2025 Skate America location/dates

[BittyBug]

They’ve already had it in November twice without issue.

 

[Aceon6]

They’ve already had it in November twice without issue.

But those were years when I had a conflict. I guarantee that if I commit for this fall, there will be an ice storm of biblical proportions.

 

[BittyBug]

Kind of like if you put your shovels away it's guaranteed to snow?

 

[Lizziebeth]

Kind of like if you put your shovels away it's guaranteed to snow?

or wash your car

 

[Rob]

Contrary to almost everyone else, Lake Placid is the only competition location that can interest me. Gorgeous easy drive from southern Vermont. Reasonable hotel rates, walkable village, appealing arena. If SA isn’t there, I’ll go to the LP Ice Dance championships at end July.

I flew into Burlington in January- I can fly from the regional airport near my house to Philly to either Albany or Burlington. my friend picked me up and we checked out Burlington, then drove back to LP.

I can drive to LP in about 7 hours. To get to any other locations, I either need to fly to Philly or Charlotte first (only options from the regional airport) or drive the 3 hours to DC for all other destinations. So a 7 hour drive is sometimes more palatable.

 

[PRlady]

I flew into Burlington in January- I can fly from the regional airport near my house to Philly to either Albany or Burlington. my friend picked me up and we checked out Burlington, then drove back to LP.

I can drive to LP in about 7 hours. To get to any other locations, I either need to fly to Philly or Charlotte first (only options from the regional airport) or drive the 3 hours to DC for all other destinations. So a 7 hour drive is sometimes more palatable.

Ah. That will be my daughter’s life when they move near you this summer. I don’t ever want to live that far from a major airport.

 

[Rob]

Ah. That will be my daughter’s life when they move near you this summer. I don’t ever want to live that far from a major airport.

The good part of it is if you can connect through PHL or CLT, you really don’t have to get there more than an hour before flight time. Security takes 5 mins and boarding takes no time at all. The bad part is no direct flights anywhere else and weather can cancel or delay flights because the jets are Embraer sized. The are supposed to expand with a longer runway that will allow for larger planes and flights to Orlando as well (but the $800,000 federal grant from Oct 2024 is now uncertain).

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Remember last year when everyone thought it was going to be St. Louis and Hoffman Estates or something and we were wrong on everything lol

Can’t wait when it turns out to be Fresno, California

 

[doritos]

I've heard from very reliable sources that SkAM is either Lake Placid or Tempe, AZ at the Mullett Arena where the ASU Sun Devils play.

Arena Info - Mullett Arena ASU

Arena info: A-Z guide, Arena food and beverage options, know before you go to the arena, directions, parking and Arena partners.

www.mullettarena.com

With Lake Placid, the USOC covers a lot of the costs so it is cheap for USFS to host events there (just like when they do it close to headquarters in CO Springs).

With Tempe, the PHX Airport is a 10 min drive and makes for easy logistics with international flights.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

I've heard from very reliable sources that SkAM is either Lake Placid or Tempe, AZ at the Mullett Arena where the ASU Sun Devils play.

Arena Info - Mullett Arena ASU

Arena info: A-Z guide, Arena food and beverage options, know before you go to the arena, directions, parking and Arena partners.

www.mullettarena.com

With Lake Placid, the USOC covers a lot of the costs so it is cheap for USFS to host events there (just like when they do it close to headquarters in CO Springs).

With Tempe, the PHX Airport is a 10 min drive and makes for easy logistics with international flights.

Ohh I’ve always wanted to go to Arizona and fall would be the perfect time!

 

[PRlady]

Drat. My BFF with the house in Scottsdale gets there early November. But it’s the weekend before Thanksgiving with 20 people descending on us and a five hour flight. Sigh.

 

[Vagabond]

the Mullett Arena

 

[barbk]

I've heard from very reliable sources that SkAM is either Lake Placid or Tempe, AZ at the Mullett Arena where the ASU Sun Devils play.

Arena Info - Mullett Arena ASU

Arena info: A-Z guide, Arena food and beverage options, know before you go to the arena, directions, parking and Arena partners.

www.mullettarena.com

With Lake Placid, the USOC covers a lot of the costs so it is cheap for USFS to host events there (just like when they do it close to headquarters in CO Springs).

With Tempe, the PHX Airport is a 10 min drive and makes for easy logistics with international flights.

The Phoenix airport is on light rail, which goes directly to the ASU campus. If that turns out to be the location, I hope it is not on a weekend when the Sun Devils have a home football game. Uber/Lyft were very easy there.

 

[Aimless]

Anybody have an accurate idea when the decision will be made? Hoping hard for LP.

 

[Coco]

ASU has a home football game on 11/15, time TBD.

 

[azcalder]

I've heard from very reliable sources that SkAM is either Lake Placid or Tempe, AZ at the Mullett Arena where the ASU Sun Devils play.

