Lock 3 Park

Lock 3 is a great place to go for many different events. The free concert series in the summer is incredibly, family friendly. They have every type of band down there to meet everyone’s likes. The Lock also has many other type of events throughout the summer for everyone. From Brews n Blues to the marathons. In the winter time the Lock has a ice skating rink that families seem to enjoy very much. Being an Akronite my whole life it is great to have a place like this downtown!

Love Hamburger Festival but they need to do a FAR better job of getting restaurants around — how about just around OH to participate! Run very
Loosely — would be a super easy festival to under-​age drink in.
On weekends the shelters flush out the street people so you get some of that. Amazing number of them for a small town. And many of them look dangerous. But the area is well-​populated for events and the cops are always around. And if you grew up in Akron or Cleve-​O, you aren’t afraid if any wine-​o anyhow.
The park itself is cool. I love the amphitheater sitting below the street and surrounded by various buildings. Plus there is a very nice ballpark down the street, and you can drink beer and eat and not even watch the mind-​numbingly dull baseball games. Yea!
Very nice job on Akron’s part to use otherwise dead downtown space. Akron lives!

Fun for the whole family

This is a good time! Grab your favorite person/​s and enjoy a relaxed environment with live music, food and drinks. You’ll be outside enjoying the beautiful weather while meeting new people and enjoying the old. Love it.

Lock 3
Akron, Ohio
Wednesday December 28, 2011
Four Stars
This is simply a great place to take any child under 12 or date who can’t ice skate. There is an abundance of parking in the structure, but we like idiots parked in the meter and didn’t put enough quarters in the machine. (Luckily a parking ticket is only ten dollars). Form the parking structure. The elevator leads you to the skate rental shop. It costs a mere $ 3 dollars/​person for a pair of skates. I got a pair of black figure skating blades (which is first for me), but they are comfortable and it makes spinning a lot easier. We then proceeded to the small outdoor rink. The ice was super choppy, but it’s a great place to teach the little ones to skate. There are bunch of kids and adults falling all over the place. There really isn’t any time limit, but after an hour, I was completely done. We then bought a three $ 1 hot chocolate and went home. This is a cheap and great way to spend a winter day.

The centerpiece of Downtown Akron’s «revitalization», Lock 3 Park is along the Ohio & Erie Canal between State and Bowery Streets, and actually contains former Locks 3 & 4. Sure, the idea of building a public venue along a glorified sewage dump might seem like a silly idea, but the park has actually become a great place to host festivals and concerts.
My favorite festival, the National Hamburger Festival, is a weekend-​long festival in August that embraces the hamburger. Hamburgers here are served in every style imaginable, and can even be found deep-​fried. Huzzah.
There are also concerts here every now and then. I’ve only been to one, which I was too drunk to remember much about. I just remember it being a surprisingly good venue for being located between buildings and located along the canal. In the past, such acts as Devo and countless shitty cover bands have performed for free or for minimal charge.
The winters are when the kiddies come to Lock 3. Why do they come here in droves? Ice skating. The ice skating here is best in the region, hands down.
Overall, Lock 3 Park is not worth missing out on, especially during a festival.

Lock 3 is a great area in Downtown Akron. It’s right along the canal and is host to many events throughout the year. In the summer, there are many outdoor concerts, of which I’ve been to none, but I’ve heard they’re fun and I want to go to one next summer. In the winter, they have an ice skating rink and during the Holidays, they set up the Chriskindl Market and the Hutzenstub. The Chriskindl Market is an outdoor market with merchants selling authentic German gifts. They are actually from Chemnitz, Germany, Akron’s sister city. They spend the Holidays living and working in Akron. I am currently taking German, so it’s always fun to go down there and experience a small piece of Germany. The Hutzenstub is a cafeteria serving authentic German food. The food is great. It’s inexpensive too. The ice skating rink is a nice sized rink. It is free if you have your own skates and only $ 2 for rentals. It’s best at night during the Holidays when all of the lights are on. Overall, if you are looking for some fun in Akron at almost any point in the year, head over to Lock 3.