2025 Skate America: Lake Placid (official 5.6.2025)

[myhoneyhoney]

It’ll be worse for you if you try to go, I promise

Shakes fist: dammit!

 

[smurfy]

old person raises hand - What is AITAH?

I only learned in the last year or so. I follow Brad Takei on FB - and he shares links to the reddit AITAH.
It can be interesting, hilarious, scary and so bizarre. If some of the stories are true - some of the advice is helpful.
The wedding ones are so entertaining. Another rabbit hole for entertainment.

 

[Coco]

There's some really heartbreaking stories on there sometimes. I clicked on a few on FB and am now barraged with them.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

The Friends of Figure Skating presale starts May 21 at noon. Here is the pricing information. So they stuck it in Lake Placid and also raised the prices while eliminating the gala lol (P2 was $270 last year).

All-session tickets include entry to all four competition sessions Nov. 14-16 as well as all official practices beginning Nov. 13. Please note there is no Skating Spectacular this year.

Pricing for all-session tickets is as follows (including taxes and fees):

• P1: $510 (First two rows around the ice)
• P2: $310
• P3: $130

 

[apgold]

The Friends of Figure Skating presale starts May 21 at noon. Here is the pricing information. So they stuck it in Lake Placid and also raised the prices while eliminating the gala lol (P2 was $270 last year).

All-session tickets include entry to all four competition sessions Nov. 14-16 as well as all official practices beginning Nov. 13. Please note there is no Skating Spectacular this year.

Pricing for all-session tickets is as follows (including taxes and fees):

• P1: $510 (First two rows around the ice)
• P2: $310
• P3: $130

Thanks for the info. I see the press release that tickets go on sale Thursday at noon for the General public. I signed up for emails from USFS and got nothing yet from them. I asked on X what is the difference between P2 and P3 in terms of location. $500 for the first two rows is price gouging, IMO.

 

[YukiNieve]

A question for those of you who have been there to 1980 Herb Brooks Arena lately (@ice coverage, do you hear me? ) :

Is there a fence and path in front of the 1st row all around the rink shown in this video?

I am also wondering if the fence is low enough to not obstruct the view of people sitting in the front row, especially if they are not tall.

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[ice coverage]

A question for those of you who have been there to 1980 Herb Brooks Arena lately (@ice coverage, do you hear me? ) :

Is there a fence and path in front of the 1st row all around the rink shown in this video?

I am also wondering if the fence is low enough to not obstruct the view of people sitting in the front row, especially if they are not tall.

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My apologies for being useless , Yuki ... TBH, I am embarrassed that my feeble memory means that my response is shaky, especially because in 1980 Arena, I never sit close to the ice (even if empty seats are plentiful down there).

I hope that others will have more reliable answers for you than mine.
That said, IIRC, I think you are correct about the path, which I remember on the judges' side (I tend not to be on the opposite side, so am not so sure over there).
I do not know whether the "fence" goes all around the rink.

In case these 2022 LP Ice Dance videos will help:

https://youtu.be/8ma9FkcoLz0?si=NyFI0uolNgkWK-fN&t=185​

https://youtu.be/zVAbzQceklM?si=h3y_Et4uV4aERzgQ&t=77​

ETA:​

Just for my own reference, storing here the old 2017 Skate America color-coded schedule:

https://www.isuresults.com/schedules/gpusa2017_ColouredTimeSchedule.pdf

 

[YukiNieve]

Oh, thanks, @ice coverage, the links you included answered my question. So there is a fence al around the rink.

And the spectators cannot enter and walk through the path next to the rink to go to the bathrooms etc, I guess?

 

[ice coverage]

... And the spectators cannot enter and walk through the path next to the rink to go to the bathrooms etc, I guess?

Happy to say that multiple restrooms are conveniently located within 1980 Rink/Herb Brooks; plus additional restroom options are nearby within Lake Placid Olympic Center.

If you are on "concourse" (for lack of a better word) level inside Herb Brooks (I mean right behind the top row of red seats), restrooms are located in all four corners, IIRC.
If you are on "concourse" level and exit the rink to grab some food a few feet away at Roamers Cafe (on the same level), you will be very near to other restrooms, sort of behind the glass elevator, IIRC. I think you have to go down half a flight of stairs to get to the restrooms (I believe the elevator also stops on restroom level).
If you walk down (or take the elevator down) to ground level, it has restrooms too -- near the information desk/Olympic Museum/Miracle Moments Store, all of which are right next to each other within Olympic Center.
Back up by Roamers, if you walk past Roamers seating area and then down the hall (in opposite direction from 1980 Rink), Olympic Center also has restrooms on the far side of 1932 Rink/Jack Shea Arena (I do not mean within 1932 Rink). (BTW, it seems possible to me that 1932 Rink would have some unofficial practice ice for 2025 Skate America -- as it did for 2017 Skate America, at least on Wednesday, as I discovered by accident back then.)
(Sorry if my explanation of where things are is confusing. There is more than one way to enter 1980 Rink. My examples of restrooms are not an exhaustive list. I'm just trying to convey that walking on the path down by the boards is not necessary at all for easy access to restrooms. )

ETA:​

Found a 1980 Rink map for 2023 Synchro Worlds. What I was saying about all four corners is that restrooms are somewhere behind/near top rows of Sections 24/25 and 15/16. Also 3 and 11, I think, although that side is not familiar to me.​

One of the ways to enter/exit 1980 Rink is through doors behind top rows of Sections 1/26. Just outside these doors is Roamers Cafe; also the glass elevator.​

https://www.usfigureskating.org/sites/default/files/media-files/World%20Synchro%20-%20Lower%20Bowl%20Map.png

ETA:​

Roamers Cafe is something new since 2017 Skate America. It has lovely mountain views. It was part of the Olympic Center upgrading before 2023 University Games, IIRC. The old cafeteria (as I think it was called) is long gone.​

 

[YukiNieve]

Thanks @ice coverage for explaining so many ways to get to the bathrooms! Sounds good!

 

[apgold]

In case anyone was wondering, most of the seats available are P2 level pricing. Only P3 seats are in the last few rows in the corners near the KnC and across the way. My friend was able to get 3rd row seats across from the KnC for the P2 price.

 

[waddlercu]

Lake Placid local here. I signed up for Friends of Figure Skating yesterday but never got an email about the presale. Is it a Ticketmaster code or something else?

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Lake Placid local here. I signed up for Friends of Figure Skating yesterday but never got an email about the presale. Is it a Ticketmaster code or something else?

Hardly any seats have been sold from what I see on the map so you shouldn’t have any problem getting good seats tomorrow. They probably didn’t get your new membership logged in time for the presale email.

 

[waddlercu]

Good to know, thanks. Back when SOI was here every Thanksgiving weekend, it was a fierce scramble to the box office at intermission to secure next year’s tickets! Wait until the next day and you’d be halfway up the lower level.

 

[sk8pics]

I skated in the 1980 rink at an adult figure skating camp way back when. It was pretty cool. Maybe I’ll think about going to SA, we’ll see…

 

[nylynnr]

I skated in the 1980 rink at an adult figure skating camp way back when. It was pretty cool. Maybe I’ll think about going to SA, we’ll see…

Come!

 

[sk8pics]

Come!

We'll see! I have a lot of other travel scheduled this year.

 

[HeatherC]

Well, this was a trip that mom and I had been talking about for a little while and after finding a reasonable hotel a few weeks ago and now snagging some great seats today, I can confirm that we will officially be at SA this fall. I have never been to Lake Placid before so I'm excited to finally see the area. Should be a fun weekend!