Leigh B.
Yelp
I'd been looking for a place to run indoors during the winter months with my friend who lives in St Louis Park. Using my Google-Fu, I stumbled upon the Plymouth Creek Center Fieldhouse. It turned out to meet our needs fantastically and I look forward to coming back several more times to get my jog on until spring arrives.
From about November 1 through April, the Plymouth Creek Center inflates their soccer dome to provide an indoor space for several sports. Around the perimeter of their 2 fields is a walking/jogging track, and the Center offers free use of this track to the public during many of its open hours. Be sure to go on their website (link at the top of this page) and look at the walk/jog schedule before you go, since they do close the track when they have sports rentals.
The track, like the rest of the domed area, is artificial turf. When the full track is open, it's 5.25 laps per mile. I'd estimate that the track proper is about 6 feet wide, but there's a bit of room on both sides as well. I'd say two people can walk/jog fairly comfortably next to each and leave room for a person to pass on the left.
As for the facility, the dome is heated, and the temperature inside ranges from 30-55 degrees F (depending on the outdoor temp). The warm air blowers are next to the track, though, so I found I was plenty warm. There were coat racks just inside the door to the dome, as well as some under the stairwell in the brick-and-mortar part of the fieldhouse. They had some coin-operated lockers ($0.25 to use), but that's all I could find. I just put my gym bag on the coat rack inside the dome so I could kind of keep and eye on it, and didn't have any trouble. They also have a nice water-bottle filling station next to the rest rooms, which I thought was super snazzy.
All in all, great facility. Great to see the City providing such a nice opportunity for residents (and others) to keep active during the frigid winter for free.