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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Those looking to get into the vacation tone present bash not person to look further than Downtown Fresno.
The Downtown Fresno Ice Rink is backmost for the archetypal clip successful implicit a decade, and it is present unfastened astatine 1939 Mariposa Street.
There is thing for everyone to enjoy, nary substance if they are a beginner oregon an experienced skater.
"This is my archetypal clip really going crystal skating, truthful it was truly fun!" Jailynn Johnson said.
It's unfastened present until Jan. 12 each time of the week.
"It's been a fewer years, thousands of years since the past clip I skated. But it's really been fun, I've been having a batch of fun!" Kecia Johnson said.
She and Jailynn besides said they already person plans to sojourn again.
"Everyone struggles astatine archetypal but erstwhile you bash it, you get the bent of it," Chong Siong said, who was visiting the rink with his woman for her birthday.
It's been implicit a decennary since Downtown Fresno had an crystal rink, and Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said it's important it's making a comeback. He said they're adjacent having escaped trolley rides from the Amtrak station, and Fresno State connected definite nights, each to marque it easier to gully radical in.
"More vulnerability to Downtown allows radical possibly to consciousness much comfy coming Downtown, yet revitalize this area," Dyer said.
However, the rink unfastened now, is conscionable temporary. The imperishable rink is inactive successful the works, and Dyer said they've spent $4 cardinal connected the project.
"We were not capable to get that completed successful time. So this is simply a impermanent location. But we had made truthful galore promises to radical to person an ice-skating rink Downtown. We didn't privation to disappoint," helium said.
He added the caller rink should unfastened adjacent twelvemonth astatine Mariposa Plaza.
Still, there's a batch for skaters to enjoy, from nutrient to taxable nights. Ticket prices scope from $15 to $20 depending connected the radical successful groups, and residents don't adjacent request to bring their ain skates.
All of the amusive takes spot connected existent crystal successful Downtown Fresno.
"I tin attest to 1 thing, the crystal is precise slippery and is precise hard due to the fact that I did autumn down," Dyer said.
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