Trends · data through September 2026

Skating Rinks in the United States

Iceflower tracks 956 stores from 856 skating rink chains in the United States. Ice Palace grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Rink and Roller Kingdom.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
856
Tracked stores
956
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked skating rink chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Ice Palace and The Rink sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ice Palace - +15.6%
2 The Rink ▲1 +14.6%
3 Roller Kingdom - +11.4%
4 Astro Skate of Tarpon Springs - +8.9%
5 Skatetown - +6.8%
6 United Skates of America - +6.3%
7 Sparkles - +4.0%
8 Skateland - +2.5%
9 Classic Fun Center - +2.0%
10 Skate Station Funworks ▲1 +0.9%
11 Roller City ▼1 -0.5%
12 Sparkles Family Fun Center - -10.1%
13 Rollerworld - -13.0%
14 Skate World ▼1 -15.1%
  • Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums
  • Classic Fun Center
  • Skateland
  • Skate City
  • United Skates of America
  • Astro Skate of Tarpon Springs
  • Skate Zone
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

956 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 56 of the 956 stores (6%); 819 of the 856 tracked chains have a single store here.

  • Carousel Resort Hotel & Condominiums (1)
  • Classic Fun Center (3)
  • Skateland (17)
  • Skate City (16)
  • United Skates of America (7)
  • Astro Skate of Tarpon Springs (6)
  • Skate Zone (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Skateland 17
  • 2 Skate City 16
  • 3 Skate World 10
  • 4 United Skates of America 7
  • 5 Astro Skate of Tarpon Springs 6
  • 6 The Rink 5
  • 7 Roller City 5
  • 8 Skatetown 4
  • 9 Sparkles Family Fun Center 3
  • 10 Sparkles 3
  • 11 Rollerworld 3
  • 12 Roller Kingdom 3
  • 13 Ice Palace 3
  • 14 Skate Station Funworks 3
  • 15 Skate Zone 3
  • 16 Classic Fun Center 3
  • 17 United Skates 2
  • 18 Hot Wheels Skate Center 2
  • 19 Ice Chalet 2
  • 20 Skate Odyssey 2
  • 21 Skate Country 2
  • 22 Troy Sports Center 2
  • 23 Family Fun Zone 2
  • 24 Dreamland Skate Center 2
  • 25 Round-A-Bout Skating Center 2
  • 26 Great Skate 2
  • 27 Kate's Skating Rink 2
  • 28 Polar Ice 2
  • 29 Baptist Health IcePlex 1
  • 30 Suburban Ice Macomb 1
  • 31 South Windsor Arena 1
  • 32 RollerWorld NorthEast 1
  • 33 Moonlight Rollerway 1
  • 34 Rivergate Skate Center 1
  • 35 Skates 280 1
  • 36 Pearwood Skate Center 1
  • 37 Roll Arena Party Zone 1
  • 38 Roller Motion Skate Center 1
  • 39 Rolling Thunder Skating Center 1
  • 40 in-line 309 1
  • 41 Brentwood Skate Center 1
  • 42 Mountain View Ice Arena 1
  • 43 Hamilton Community Center & Ice Arena 1
  • 44 Outpost Ice Arenas 1
  • 45 Carol Stream Ice Rink 1
  • 46 Top Shelf Ice Arena 1
  • 47 Johnny's Ice House 1
  • 48 American Heartland Ice Arena 1
  • 49 Skate Zone Wetumpka 1
  • 50 Crystal Palace Rancho Page 1

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