As the pandemic winter drags on, many Massachusetts parents with cooped up kids are finding a solution just steps from the garage: build a backyard ice rink. “We have two kids, and as you can imagine, ...

For ice-happy northerners, the hottest trend in hockey is the coolest part of winter. Here’s how to get your own backyard hockey rink. For the hoi polloi, the day after Thanksgiving is all about Black ...

It was the pair of ice skates that his daughter found under the tree in December, coupled with the colder Januarys in recent years, that convinced Arnold resident Justin Ruff to build an ice rink in ...

Christine Ruff’s husband, Justin Ruff, built a backyard ice rink in Arnold that their three daughters have been skating on this week. According to Christine, “He has a construction background, and ...

Caleb Hoogendam, 18, skates around his the makeshift hockey rink in his backyard in the Mead area Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. The rink was fashioned from plywood and plastic sheeting. The ice was melting ...

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story referred to Turo’s ice resurfacing machine as a “Zamboni.” The Zamboni Company USA subsequently reached out to us, stating that our reference to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lincoln Keating, age 7, balances a ball on the end of his hockey stick as he skates around his family's backyard ice rink. His ...

When the sun goes down in the winter, Sarah Maguire sends her husband Ryan outside to their Milton backyard skating rink to perform what she calls “ice maintenance.” With their yellow lab, Sully, by ...

LIVONIA (WXYZ) — “If you build it, they will come” is a movie quote Lance Antrobius has heard time and time again. The longtime Livonia resident’s backyard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREWSBURY ― Will O'Connor, 5, hits the ice before school, after school and even right before bedtime. David Turnblom gets his son ...

A family in Philadelphia's Fox Chase neighborhood is making the most of the chilly weather. They've converted their backyard into an ice skating rink, and it's now in its 10th year running. "I ...

A Canadian tradition, the backyard rink, may be in trouble in the coming years in much of the country, including P.E.I. That's the conclusion of a group of geographers at Wilfred Laurier University in ...