(La Porte, IN) - It's a disappointing end of the season for the ice-skating rink in downtown La Porte, which will begin being disassembled for the season.

 

Parks Superintendent Mark Schreiber noted how the refrigerated rink was originally scheduled to come down after Winterfest, but it would have been nice to use it one more time before it’s taken apart this week.

 

The rink was originally meant to open with the annual seasonal festival in La Porte, but rainy, mild weather and an inability to produce enough ice for skating in response ultimately melted those plans. 

 

Free skating at the rink on Friday had to be canceled because the ice had melted due to rain from the previous night. The hope was to reopen the rink on Saturday and Sunday, but conditions remained too damp and unseasonably warm for enough ice to form.

 

“Once that rain deteriorates the rink, any amount of rain makes it hard to build back up again. They struggled getting to a point where they could build it up,” Schreiber said.

 

The city-owned rink at Lincolnway and Monroe Street will go into storage until it can be reassembled in late November.