Outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks

This dataset includes data on outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks (AIR) and skate trails maintained by the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation (PFR) division.

The City operates more than 50 locations with outdoor rinks and skating trails, consisting of approximately 70 ice pads and skating trails.

Artificial ice rinks are located in parks, on playgrounds, at Community Recreation Centres, and at Civic Centre Squares. The dataset provides details on location information, ice rink (i.e. pad) size and lighting conditions.

The operational status of an outdoor artificial ice rink is updated in near real-time by staff throughout the day. The most updated information can be found by accessing the JSON file linked below:

https://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/live/skate_allupdates.json

Operational Statuses include:

0 = closed
1 = open
2 = service alert

The json file and the rink list should be joined by first parsing the numeric digits from the [locations] column in the json, and then joining to the rink file on [locationid]. Note: The json file will only show status information for ice pads that have active service alerts on them.

The data provided is sourced from the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Asset Management System. The dataset has been validated on-site by parks supervisors and through necessary inter-divisional staff.

Note:

This dataset only contains information about outdoor artificial ice rinks and skate trails maintained by Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division of the City of Toronto. Natural ice rinks are not included in this dataset and more information can be found on Toronto.ca/rec. All other outdoor ice rinks and skate trails (either public, or private) are out of scope of this dataset.

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Field	Value
Last Updated	December 17, 2025, 18:40 (UTC)
Created	December 17, 2025, 18:40 (UTC)
Domain / Topic Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.	Parks and recreation
Title Title for the Dataset.	Outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks
Description A description of the dataset.	This dataset includes data on outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks (AIR) and skate trails maintained by the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation (PFR) division. The City operates more than 50 locations with outdoor rinks and skating trails, consisting of approximately 70 ice pads and skating trails. Artificial ice rinks are located in parks, on playgrounds, at Community Recreation Centres, and at Civic Centre Squares. The dataset provides details on location information, ice rink (i.e. pad) size and lighting conditions. The operational status of an outdoor artificial ice rink is updated in near real-time by staff throughout the day. The most updated information can be found by accessing the JSON file linked below: https://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/live/skate_allupdates.json Operational Statuses include: 0 = closed 1 = open 2 = service alert The json file and the rink list should be joined by first parsing the numeric digits from the [locations] column in the json, and then joining to the rink file on [locationid]. Note: The json file will only show status information for ice pads that have active service alerts on them. The data provided is sourced from the City of Toronto Parks, Forestry and Recreation Asset Management System. The dataset has been validated on-site by parks supervisors and through necessary inter-divisional staff. Note: This dataset only contains information about outdoor artificial ice rinks and skate trails maintained by Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division of the City of Toronto. Natural ice rinks are not included in this dataset and more information can be found on Toronto.ca/rec. All other outdoor ice rinks and skate trails (either public, or private) are out of scope of this dataset.
Tags / Keywords Keywords/tags categorizing the dataset.	ice rink outdoor ice rink
Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc) File format of the dataset.
Dataset Size Dataset size in megabytes.
Metadata Identifier Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
Published Date Published date of the dataset.	2019-07-23
Time Period Data Span (start date) Start date of the data in the dataset.
Time Period Data Span (end date) End date of time data in the dataset.
GeoSpatial Area Data Span A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.

Field	Value
Access category Type of access granted for the dataset (open, closed, service, etc).
License License used to access the dataset.	License not specified
Limits on use Limits on use of data.
Location Location of the dataset.	https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/outdoor-artificial-ice-rinks
Data Service Data service for accessing a dataset.
Owner Owner of the dataset.	Parks, Forestry & Recreation, [email protected]
Contact Point Who to contact regarding access?
Contact Point Email The email to contact regarding access?
Publisher Publisher of the dataset.
Publisher Email Email of the publisher.	[email protected]
Author Author of the dataset.	[email protected]
Author Email Email of the author.	[email protected]
Accessed At Date the data and metadata was accessed.

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Identifier Unique identifier for the dataset.
Language Language(s) of the dataset
Link to dataset description A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
Persistent Identifier Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
Globally Unique Identifier Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
Contains data about individuals Does the data hold data about individuals?
Contains data about identifiable individuals Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
Contains Indigenous Data Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
Portal Type Platform type of the source portal.

Field	Value
Version Version of the datatset	None
Source Source of the dataset.	https://www.toronto.ca/data/parks/prd/facilities/outdoor-rinks/index.html
Version notes Version notes about the dataset.
Is version of another dataset Link to dataset that it is a version of.
Other versions Link to datasets that are versions of it.
Provenance Text Provenance Text of the data.
Provenance URL Provenance URL of the data.
Temporal resolution Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
GeoSpatial resolution in meters Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
GeoSpatial resolution (in regions) Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.

Field	Value
Indigenous Community Permission Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
Community Permission Community permission (who gave permission).
The Indigenous communities the dataset is about Indigenous communities from which data is derived.

Field	Value
Number of data rows If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
Number of data columns If tabular dataset, total number of unique columns.
Number of data cells If tabular dataset, total number of cells with data.
Number of data relations If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
Number of entities If RDF dataset, total number of entities.
Number of data properties If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
Data quality Describes the quality of the data in the dataset.
Metric for data quality A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.

Outdoor Artificial Ice Rinks

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