Boston City Limit » Frog Pond http://www.bostoncitylimit.com Best of Boston Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:40:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Boston Common Fun: Ice Skating & Hot Chocolate at the Frog Pond http://www.bostoncitylimit.com/2010/01/14/boston-common-fun-ice-skating-hot-chocolate-at-the-frog-pond/ http://www.bostoncitylimit.com/2010/01/14/boston-common-fun-ice-skating-hot-chocolate-at-the-frog-pond/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:20:16 +0000 Chrissie http://www.bostoncitylimit.com/?p=4235 The Frog Pond is open for the season. Sharpen those skates, or rent some! A hopping spot for ice-skating is the Frog Pond on the Boston Common. Although dependent on the weather, Frog Pond has its own ice-making system. It also offers skate rentals and hot cocoa at the Pond Cottage.

This year the Frog Pond introduces freestyle skating on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. for $12 a session. Don’t forget to bring your own skates, because there are no rentals during that time.

Season Passes
Individual season passes are available for $100, family passes are $150, and a lunchtime pass good Monday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (holidays excluded), is available for $60.

Mass Transit:
Park Street Station on the Red and Green Lines.

The prime location of Frog Pond makes it easy to squeeze in just an hour or so of ice skating. Why not go skating while waiting for a movie at the Boston Common Loews Theater? Or go skating to relax after a crazy day of shopping in the nearby Downtown Crossing. And for the hopeless romantics out there, go skating under the starlit sky and finish it off with a stroll in the park.

For more information, call (617) 635-2121.

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]]> http://www.bostoncitylimit.com/2010/01/14/boston-common-fun-ice-skating-hot-chocolate-at-the-frog-pond/feed/ 5 Ice Skating @ Boston Common’s Frog Pond http://www.bostoncitylimit.com/2009/06/22/ice-skating-boston-commons-frog-pond/ http://www.bostoncitylimit.com/2009/06/22/ice-skating-boston-commons-frog-pond/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:30:45 +0000 Chrissie http://www.bostoncitylimit.com/?p=122 Boston Common is the first gem in the city’s so-called Emerald Necklace, a series of linked green spaces. Come November, the Frog Pond (on the Beacon Street side of the Common, 617-635-2120) fills with ice skaters. The rink makes its own ice, so skaters can glide even in relatively balmy temperatures (admission is $3 for adults; skate rental, $7).

If the ice seems too crowded, pause for a moment to gaze at the Common from Boylston and Tremont Streets: the gauzy, lamplight scene inspired Childe Hassam’s ”Boston Common at Twilight,” which you can catch indoors at the Museum of Fine Arts the next morning.

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