{"id":931,"date":"2021-11-11T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=931"},"modified":"2022-01-31T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T15:11:39","slug":"blue-cross-river-rink-winterfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Blue Cross River Rink Winterfest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Olivia George<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 27 seasons, Winterfest has been&nbsp;Philadelphia&#8217;s&nbsp;favorite winter tradition on the Philly Waterfront, inviting visitors for a chance to indulge in flights of fancy&nbsp;under&nbsp;the sparkling lights&nbsp;at a winter wonderland with spectacular views&nbsp;of the Delaware River, complete with comforting warming cabins,&nbsp;physically distanced&nbsp;fire pit stations, games for the&nbsp;young and young-at-heart, delicious food and refreshing drinks, the signature holiday tree,&nbsp;and of course skating.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now, Blue Cross River Rink is about five hours and 5 minutes away&nbsp;from Armstrong County&nbsp;so if any&nbsp;of these activities seem&nbsp;interesting,&nbsp;it may be worth the drive.&nbsp;Winterfest is a top destination for anyone looking for safe family fun. Blue cross River rink is open November&nbsp;27th to March 7<sup>th<\/sup>. This season at Winterfest keeps the fun and games going with the boardwalk games and Ferris Wheel that visitors have come to&nbsp;love&nbsp;during&nbsp;Summerfest.&nbsp;Show off&nbsp;one&#8217;s&nbsp;skills at the basketball toss, take aim at balloon darts, and try&nbsp;one&#8217;s luck&nbsp;at the balloon water race before hopping&nbsp;on the Ferris wheel&nbsp;for sky-high views of the waterfront and&nbsp;Philadelphia&nbsp;Skyline.&nbsp;Admission to the rink is $5 and on-site skate rentals are&nbsp;available&nbsp;for&nbsp;$10. After a few laps on the river rink, warm up at the open-air lodge, where winter cocktails and comfort food from&nbsp;Chickie\u2019s and Pete\u2019s are on the menu. A host greets and seats all guests, and&nbsp;indoor&nbsp;tables&nbsp;are&nbsp;available&nbsp;for parties&nbsp;up to four people from the same household. Outdoor concessions are&nbsp;available&nbsp;for those&nbsp;who like to take in the sites&nbsp;and the crisp winter air with their meal. As a part of updated measures for 2021, all food, hot cocoa, cider, and other goodies can be enjoyed in the designated dining area, where tables are spaced six feet apart.&nbsp; Two students,&nbsp;<strong>Bryant&nbsp;Pampeno<\/strong>&nbsp;and<strong>&nbsp;Mayson Kelly<\/strong>&nbsp;explained that they have never&nbsp;heard of&nbsp;Blue Cross River rink Winterfest but were highly interested in attending the&nbsp;event this year. Hopefully, this&nbsp;winter fun event seems interesting to you and may have&nbsp;you&nbsp;thinking&nbsp;about going.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olivia George For 27 seasons, Winterfest has been&nbsp;Philadelphia&#8217;s&nbsp;favorite winter tradition on the Philly Waterfront,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenapetechtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}