Definitely an amazing place for ice skating purpos...

Definitely an amazing place for ice skating purposes.

For public skating, the giant "ice track" (usually for speed skating practice) is opened to the public for about $8 a person which includes skate rentals. I found it cool that you can choose to switch out your standard figure skates for hockey skates.

In the middle of the ice track, there are 2 hockey rinks. There are multiples of hockey games that go on throughout the day from kids to older adults. You skate around them on the ice track.

There is also a small snack bar under the skating area with pizza, nachos, hot dogs, sodas, and slushies

I give it 4 stars instead of 5 though because they do not resurface (Zamboni) the ice very often at all. At other skate rinks I've been to, the ice is resurfaced every hour or so. At the pettit ice center, the hockey rinks are re surfaced often, but the public skating rink was not resurfaced for multiple hours!
I got there at 3pm, and skated til 9pm. The ice was already heavily scraped up when I got there, but was not resurfaced until 6pm.
This meant skating was rather bumpy. And for beginners, it was pretty easy to hit a chipped up spot and fall.

Good luck to all who go. I had a fun time.