Hilltop Recreation Area

1200 8th Street SW

Hilltop Recreation Area offers outdoor skating rinks which are open daily after school and all day on non-school days. There are two boarded rinks for organized and recreation hockey activities and one open rink for recreational use. The lighted skating rinks offer nighttime skating for people of all ages, with outdoor bathroom facilities and a warming house. Helmets must be worn by anyone under 18 on the boarded rinks. This area is also the location of some of the youth soccer activities in the spring and youth flag-football activities in the fall. These two activities are offered by the:

For more information about indoor skating contact the Pine City Civic Center.

Under Construction!

Pine City Youth Hockey (PCYH) and Pine City Area Pickleball (PCAP) believe that people are paying more attention to their physical and mental health, and that a community needs to provide affordable recreational and leisure opportunities for businesses, organizations, and residents of all ages to enjoy. That is why PCYH and PCAP are on a volunteer and fundraising mission to improve the Hilltop Recreation Area.

We need your support. Please donate so we can provide safe, accessible, and quality recreation & leisure facilities for us all to enjoy.

Follow all FOUR Phases of the Project on Facebook

Phase One: Complete!

Use agreements were renewed with the City, Civic Center, Youth Hockey and the water source was repaired to allow easier flooding of the skating rinks.

Phase Two: Goal to be completed by September 30, 2020

Construction of a multi-use building (locker rooms, bathrooms, concessions, lobby area, storage for maintenance & recreation equipment) to replace the warming house. Removal of existing warming house and regrading of the northwest corner of the park to improve drainage and create a dry area for soccer & flag-football.

Phase Three: Goal to be completed by September 30, 2021

Pour concrete inside main boarded (hockey) rink with new boards & players benches. Concrete will be lined for pickle ball courts and basketball hoops.

Impervious liners will be installed within the rinks to preserve water.

Phase Four: Goal to be completed by September 30, 2022

A canopy will be installed over the main ice hockey rink and bleachers will be provided within the park for spectators.

Volunteer Liability Release Form

Are you wanting to contribute your time and talents to this project?

Our legal and liability team requires us to collect a volunteer liability release form for each and every volunteer for each and every project involving City land, buildings, equipment and activities.

Please follow the link to complete this form and THANK YOU for giving your time and talents to help make our community better!

Support the Volunteers with a Meal

The park improvement project is being done mostly through volunteer labor and many gracious donations. To show our community's appreciation, we would like to provide a meal and beverages when they are working. Follow the link to sign-up on the Meal Train, or make a monetary donation which will be used to have food a beverages delivered.