Assiniboine River portion of skating trail closed for the season

With the weather heating up, part of the Red River Mutual Trail is closed for the season.

The Forks has shut down the entire Assiniboine River portion, which ran from The Forks to Arlington Street.

As long as conditions allow, the Red River portion will stay open to Churchill Drive.

“The conditions on the Assiniboine are not good due to outflows of water and the access points are no longer in great shape so it’s time to close that part for everyone’s safety,” Paul Jordan, Chief Executive Officer of The Forks said in a release.

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“We will no longer be maintaining the Assiniboine and are in the process of removing any access points.”

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The Port area is still open as are on-land trails but skating conditions are diminishing quickly with temperatures creeping above zero.

The canopy rink has also been shut down.

The trail has already been open longer than ever before, opening Dec. 22 and lasting 71 days and counting. That’s in stark contrast to last year, when the trail was only open for a total 33 days.

The trail also stretched longer than it ever had before: if you started at Arlington and skated to the St. Vital Bridge, you would have gone 10 km, breaking the previous record set in 2009.