Enoch's Ice Rink Is Named for a Hockey Mom. Here's How to Use It This Winter

"We made Mom proud" was the headline KSL ran in October 2024, after the first hockey games at KJ's Ice Barn in Enoch. On Sept. 27 of that year, the Southern Utah Independent high school team hosted the Tooele Outlaws in a JV-varsity doubleheader. It was the first public event in the new building, which sits at 2550 E Pinnacle Way. The rink is owned and run by the family of the late Kerry Jo Fain. Her initials are the KJ in the name. KSL described her as a longtime hockey mom known for her work promoting the sport across southern Utah.

This is the rink's third winter. Before it opened, ice in Iron County was set up, used and then taken down. KJ's is the first rink here built to stay, so a winter routine built around it should still be there next year.

A Rink That Moved Three Times Before It Landed in Enoch

The rink's About Us page traces more than 12 years of running ice rinks and programs before KJ's opened. That history has three stops, and none of them lasted.

1. The Dixie Igloo in St. George. This is where the youth following started. It led to YETI, which stands for Youth and Enthusiasts Together for Ice. According to the rink, getting those programs going took two years of weekend fundraising, more than 3,500 petition signatures and hundreds of volunteer hours.
2. A semi-permanent rink at the Cedar City Aquatic Center. It grew to more than 150 youth hockey players, two adult leagues, and high school varsity and junior varsity teams. The high school team played in the 2018 state championship. Then the facility was taken down.
3. A natural-freeze rink at Woods Ranch. The rink's history mentions harsh weather and a long drive, and says players kept coming anyway.

KJ's Ice Barn is the fourth stop. In 2024, St George News reported on a construction-site visit by the Fain family. Plans called for a full-size 185-by-85-foot sheet installed by Everything Ice, a Pittsburgh company. SUU News announced a grand opening for Oct. 4, 2024, with the Iron County Yeti, vendors, dancing and live music. It called KJ's the first ice rink and hockey facility in Southern Utah in more than four years.

That four-year gap is the stretch between the Woods Ranch season and the new building. Anyone in Enoch who wanted to skate during those years had to wait. A permanent building with a booking calendar changes what a family can plan for.

What a Week on the Ice Costs

The prices are low enough that skating can be a weekly thing. These are the rates on the rink's homepage and program pages:

• Public skate: $6, plus $2 for skate rental
• Freestyle and figure skating ice: $6
• Stick N Puck: $10, or $5 for the youth session
• Skate sharpening: $10

For a family of four renting skates, one public session comes to $32. If you own skates, a $10 sharpening pays for itself within a few visits. The public skate page also lists punch passes, family passes and annual passes. Ask at the front desk for current pass pricing.

The Learn to Skate program follows the same idea. Each registration includes six weekly classes and six public-skate passes, so the lessons and the open skating go together. The current session runs Oct. 12 through Nov. 16, 2026, so this round is in its final days. Families thinking about lessons can watch the Learn to Skate page for the next session.

Friday, Nov. 13, From First Skate to Puck Drop

Friday, Nov. 13, is the busiest day on the rink's current calendar, and you can do most of it in one trip.

Stick N Puck is also on the calendar on Nov. 13 and again on Sunday, Nov. 15. The Yeti play the Ghost Riders again on Saturday, Nov. 14, also at 7 p.m. The Elite Prospects listing shows both start times as 9 p.m. Eastern.

The Iron County Yeti are a junior team in the USPHL Premier league, and KJ's is their home rink. Single-game tickets are $10 general admission, $8 for students with ID and $5 for children 10 and under. Kids who wear a jersey get in free. So a family that skated in the afternoon can come back for the game for about the same cost again, or less if the kids wear their jerseys.

The Games That Cost Nothing to Watch

The Yeti are the only team at KJ's that charges admission. The rink lists two home teams: the Yeti and Southern Utah Independent. Southern Utah Independent is a high school team that isn't tied to any one school, and the rink says its games are free to watch. Adult league games are free to watch too. Southern Utah Independent's schedule is on its booking page.

Underneath those teams is the youth program that started back at the Dixie Igloo. Southern Utah YETI, the youth hockey organization based at KJ's, groups players by age from youth divisions up to high school. Its 2026–27 youth house league started Nov. 2 and runs through Mar. 13, 2027. That's a full winter season on one sheet of ice, something the Aquatic Center and Woods Ranch rinks could never promise.

For players who don't want a league, the rink also has drop-in hockey, described as informal open play with no league attached.

The Barn Also Has a Gym and a Pickleball Court

A permanent building can offer things a seasonal rink couldn't, and KJ's has two that have nothing to do with ice. The KJ's Ice Barn Gym costs $5 a day, $30 a month or $300 a year. The indoor pickleball court rents for $20 an hour. Split four ways, an hour of indoor pickleball costs $5 a person, a little less than a public skate session.

If your kids have a 6 p.m. practice, you can use the gym or the pickleball court while you wait.

Hours and How to Check the Calendar

The rink's Locations page lists these hours:

• Monday and Wednesday: 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
• Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Friday: 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
• Sunday: 10 a.m. to 6:45 p.m.

Being open doesn't mean public skate is running. Hockey, lessons and rentals share the same sheet, and public sessions go on the online calendar as they're scheduled. The most reliable habit is to check the calendar early each week, or call the front desk at (435) 691-8015 before you load up the car.

Holiday guests arriving later this month? A $6 skate in Enoch fits easily into a visit that also includes Cedar City's Downtown Lighting Ceremony on Nov. 28. That event runs from noon to 9 p.m. at 10 N Main St., and the lights come on at 6 p.m.

At The Christensen Team, we've watched Enoch add more of the everyday places that make a town easier to live in, and a year-round rink is one of them. If friends or family are thinking about a move to Iron County and want to know what winter is like here, we're happy to talk about the rink on Pinnacle Way along with everything else that fills an Enoch weekend.