Top four places to go outdoor skating this winter

Make the most of winter by taking a glide on one of the area’s many outdoor skating rinks and trails.

Here’s a few of our favourites:

Discovery Harbour skating trail: This skate trail at the Penetanguishene historic site creates a unique winter experience. Along with outdoor skating, the site offers the chance to cook bannock over an open fire, rent snowshoes, slide down a snow-tube run and play Crokicurl (a hybrid of crokinole and curling). Best of all, the skates, helmets and snowshoes are included in the admission fee.

Woodview Mountaintop Skating: Sharpen your skates for a fun cruise along this ice-skating loop while enjoying extraordinary views of the Niagara Escarpment. You can rent skates and afterward you can enjoy a hot chocolate while taking in the beauty of Blue Mountain.

Arrowhead Provincial Park: This 1.3-kilometre trail located in the Huntsville area winds through the thick Muskoka forest. The park also hosts Fire and Ice nights on a few select dates throughout the winter where you can skate under the light of hundreds of tiki torches. The trail is open all week long.

Cranberry Ice Skating Trail:Skate a 1.2 km loop on 12 acres of cranberries! After your done skating, stop by the waterfalls and warm up by a fire and then tickle your tastebuds with hot mulled wine or hot cran-apple cider at the winery. The trail is open 7 days a week (weather permitting), but also features a Light the Night skate on Saturday where 400 tiki torches are lit for skating.

Get outdoors and make winter your new friend! Tag us in your photos on social media @georgiancollege.

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