Media Contact
All media inquiries should be directed to:
Clare MacKay - Vice-President, Marketing and Communications
The Forks North Portage Partnership
200-350 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0C3
P: 204-987-4360
E: clare.mackay@tf-np.ca
Fact Sheets
IMAGE GALLERY
Over the years we’ve collected hundreds of images of the site and our signature events. These images have been made available for media or public to use when promoting The Forks.
If you are looking for specific images that you don’t see here, please contact us and we’ll do our best to fulfill your request.
High resolution versions of the images in the gallery are available by contacting:
Chelsea Thomson - Coordinator, Marketing and Communications
The Forks North Portage Partnership
200-350 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0C3
P: 204-987-4374
E: chelsea.thomson@tf-np.ca
Happy Trails to You… Until We Skate Again
The Forks, Winnipeg – After a fun-filled winter of family programming the Assiniboine Credit Union River Trail is being closed.
“We’ve done a full assessment and the trail conditions are really deteriorating – to the point that we have now closed the trail for the season.” says Paul Jordan, Chief Operating Officer at The Forks. “We had a good run, but it’s now time to stay off the river.”
Arctic Glacier Winter Park, which is contained on the site at The Forks, will remain open weather permitting for as long as possible. It includes 1.2 kilometres of skating trails, an Olympic-sized skating rink, the artificially cooled rink under the Canopy, toboggan run and snowboard hill.
The trail was open for 8 weeks and, on average, normally closes in early March.
Every year the ACURT will be different, as Mother Nature will continue dictating its distance and location. In 2008, the ACURT became the Guinness World record holder for the longest naturally frozen skating trail in the world, with 8.54km. It is maintained and programmed through collaboration between The Forks Renewal Corporation and Festival du Voyageur.
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