River Roll Skate Center

I feel like I am back in fourth grade when I come skate here with my own fourth-​grader — and that’s a good thing. Smooth surfaces, good music, and soft pretzels at the snack bar? Um, yes please!

It was skate night for my daughter’s elementary school. The kids had a blast! Everything was very clean and the staff was friendly and helpful. Amazingly, I managed to skate after 20+ years and didn’t break anything :-)
Thank you Unilocal for the free drink with check in.

If the thought of old school roller rinks scares the bejesus out of you, it’s totally fine. You are perfectly normal to feel this way. I think every parent feels this way.
Once a month the school sponsors a skating party here. It’s a fundraiser, so naturally, they pump up the promotion of it at school, send home fluorescent reminder flyers and make several announcements on the PA system psyching out every elementary kid about the skating party. So basically, if you don’t take your kid you must be a real loser parent and are not very cool. So every now and then I must cave in to the madness.
The rink itself is not the most modern, but my opinion means nothing with hoards of children skating to top 40 hits, and squealing with delight. The rink is (surprisingly) decently clean most times that I’ve been there, and although some tables may be showing their age, nothing is that bad. I still bring my box of GermX to give everyone a good wipe down afterwards though. But that’s also for most places I go with kids. (Hint: See review on Fritz’s)
The DJ’s are pretty upbeat and make it fun for the kids. It’s so fun to see these kids whirling around in awkward circles, doing the Elaine «Seinfeld» dance, while listening to current pop tunes that they all enjoy.
They play some fun little games, such as the infamous LIMBO (which I like to point out to my own kids that I won when I was a mere 6 years old-​applause!), and some big overstuffed dice rolling game, and finally close with some funky group moves.
We’ve only been here for skating parties and birthday parties. Never a drop in skater.
My only major complaint is that some of the rental skates need to be dumped. Seriously DUMPED. More than a few times I’ve had to just turn them away and ask for another pair. Try again please. Thankfully on my last visit, the rental counter guy handed me an almost new looking pair. Wow! This was exciting. The interiors looked new still. Again, thrilling! As long as River Roll upgrades some more skates, I’m sure I will be dragged back here for a party or another school night.

RAGGEDY ROLL: Definitely not a top notch place. The kicker was when we went up to the concession stand, they do not provide you a courtesy cup of ice water. Instead they try to get you to buy a bottle of water, or worse yet, tell you to drink out of their nasty disgusting water fountain that has been sucked on by WHO KNOWS HOW MANY LIPS with hundreds of kids passing their germs along on any given evening. What a bunch of cheap skates, seriously? You should at least offer a PAYING customer a free cup of ice water, not leave us to choke and die after buying your salty popcorn and your mediocre pizza, LOL, which was DRY by the way. The only plus is that the rink is located at a convenient spot. Otherwise, it is pretty played out, could use some upgrading but fat chance by an ironically «cheap skate» owner. Also, consider playing some tasteful music instead of accommodating the thugs that frequent your joint. Rap music with curse words isn’t exactly very smart to have on while toddlers and young children are at your rink. Good luck!!! My tips: Sneak in your own drinks and food and do not spend an xtra dime there unless you absolutely HAVE TO. Also, they try to trick you into spending even MORE money on a «glowstick» and tell you that you are not allowed to skate for certain periods unless you do so. What a jip after spending $ 8 bucks to get in and skate rental fees. I think I will ROLL ON away from your joint. P. S. Not everyone drinks soda pop, it is TERRIBLE for you, I was not looking for anything FREE, except a cup of ice water with your food that I had PURCHASED. A tiny one would have sufficed.

Great place to take the kids; close to highway access. It’s the cleanest skating rink ice ever been to… was very impressed. Would give 5 stars but the bathrooms unfortunately were not clean at all the last couple times we went.

Not real happy with this place. It was great when all was well, but the last two time my daughter went there her skates were falling apart. The wheel was coming off and when we took it to counter they said… too bad. There were none left her size and they weren’t going to refund her money (she had skated 15 minutes only, before wheel was falling off).
They said she didn’t know how to skate. (She’s been going for 3 years). They said they were unable to fix it and was very unprofessional. We won’t go back again.

Great Family fun. Had a private party there and it was a lot of fun. Has lots of nightly specials. Also lessons, after my son’s first experience he might need the lessons.

