When Can You Actually Skate at Queeny Park This Winter?

The public ice at Greensfelder Recreation Complex adds up to sixteen and a half hours a week. Friday has five and a half of them. Saturday has one session, and it starts at 8 p.m. Sunday has one too, from 3 to 4:30 in the afternoon.

That schedule comes from St. Louis County Parks' rink page for the season that started October 3, 2026 and runs through February 21, 2027. The same page says the rink holds both public skating sessions and hockey games all season. The county's live status line covers "practices, games, and public sessions" together. Public skaters get one share of a busy sheet of ice. If you live in Ballwin or Town and Country and think of Queeny as a Saturday-afternoon stop, the rink's calendar works differently. Friday is the day to plan around.

The Week on the Ice

Queeny Park sits in unincorporated St. Louis County, according to Wikipedia's entry on the park, which cites the county. Its entrances are at 550 Weidman Road and 1675 South Mason Road, and the Greensfelder complex is one of its amenities. Here is the posted public skate schedule for 2026–27:

Friday by itself has almost twice the public ice of Saturday and Sunday combined. It is also the only day with three different windows, so the same rink suits a midmorning skate with toddlers, an after-school skate and a date-night skate. Monday through Thursday, the only option is late morning. That works for preschoolers, retirees and anyone with a flexible workday, and it rules out most school-age kids until Friday afternoon.

On weekends, the decision comes down to two time slots. The Sunday 3 p.m. session is the one daytime weekend window. Saturday's 8 to 9:30 p.m. session suits older kids, teens and adults more than young families.

What a Session Costs

Admission is $6 for children ages 4 to 12, $8 for ages 13 to 64 and $6 for seniors 65 and older. Children 3 and under skate free with a skating adult. Skate rental is $3 per person. Two adults and two children ages 4 to 12, all renting skates, pay $40 for a session. A family that owns its skates pays $28.

Those prices match last season exactly. The county's Greensfelder complex page lists the 2025–26 season as October 4, 2025 through February 22, 2026, with the same $6, $8 and $6 tiers, the same $3 rental and the same weekly session times. The only difference is that this season starts and ends one calendar day earlier. If last winter's routine worked for you, it still works.

The Holiday Weeks Take Away the Best Days

The rink closes on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Hours can also change around holidays, bad weather or special events. Thanksgiving always lands on a Thursday, so that week loses a weekday morning session. Christmas lands on Friday, December 25, this year, which takes the busiest public day of the week, and its five and a half hours, out of Christmas week.

Winter break has rink programming of its own:

• Skate Camp, ages 5 to 12. Session 1 runs December 21 and 22, and Session 2 runs December 28 and 29, both from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The camp mixes crafts, games and group skating, costs $50 per session and requires preregistration through the county's online recreation catalog.
• Adult Stick and Puck, ages 16 and older. It runs Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1 to 3 p.m., October 6, 2026 through February 18, 2027. Players need a USA Hockey-approved helmet with a full face shield or cage and must bring their own stick, puck and gloves. Each session is capped at 20 players.
• Stick and Puck gaps. There are no sessions on December 22, December 24, December 29 or December 31. Two of those dates, December 22 and 29, are also Skate Camp days.

Since Christmas takes Friday off the table, the regular Monday-through-Thursday 10 a.m. sessions, Sunday afternoon and Saturday night are the public ice left during break week. The county suggests calling the rink at 314-615-8472 to check availability. Doing that before any holiday-week trip saves a wasted drive.

An Unchanged Rink in a Year of County Cuts

The identical schedule stands out given how this year has gone for county parks. In February 2026, St. Louis Public Radio reported that County Executive Sam Page was closing the summer pools at St. Vincent Aquatic Center in Normandy and Kennedy Recreation Complex in south St. Louis County. Page called those reductions the "first round." On August 4, voters rejected Proposition U, the proposed county use tax on online purchases, with 65% voting no, FOX 2 reported.

Through all of that, Greensfelder's public schedule did not change, and its status line still reads "All practices, games, and public sessions are running as scheduled."

Next year's budget proposal does name Queeny Park, though. At a County Council Budget Committee meeting covered by St. Louis Public Radio on October 14, 2026, acting Parks and Recreation Director Eric Johnson said Page's proposed budget pauses projects including the update to Queeny Park's Jarville House. The proposal also defers maintenance elsewhere, eliminates programs like summer camps and community celebrations, and would cut 28 park ranger positions. In the same report, Johnson said:

"We are fast becoming a passive-use parks department with very few services."

That budget is still a proposal. The county published it on October 1 as a recommended plan, and STLPR's October 14 report says council members wanted to explore other funding options. For this skating season, the posted schedule is the one to plan around.

The Jarville House is one of the oldest buildings in the park. The county says Hyacinth Renard built it around 1854, that it is one of Missouri's best surviving Greek Revival examples, and that it was listed on the National Register in 1984. The American Kennel Club's Museum of the Dog moved in in 1987 and returned to New York in 2018.

Pairing the Rink With the Rest of Queeny

With weekend sessions this short, a skate fits easily into a longer stop at the park. The Teddy Gooch and Friends Unlimited Play Playground opened on August 24, 2025, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch called it "the most inclusive opening in the region." On a Sunday, playground time before the 3 p.m. session makes a full afternoon for younger kids.

For dog owners, Tails and Trails is a five-acre, membership-only dog park on the Mason Road side of Queeny. Hikers can use the Hawk Ridge Trail, where the county finished a $228,000 bridge replacement in 2025.

Season tip: the last scheduled public session falls on Sunday, February 21, 2027, from 3 to 4:30 p.m., if the weekly pattern holds to the end. Check the county page that week before you go.

Over 20-plus years of helping families in West County, we've seen how often the fit of a neighborhood comes down to which weekday routines are close to home. If you'd like to talk through what a short drive to places like Queeny Park could mean for your next move, The Jeff Lottmann Group is glad to help. Schedule a market consultation.