Warming huts, ice bikes return to river trail
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This article was published 05/02/2025 (488 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There’s a whole world down on the frozen rivers again.
On Jan. 25, The Forks officially opened the full Nestaweya River Trail, which stretches six kilometres from the Hugo Docks on the Assiniboine River to Churchill Drive on the Red River. A day earlier, The Forks unveiled six new warming huts, designed by artists and architects both local and from Scotland, Hong Kong, and the United States.
Along with the hundreds of skaters, pedestrians, skiers, and more who have taken to the rivers since, many can be seen cruising the trail on unique ice bikes, which can be rented at the foot of the footbridge at The Forks from local enterprise Ice Cycles. The bikes can also be rented at the duck pond at Assiniboine Park.
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The Forks warming hut, Wrong Turn, 2025.
For updated trail conditions and more information, visit theforks.com/skate
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The Forks, warming hut Pom Pom, 2025
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The Forks, warming hut Prairie Castle, 2025
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Warming hut at The Forks.
Photo by Sheldon Birnie
On Jan. 25, the Forks officially opened the full Nestaweya River Trail, which stretches six kilometres from the Hugo Docks on the Assiniboine River to the Churchill Drive on the Red River (pictured)