My kids LOVE this place. I have fond memories of our local roller rink growing up, and this place has all of the things that lead to those memories. A decent snack bar. a great friendly staff. Clean bathrooms. Plenty of seating. Clean skate rentals. video game area, air hockey and ski ball. everything a tween could ever want. We go almost every fri night for teen skate (7:30−10:30 for 7 $ a person) and there is a local fundraising night for our school as well we go to monthly.

When I was a kid I was pretty good at ice skating, but sadly, I was *dreadful* at rollerskating. As in, I’d put on a pair of skates, stand up and attempt to get movin’ only to fall flat on my a$$. Get up. Repeat. And I kept trying, to no avail. Fail.
But… I once found a wallet in the parking lot of the roller rink that I used to frequent (what? you think a silly thing like constant falling would stop me from hanging out at one of the coolest spot in town for a fifth grader? The ice rink sure as hell didn’t have Donna Summer or Blondie pumping through the sound system). The wallet score was a good omen (it had EIGHT dollars in it!) and I was determined to keep on skating. Only I kept on sucking.
I have this horrific memory of a gang of older teens holding hands as they expertly maneuvered the rink and I got in their way. That wasn’t pretty. Let’s stop talking about it.
River Roll reminds me a heck of a lot of the United Skates of America in Massapequa, Long Island, where I cut my teeth… that is, cut my wheels and broke my teeth (that’s an exaggeration, but sounds kind of cool). It even has this cool astro-​themed carpet, disco balls, cool lighting, a snack bar with Icees and of course the killer sound system.
And it’s home to Dead Girl Derby! I went to my first DGD bout last night and it was awesome. I couldn’t help but relive the dangerous moments of my youth when I’d try to make it around the rink once, only to be knocked down by stronger, more coordinated badass kids. I’d never in a million years consider doing derby myself, but this is a great place to watch it and feel like you’re right there, participating in the action.
Looking at the general skate rates, it’s really reasonable and seems like a great time out for all ages. And then there’s the whole renting out the rink deal so that you can relive those exact moments of childhood ennui, gluttony for punishment and well… leave it to me to turn a review into a psychotherapy session…

This is the home of Dead Girl Derby and the Cowtown Butchers! Skip cares a ton for the rink and it shows. Employees are nice. They make sure the temperature is nice and the place is VERY clean.

I skate at River Roll with roller derby teams. The rink is bright and we get to use our own music for private practices. There is roomy seating for putting on safety gear.

Was a typical skating rink. Played current pop and old classic skate music. Almost always busy each time I’ve gone. It was a good price, and if I’m right you can get a season pass of sorts to get a better deal.

I rented out River Roll for my birthday, cause, I’m a baller like that. It was awesome. All the employees were super helpful and nice and my friends and I had a great time. Skate rental was included as well as the DJ and for a few hours we were our own private party.
Obviously, I now have a new reason to go as the Dead Girl Derby girls have chosen this as the site for their bouts this season.
I can’t wait to go and skate!

I thought the roller derby event was pretty neat to see. They had over 550 people there tonight for it so a little more crowded then I would have liked since we didn’t have a seat but still definitely worth checking out if you haven’t been before.
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I’ve been visiting River Roll about 3 times a week lately, not because I have children or am a school teacher (which I don’t and I’m not), instead I frequent River Roll because I am a roller derby girl. With that being said, I am not at River Roll when it’s open to the public, so I can’t rate or judge the facility based on service. However, I can say that River Roll is quite clean! Their snack bar, tables, lockers, cubbies, restrooms and sales counter are actually immaculate for an older skating rink. I’ve been to other rinks where the restrooms are out of soap and toilet paper (= bad news) at the same time! When out on the rink floor, be weary of the dust/​dirt and other residues which make the floor a bit slippery. Otherwise, River Roll has a lot going for itself.
Please take advantage of everything River Roll has to offer — namely the derby bouts!

I recently got back in to roller skating :) My 7 yr old got an annual pass he loves it SOOO much. This place would have got a 5 star if they would offer inexpensive drink refills for their expensive drinks.
If you don’t know how to skate, or need a refresher, I highly recommend the skate lessons. My son took them & learned everything from stopping properly to standing still to how to get up without putting your precious, vulnerable hands on the floor :)