Arena Info - Mullett Arena ASU

Arena info: A-Z guide, Arena food and beverage options, know before you go to the arena, directions, parking and Arena partners.

www.mullettarena.com

With Lake Placid, the USOC covers a lot of the costs so it is cheap for USFS to host events there (just like when they do it close to headquarters in CO Springs).

With Tempe, the PHX Airport is a 10 min drive and makes for easy logistics with international flights.

Better yet is the light rail that goes right by the airport and ASU - 5 minutes apart.

 

[MacMadame]

Ohh I’ve always wanted to go to Arizona and fall would be the perfect time!

Tempe is really nice too.

 

[Karen-W]

I like Tempe's time zone during November, lol.

 

[ChillSkate]

SLC would have been fun but Tempe would be even better in November! And that arena is so conveniently located.

Lake Placid is one of the few locations in the US that is out of the question for me.

 

[Aaron MB Fan]

Agreed, Tempe sounds even more appealing in November than SLC. I last visit Arizona in 2019 and it was also in November as well back then. Weather was beautiful! So nice by Sedona and Grand Canyon, picturesque and beautiful, fun drive! Phoenix was much warmer, but manageable in November and refreshing at that time of the year vs northern weather in the US/CA.

 

[A.H.Black]

I see several posters talking about how great the weather would be in Arizona in November.

The coldest rinks I have ever been in were in Phoenix. The skaters applauded the few fans who showed up to practice.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

I see several posters talking about how great the weather would be in Arizona in November.

The coldest rinks I have ever been in were in Phoenix. The skaters applauded the few fans who showed up to practice.

If we survived the Great Arctic Skate America of Allen 2023 we can survive anything.

 

[once_upon]

Driving in Tempe is not fun.

 

[TanithandBenFan]

Driving in Tempe is not fun.

Nothing can be worse than driving 2.5 hours from the Albany airport to Lake Placid!

 

[Vagabond]

Nothing can be worse than driving 2.5 hours from the Albany airport to Lake Placid!

Driving two and a half hours in heavy traffic from Burbank to Anaheim can be.

 

[kwanfan1818]

How far away is the rink in Tempe from light rail? Valley Metro has a few stops in Tempe:
https://www.valleymetro.org/maps-schedules/rail

 

[Lanie]

Driving two and a half hours in heavy traffic from Burbank to Anaheim can be.

When Mr Lanie worked for Disney, some evenings it would take him over 3 hours to get home from Burbank to Thousand Oaks

 

[MacMadame]

Driving in Tempe is not fun.

I've never had a problem with it the 3 times I've been there. I was staying near the "Lake" and ASU.

When Mr Lanie worked for Disney, some evenings it would take him over 3 hours to get home from Burbank to Thousand Oaks

Believable. Around here, people used to buy a house out in Tracy and then drive into the general San Jose and Silicon Valley area for work. People thought that was crazy. But now people are buying houses in places like Manteca and Modesto, which is around a 70-mile commute to my town and as much as 100 miles to areas with a lot of tech jobs. Crazy!

 

[Karen-W]

Believable. Around here, people used to buy a house out in Tracy and then drive into the general San Jose and Silicon Valley area for work. People thought that was crazy. But now people are buying houses in places like Manteca and Modesto, which is around a 70-mile commute to my town and as much as 100 miles to areas with a lot of tech jobs. Crazy!

LOL - news flash. People were doing that 30 years ago - it's nothing new. When I was in high school, we went to church in Modesto, so we made the drive from Tracy to Modesto nearly every Sunday. Sometimes we took the "backroads" going down 33 to 132 & directly into downtown Modesto where our church was located, other times we took the 120 bypass over to 99 and then down to Modesto, so I saw all the new homes going up not just in Tracy but also in Manteca, Ripon, Salida & Modesto and most of those new homeowners were commuting to the East or South Bay. The really crazy people were buying houses in Los Banos and driving over the Pacheco Pass to Gilroy & then up 101 to their jobs in San Jose. I think most of the people who bought homes in Patterson generally wound up commuting through Tracy & over to Silicon Valley by way of 580.

Personally, I never wanted that kind of a work commute. Even commuting from Tracy over to Pleasanton/Dublin was a good 45 minutes or longer twenty years ago, but I knew things were insane a few years after I moved up here and it took like two hours on a Saturday morning to get to Tracy from Castro Valley. I can remember when that was a 40 minutes drive tops - my mom used to make it from her office in Dublin to our front door on the eastern side of Tracy in 25 minutes when I was a freshman in high school.

 

[MacMadame]

I would say it started to become a trend 20 years ago but also it exploded during the pandemic.

Btw, they have a commuter train now from Stockton to San Jose. It helps, but traffic in our town is crazy because of the people who live east of us but work west of us. There are a lot of places where you can't get there directly via a freeway so have to cross through.