The show was created in 1937 and takes place on Saturday night throughout the summer, featuring the Sun Valley on Ice cast with invited national and international guest stars.
Sun Valley Lodge was specifically designed to display its outdoor ice rink with Sun Valley Resort founder Averell Harriman asking architect Gilbert Stanley Underwood to make the rink a focus.
[3] The well-known outdoor rink has appeared in the Sonia Henie movie Sun Valley Serenade (1941), an episode of Lucille Ball's I Love Lucy, and has played host to numerous world class skaters throughout the years.
[4] In 2022, Sun Valley Resort started building a new refrigeration system after an electrical failure before the final show of the summer starring Jason Brown and Alysa Liu.
Peppe, a national champion and Olympic competitor from New York, headlined the first edition of the show and was one of the early head skating instructors at Sun Valley.