We’re open normal hours this Louis Riel Day! Plus this toque-wearing-bison-on-skates hoodie is $10 off today at The Forks Info Kiosk on the main floor. To avoid parking drama, download the Secunik app before you get here so you don’t have to wait in line at the metre, or better yet, plan to carpool, take the bus, or hop onto the Red Red River Mutual Trail and arrive via frozen river! ❄️

Some of today’s activities include horse-drawn wagon rides, Indigenous storytelling and bannock-making in the teepee, + Soul on Ice with DJs spinning tunes under the Canopy Rink! ⛸❄️

Update: as of 4:45PM, parking has re-opened. It will likely be busy all weekend - consider carpooling, parking off-site or taking the bus! It’s a busy beautiful day at The Forks + our parking lots are currently full - plan accordingly! If you’re planning to skate the Red River Mutual Trail, perhaps consider parking near one of the alternate access points + skating here! ⛸

10,000 metres is 10km - the entire length of the #RRMTrail. Canadian Olympic speed skater Ted-Jan Bloemen skated that distance in 12 MINUTES AND 39 SECONDS for the gold medal in Pyeongchang!🥇🇨🇦 ⛸ Check out Manitoba Speed Skating Association for #SpeedSkatingIsCanada on the #RRMTrail tomorrow!

There’s at least a million reasons to visit The Forks this weekend (maybe more!) - see some of them (including Festival du Voyageur’s 🧣 Rendez-vous on Ice, The Common’s 🍺🍷NEW wine + beer list, an Ice Castles MB ❄️ coupon code + more) here: #MeetMeAtTheForks

“Winter May seem long to a Winnipegger, but as histories go, as a life experience, as a set of personal mythologies embedded in a long string of years, our coldest, most beautiful season is heartbreakingly short, as sweet as life itself, a mere bedtime story remembered in the frosty etchings on a child’s windowpane. With the coming of spring, the sun obliterates the great narratives of our ice, and no matter how great the crystal obelisks, moments and other sturdy tributes we erect during the naive enchantment of winter, all are soon pulled down, each pulling its own shroud behind it, into the Dark Stupid Puddle.” ❄️ -Guy Madden, Warming Huts v.2018 invited Artist, Temple of Lost Things. 🎨 Kal Barteski

#WineWednesday anyone? This Valentine's day, we ❤️ Veronique Rivest's new wine selections at The Common.

If you’re in a panic because your Valentine 💕suggested a skate date ⛸ but you haven’t skated in 5+ years (or ever), READ THIS! It will help.

Festival du Voyageur begins this week🧣which means we’re rendez-vous-ing on the #RRMTrail! On Friday morning, be sure to grab breakfast 🥓🥞 on ice during your commute, pop in for a drink 🍻 and/or entertainment all weekend long, and catch the fashion show 💃🏼 on Sunday. #heho #MeetMeAtTheForks

Oh how we love RAW:almond. 💓 Check it:

Get that last minute Valentine's Day shopping in and this year, buy gifts for your Valentine (or yourself 😉) that don't suck. We've got your guide: https://goo.gl/CoHLfg

She’s here! Véronique Rivest Sommelière, is here to launch The Common’s new wine + beer menu. Here she is training up The Common staff on the ins + outs of the new list. 🍷🍺 #MeetMeAtTheForks