Frequently asked questions

Bee Cave Ice is a planned year-round indoor ice complex for the southwest Austin submarket - centered on a twin-sheet layout (regulation primary rink plus practice sheet), with locker rooms, dryland training, and community-oriented gathering space.

The project is in an early feasibility and community-interest stage. This website exists to explain the regional case, capture program demand, and build relationships with partners and officials, not to sell ice time that does not exist yet.

We are focused on the Bee Cave / Lake Travis growth corridor in southwest Austin - the area where families already live but lack permanent year-round ice west, south, or southwest of downtown.

A specific site, parcel, or address is not published on this website. Site selection depends on feasibility work, municipal coordination, and financing. We will share milestones through the interest list when there is something concrete to announce.

There is no opening date we can responsibly publish today. Financing, site control, design, permitting, and operating-partner alignment all sit ahead of a groundbreaking timeline.

Join the interest list for the programs you care about. We send updates when milestones warrant them, not a weekly drip of speculation.

No. Bee Cave Ice is an early-stage concept in feasibility evaluation. Construction has not started, and nothing on this site should be read as a commitment that financing is closed or a facility is under contract.

Statements about scale, programming, and partnerships are projections and may change as the work matures.

Add your email on the homepage, any program page, or the contact form. Optional checkboxes help us understand demand for youth hockey, high school hockey, adult play, skating, curling, and more.

Read project updates when we publish milestones worth sharing. You can also follow the social links in the site footer. We aim for a respectful cadence - updates when something real changes, not filler.

We are planning year-round programming across:

• Youth hockey: house, travel, and Learn-to-Play pathways
• High school hockey: varsity and club pathways for student-athletes
• Learn to Skate: ages 3+ and adults
• Adult hockey: leagues, drop-in, and pickup
• Figure skating: club, freestyle, and coaching
• Curling: social leagues and learn-to-curl nights

Tournament hosting, on-ice shows, and expanded social-hockey tracks are on the horizon as operations firm up. See the programs index for the full picture.

Registration is not open - there is no ice to sell yet. Use the form on any program page or the contact form to join the interest list for the lanes that matter to you.

That list helps us plan ice hours, staffing, and program mix with real demand behind it. It is not a waitlist with guaranteed roster spots or pricing.

Yes - that is the intent. Today, southwest Austin families who play house or travel hockey typically register through the Austin Metro Hockey Association (AMHA) and drive to north-metro rinks for ice time.

We plan to engage AMHA so that, when Bee Cave Ice opens, house leagues, travel teams, and Learn-to-Play onramps can plug into the association structure families already know. Affiliation details, ice allocation, and tryout calendars will follow as the facility and operating model are finalized.

Absolutely. We are planning curling as a social sport, not an Olympic audition. Learn-to-curl introductions, house teams you can join with friends, and league nights where the post-game hang matters as much as the scoreboard are all part of the vision.

No experience required - equipment and coaching for newcomers are part of the plan. League formats and fees will be published when operations are ready.

Yes. The adult hockey page covers tiered league play, beer league, drop-in, and pickup interest for southwest Austin - so grown-up hockey does not require a cross-town commute every week.

Signal interest on the adult hockey page or the contact form.

The Austin metro has grown south and west, but permanent year-round ice did not grow with it. The entire metro has only a handful of indoor sheets, concentrated north and east of downtown - a 30–50 minute drive from Bee Cave, Lost Creek, Barton Creek, Lakeway, and much of the Lake Travis corridor.

A twin-sheet complex in the Bee Cave / RM 620 / Hwy 71 band closes that distance for families across the Westlake / 360 corridor, Steiner Ranch, and southwest Austin, not just one suburb. Read the fuller case on Vision.

Yes. The primary area is a west-and-southwest arc around a planned Bee Cave / Lake Travis anchor, not a single suburb.

Lake Travis & Bee Cave hub: Bee Cave, Lakeway, The Hills, Hudson Bend, Rough Hollow, Serene Hills, Briarcliff, Spicewood.

Westlake & Loop 360 corridor: West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Lost Creek, Barton Creek, Westlake, Rob Roy, Davenport, Cuernavaca.

RM 620 & Steiner Ranch: Steiner Ranch, River Place, Four Points, Lake Point.

Southwest Austin: Oak Hill, Circle C Ranch, Shady Hollow, Sunset Valley.

Hill Country south: Dripping Springs, Belterra, Driftwood, Bear Creek.

If your address is along RM 620, Bee Caves Road, Loop 360, or US 290 in this band, you are likely in the same commute story even if your subdivision is not named above. See the full regional breakdown on Vision.

The southwest Austin area is organized around a Bee Cave / Hwy 71 / RM 620 anchor and spans roughly 200,000–225,000 people across Lake Travis ISD, Eanes ISD, and Dripping Springs ISD.

On the map it includes:

• Westlake & 360: West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Lost Creek, Barton Creek, Westlake, Rob Roy, Davenport
• Lake Travis west: Bee Cave, Lakeway, The Hills, Hudson Bend, Steiner Ranch, Spicewood
• Southwest Austin: Oak Hill, Circle C, Shady Hollow
• Hill Country south: Dripping Springs, Belterra, Driftwood

For most addresses in that band, a local rink is 15–30 minutes instead of 30–50 minutes north for ice today. The Vision page lists submarkets in more detail.

Not yet. The Bee Cave Ice Foundation is a planned 501(c)(3) public charity in formation. It is not currently recognized by the IRS, and donations are not being accepted on this website.

Use the Foundation page to express interest in supporting the mission. Someone from the team will follow up personally when the entity is ready to receive contributions.

The Foundation is intended to fund youth access, scholarships, adaptive skating programs, and other public-benefit elements of the complex - so ice is not only for families who can easily afford long commutes and full freight fees.

Specific donor tiers, benefits, and quid-pro-quo calibrations will be announced only after IRS recognition and non-profit counsel sign-off.

Yes. Bee Cave Ice is a multi-stakeholder project. We are building relationships with organizations that operate multi-sheet community facilities, commercial sponsors interested in naming and partnership, Foundation supporters, and professionals who may contribute expertise.

Start on the Partners page - operating-partner conversations use a separate lane from sponsor inquiries on the contact form.

No. Nothing on this site constitutes an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, any security.

Professional inquiries may include accredited individuals exploring how they might contribute, but submissions receive non-solicitation language where securities rules apply. Any future capital formation would be handled privately with counsel, not marketed through this public website.

Use the governmental forms on the city / county page or schools page. Those routes pre-tag your inquiry so we can schedule a briefing on regional data, economic impact framing, and coordination models, without claiming a partnership with any specific municipality or district.

You can also use the contact form and include your role and organization in the message.