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Your A-List: Best Place to Skate
“All right, boys and girls, everyone on the floor, it’s all skate …”
The voice over the PA still rings in my ears from lo those many years ago when every birthday party seemed mandidated by law to take place at a skating rink.
When faced with the Your A-List poll choice of Best Place to Skate, the people spoke and the modern Veloway narrowly edged out Playland Skate Center, with the outdoor skating area taking the prize over the more old-school indoor rink by a nose - two votes to be precise.
From the Veloway Web site: “The Veloway is Southwest Austin’s first trail exclusively for bicycles and rollerblading. Located on more than 100 acres in the Slaughter Creek Metropolitan Park, the Veloway is a 3.1-mile paved asphalt loop 23 feet wide. It is totally free of motorized traffic. The trail is open from dawn to dusk.”
While some Austinites like to get their roll on under big Central Texas skies, others prefer the tried-and-true hardwoods of Playland Skate Center, Austin’s largest indoor skating rink. From the Playland site: “Playland offers the finest in skating entertainment with an impressive light show, fog machine and state of the art sound system playing a wide variety of music. Playland Skate Center has been in business for over 20 years offering children and adults a safe, fun, clean and entertaining roller skating experience.”
Now, everyone on the floor (trail), it’s all skate.
Others receiving votes
- Whole Foods plaza during the holidays, 14 percent
- Chapparal Ice, 12 percent
- Skate Park of Austin, 9 percent
- Skate World, 8 percent
- Mabel Davis Park, 3 percent
- Austin Recreation Center, 2 percent
- Intellect Rollers Realm, 2 percent
- Millenium Youth Entertainment Complex, 1 percent
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