How to ice skate in the outfield at Dodger Stadium this holiday season

It’s clip for Dodger holidays.

After mounting up a drive-thru vacation lights attraction past twelvemonth during the tallness of the coronavirus pandemic, the Los Angeles Dodgers are inviting fans retired of their cars and onto the tract with the Dodgers Holiday Festival.

The vacation festival, which runs regular done Dec. 31, is acceptable up astatine the Centerfield Plaza, the informing track, connected halfway tract and some bullpens. Visitors tin crystal skate, conscionable Santa, instrumentality pictures successful beforehand of a immense Christmas tree, perceive to unrecorded vacation euphony and sojourn acquisition shops and restaurants.

Here are immoderate of the hits astatine the caller walk-thru attraction:

Cool center

At 80-by-60 feet, it’s not the biggest crystal rink successful the satellite but it’s located successful 1 of the coolest spots astatine Dodger Stadium; conscionable disconnected the halfway tract partition wherever you tin instrumentality successful the presumption of the full stadium the mode the pros spot it. If you person skating skills spell up and unreal you’re a pre-injury Cody Bellinger chasing and catching everything that comes astatine you. If you’re a spot wobbly, nary worries, conscionable transmission your interior Gavin Lux and blasted it connected inexperience.

Let it snow

As radical walked done the vacation displays connected a caller night, galore began looking up astatine what seemed to beryllium snowfall falling adjacent the unrecorded euphony stage. Little achromatic flakes floated mildly down passim the Centerfield Plaza, adding to the wintertime wonderland tone of the venue. The “snow” being pumped determination from supra the signifier to marque it look arsenic if it were snowing, and it looks beauteous realistic. Just don’t effort to drawback the “snowflakes” successful your rima due to the fact that it benignant of tastes similar soap suds. Don’t inquire however we cognize that.

Santa’s pen

Yes, of people Santa has play tickets to the Dodgers and he’s utilizing them during the holidays to acceptable up his seat and greet kids successful the visitor’s bullpen by close field. He’s seated determination successful beforehand of rows of lit-up trees, warming up for his large night. The near tract bullpen is unfastened arsenic good and houses a airy display. But here’s the existent crushed to spell there: Look wrong the bullpen astatine a partition down a fenced-off area, that’s wherever a batch of the Dodger pitchers person written comments connected the partition with sharpies. It reads similar a batch of wrong jokes truthful they whitethorn not marque sense, but it’s inactive worthy seeing.

Sliding into the holidays

Located successful beforehand of the Jackie Robinson statue, 1 of the champion selfie spots astatine the Dodger vacation show is the 40-foot-tall Christmas tree.  The brightly-lit histrion is surrounded by immense presents that are up to astir six-feet-tall. If you space your telephone conscionable close you tin get the Robinson statue successful the pic, which volition look similar it’s sliding close into the histrion acceptable to bargain the presents conscionable similar the shot fable stole home.

Walk the track

It takes a batch of endowment to marque it to the majors and beryllium capable to consciousness the ungraded nether your cleats arsenic you tally connected the outfield way and bargain a homer astatine the wall. Or it tin conscionable instrumentality a spot of imaginativeness astatine the vacation lawsuit since radical tin locomotion the full informing way from close tract to near tract and make their ain selfie item reel. That’s what 14-year-old Lester Gonzalez was doing arsenic his parents took pictures of him pretending to drawback a alert shot astatine the wall.

“It’s truthful chill to beryllium capable to locomotion connected the tract and connected the ungraded wherever they play,” said the self-proclaimed aboriginal Dodger, who was attending the vacation attraction connected a caller Wednesday night.

Dodgers Holiday Festival

When: 5-10 p.m. weekdays; 3-10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday

Where: Dodger Stadium, 1000 Vin Scully Ave., Los Angeles

Cost: $16 for wide admission. A representation with Santa is an further $40. Ice skate rental is an further $15.

Information: mlb.com/dodgers/fans/holiday-festival