Dillon Town Park will be closed to the public this winter, and many of the planned improvements at the park are being pushed to 2022, according to Dillon’s Marketing and Communications Director Kerstin Anderson. Dillon.
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Summit County is without question a ski and snowboard destination, but your skills on the snow could translate to the ice, and trying your hand at ice skating could improve your carving out on the hill.
“The edging is similar,” said Tara Lane, a skating instructor for the town of Breckenridge. “You have your inside edge, your bottom of your blade, which is flat, and then the outside edge. Your weight transfer and the rolling edge to edge is the same, but the difference is the bottom of a skate is much skinnier, so you move from edge to edge faster. If you’re pretty proficient on skates, you will be able to understand edge transfer, weight transfer and how to turn on the mountain better than someone who doesn’t know how to skate and vice versa from skiing to skating.”
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Silverthorne has opened up various free winter activities, including parks for ice skating, ice fishing and sledding and trails for Nordic skiing and snowshoeing.
In a news release, the town announced that it had opened the North Pond Park ice rink, which can used to ice skate or, on the south end of the pond, ice fish. The ice rink is plowed and maintained by the town’s public works department.
Restrooms are open, but the warming hut is closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. The park is located across the street from Silverthorne Elementary at Hamilton Creek Road and Colorado Highway 9. Skating is available from dawn to dusk, and restrooms are open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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