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==Parks and recreation== [[Image:Glens Falls 005.jpg|thumb|upright|City Park]] [[Image:Crandall Park fountain Glens Falls.JPG|thumb|Crandall Park from US Route 9]] City Park is located in the city's business district and contains the public library. Crandall Park has a lowland pond, war monuments and recreation facilities bordering the city's Coles' Woods International Ski Trail system [[Glens Falls Civic Center]]<ref>[http://www.glensfallscc.com Glens Falls Civic Center website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708054630/http://www.glensfallscc.com/ |date=July 8, 2017 }}, glensfallscc.com; accessed May 21, 2017.</ref> opened in 1979 and hosts sports and entertainment events in downtown Glens Falls; it includes an arena for sporting events, concerts, family activities, dance, theater and trade shows as well as banquet facilities. The [[Adirondack Thunder]] and [[Adirondack Junior Thunder]] play here. The facility was renamed [[Cool Insuring Arena]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://poststar.com/news/local/cool-insuring-buys-naming-rights-to-civic-center/article_67985cf0-912c-5c98-9dd7-cc6cb27ab0c7.html |title=Cool Insuring buys naming rights to Civic Center |newspaper=[[The Post-Star]] |date=July 11, 2017 |access-date=October 13, 2017 |archive-date=February 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212104855/https://poststar.com/news/local/cool-insuring-buys-naming-rights-to-civic-center/article_67985cf0-912c-5c98-9dd7-cc6cb27ab0c7.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://poststar.com/news/local/name-comes-off-former-glens-falls-civic-center/article_0a86b1de-99a2-5170-92c7-ba0861c544aa.html |title=Name comes off former Glens Falls Civic Center |newspaper=[[The Post-Star]] |date=October 2, 2017 |access-date=October 13, 2017 |archive-date=June 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190618040909/https://poststar.com/news/local/name-comes-off-former-glens-falls-civic-center/article_0a86b1de-99a2-5170-92c7-ba0861c544aa.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Past teams include the [[Adirondack Wildcats]] basketball team of the [[United States Basketball League|USBL]], and the one year (1994) [[roller hockey]] franchise [[Empire State Cobras]], as well as the ice hockey teams [[Adirondack Flames]], [[Adirondack Frostbite]], [[Adirondack Phantoms]], and the [[Adirondack Red Wings]]. East Field is home to the Glens Falls Dragons, of the [[Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League]]; the Greenjackets semi-pro football team, the second oldest football team in America formed in 1928; and the Glens Falls High School Indians. It was home to the [[Glens Falls White Sox]] and [[Glens Falls Tigers]] of the [[Eastern League (1938–2020)|Eastern League]], the Glens Falls Redbirds of the [[New York–Penn League]] and the [[Adirondack Lumberjacks]] of the Northeast League/Northern League East.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}}
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