, so every listing is currently unverified. Spot a missing or wrong rink? Tell us.

01

Where the rinks come from

Facilities are pulled from OpenStreetMap and de-duplicated, with nearby features merged into one listing. Pennsylvania is being hand-verified first; everything else is community-sourced and unverified until we get to it.

02

How distance is measured

Each county gets one point, its 2020 Census center of population, and we measure the straight line from there to the nearest known rink. Straight line is not drive time, so treat every number as a floor.

03

What a gap score means

Population multiplied by kilometers to the nearest sheet, counting only counties whose nearest rink is 40 km or more away. Without that floor, Los Angeles and Riverside top the list on population alone. A big number means many people and no ice.

Rink locations © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Population centers and county populations from the US Census Bureau 2020 Centers of Population.