You can spot the error made by Google Map. Or was it under same management as the casino/gas station/travel center? The rink was the white roof you can see on the right side of the huge travel center.
It is the Blue building with actually Grey roof (appeared white in top photo). It is now bowling alley when this was taken by Google.
Buffalo Lake Roller Rink, 46112 Hwy 10 , Sisseton, South Dakota
aka Bufflo Lake District Roller
Buffalo Lake Roller Rink was quite outside of the town, Sisston. It was on Main Street though. The map I was trying to find the rink pointed out to this huge gas station in the corner. The location was wrong. From my observation step by step from vehicle level view. It was next door. Pretty much back from the Highway 10. The address is correct but the pin on the map was wrong.
The rink name was also known as Buffalo Lake District Roller.
Unfortunately, there is no information online about this rink at all. All pointed to the bowling alley. Yelp reported it was closed. My resources from old list of rinks (see link page) listed this rink but no info.
However, I was able only see on Map Google. It showed a very long warehouse like. It was steel sheet metal Gable roofed building that was a rink. Original color I am not sure but the bowling alley called The Buffalo Lanes was, yes, was in operations but they are closed as well. The bowling alley's website copyrighted in 2014, no updates. But according to Facebook, the grand opening for the Buffalo Lanes was Saturday September 3rd, 2016. It was a conflicting date shown then.
What was interesting and odd that they had advertising about skates on the Buffalo Lanes website talking about Skates and fireworks. Yes, they sold fireworks at the rink.. er, the lanes.
But it had no year on that advertisement. They even had website saying "thebuffalolanes.com" and it comes to saying there is no website. The actual bowling lanes' website is still operational as...
https://thebuffalolanes.wixsite.com/thebuffalolanes
Bit shoddy I think. Okay....
Clearly the Buffalo Lake Roller Rink must have closed between 2014 and 2016 (based on the website and someone commented in Facebook). I have no dates of open and closed.
Anyone know what happened to this place.. History such as open and closed, pictures of rink? Truly a mystery because if they just closed a merely few years back, it should have photographs on line captured by spiders and forever stays online.
Spiders--a technical term means computers read and capture words, photographs, everything. So, anything you say could be used against you if you do something wrong. Its not the same as government spying.
One thing, I just discovered there IS another Facebook page regarding to The Buffalo Lanes. It is still operational as bowling alley. (USBC prefer that to be called "Bowling house" as they told me last year in 2018 when USBC was in Syracuse, NY but we all prefer bowling alley, right?)
Back to subject, this was very unusual about this rink. That is all I can say.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: N/A Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Type of Building: Warehouse-like, sheet metal-steel.
Roof: Gable
Operated: ? to c. 2014 to 2016.
Reason for Closure: Unknown.
Wanted: Information regarding photos of the rink! Both interior and exterior, exact dates of open and closed, why out of business and change name to The Buffalo Lanes.
Sources: Yelp, Facebook (The Buffalo Lanes),
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aka Bufflo Lake District Roller
Buffalo Lake Roller Rink was quite outside of the town, Sisston. It was on Main Street though. The map I was trying to find the rink pointed out to this huge gas station in the corner. The location was wrong. From my observation step by step from vehicle level view. It was next door. Pretty much back from the Highway 10. The address is correct but the pin on the map was wrong.
The rink name was also known as Buffalo Lake District Roller.
Unfortunately, there is no information online about this rink at all. All pointed to the bowling alley. Yelp reported it was closed. My resources from old list of rinks (see link page) listed this rink but no info.
However, I was able only see on Map Google. It showed a very long warehouse like. It was steel sheet metal Gable roofed building that was a rink. Original color I am not sure but the bowling alley called The Buffalo Lanes was, yes, was in operations but they are closed as well. The bowling alley's website copyrighted in 2014, no updates. But according to Facebook, the grand opening for the Buffalo Lanes was Saturday September 3rd, 2016. It was a conflicting date shown then.
What was interesting and odd that they had advertising about skates on the Buffalo Lanes website talking about Skates and fireworks. Yes, they sold fireworks at the rink.. er, the lanes.
But it had no year on that advertisement. They even had website saying "thebuffalolanes.com" and it comes to saying there is no website. The actual bowling lanes' website is still operational as...
https://thebuffalolanes.wixsite.com/thebuffalolanes
Bit shoddy I think. Okay....
Clearly the Buffalo Lake Roller Rink must have closed between 2014 and 2016 (based on the website and someone commented in Facebook). I have no dates of open and closed.
Anyone know what happened to this place.. History such as open and closed, pictures of rink? Truly a mystery because if they just closed a merely few years back, it should have photographs on line captured by spiders and forever stays online.
Spiders--a technical term means computers read and capture words, photographs, everything. So, anything you say could be used against you if you do something wrong. Its not the same as government spying.
One thing, I just discovered there IS another Facebook page regarding to The Buffalo Lanes. It is still operational as bowling alley. (USBC prefer that to be called "Bowling house" as they told me last year in 2018 when USBC was in Syracuse, NY but we all prefer bowling alley, right?)
Back to subject, this was very unusual about this rink. That is all I can say.
Rink Size: N/A Floor: N/A Floor Layout: N/A
Building Size: N/A Built: N/A Type of Building: Warehouse-like, sheet metal-steel.
Roof: Gable
Operated: ? to c. 2014 to 2016.
Reason for Closure: Unknown.
Wanted: Information regarding photos of the rink! Both interior and exterior, exact dates of open and closed, why out of business and change name to The Buffalo Lanes.
Sources: Yelp, Facebook (The Buffalo Lanes),
© 2019 Dead Rinks. All Rights Reserved.