Don’t hang up those skates just yet. Due to a number of weather-related closures this season, the UNMC Ice Rink is extending its closing date to Feb. 6, one week longer than originally planned.
Open skating hours will remain the same:
- Monday through Thursday: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
- Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
- Sunday: 11 a.m.-8 p.m.
Admission is $7 for the general public and free for members of the med center and university community as follows:
- UNMC, University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Clarkson College, Nebraska Medicine employees, students and immediate family members. Must present a valid college or Nebraska Medicine ID badge.
- Ronald McDonald House employees and house guests. Must present a valid ID badge.
Given the outdoor setting, masks are optional. (Both the ice rink and adjacent event building for handling admission and skate rentals are outdoors.) Masks, however, are required in all indoor areas of the UNMC and Nebraska Medical Center campus.
UNMC continues to take precautions against COVID-19 and asks people who want to skate to:
- Stay home if you have recently tested positive for COVID-19 or suspect you have COVID-19;
- Check potential symptoms on UNMC’s free 1-Check COVID app; or
- Answer these simple symptom screening questions:
- Have you been in close contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 within the past 10 days?
- Are you experiencing a cough, shortness of breath or sore throat?
- Have you had a fever in the last 48 hours?
If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, please stay home for the health and safety of others.
Update to date information about the rink can be found on its Facebook page, The Ice at the UNMC, or by calling 402-559-0697.