Rockford Park District

On Halloween weekend Carlson Ice Arena and Sapora Playworld in Rockford will be offering frighteningly awesome discounts and a whole bunch of spooky fun!

One of Rockford's favorite, family-friendly Fall events kicks off next weekend at Lockwood Park.

Of course you can do it. A better question probably would be whether or not you would even want to do it.

Alpine Pool in Rockford is still closed after more than a year, and it's not COVID's fault this time.

The Rockford Park District has closed Saturn Park's playground due to safety hazards, but they hope the community will help them bring the fun back.

Frosty Fridays, the discounted public ice skating sessions at Carlson Ice Arena are back, but there is one important thing you need to know before you go.

Even though it feels like Spring outside, there's still some ice skating fun to be had here in Rockford.
Rockford Park District's Carlson Ice Arena is reopening to the public! If your kids have officially done EVERYTHING they can around the house, and in your back yard, why not take them ic…

Looking outside, I can see that the problematic weather that pushed back this year's Illinois Snow Sculpting Competition a week (the weather interfered with snow-making equipment) is quite obviously gone.

Whatever your memories of Riverview Ice House may be, from playing hockey to skating with friends to crunching your tailbone after a clumsy fall (that's mine), it's nice to know you'll be able to make more.

When 2020 pandemic boredom struck kids back in the Summer or Fall, it was easy to just tell the kids to go play outside. But now that we're in the brute on Winter, you might need some help keeping the kids busy. Especially with all that's going on with e-learning and "adaptive pau…