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Ice skating rinks are open across Western North Carolina and Upstate SC
Karen Chávez, Asheville Citizen Times
© Courtesy of Sugar Mountain Ski Resort
Ice skating on the 10,000-square-foot rink at Sugar Mountain Ski Resort is open through March.
Long gone are the days of ice skating in Asheville over the long winter holiday break.
The rink that used to be overflowing with cold noses, hot chocolate and skaters attempting sit spins and toe loops disappeared when the minor league hockey team, the Asheville Smoke, left the then-Asheville Civic Center ice rink in 2009.
It is now known as the Harrah s Cherokee Center, and it hosts all manner of sporting events but still no ice, and none in the plans any time soon. ....

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