Meeting & Event Planning:
Sports Venues
Grand sports. Grand events. Grand arenas. Greater Grand Forks.
We have fun all year long-on the links or in the rinks, hunting or fishing, swimming or softball, indoors and out. Our exceptional facilities make us an ideal host for large regional, national and international sporting events:
- The Ralph Engelstad Arena, one of the finest hockey facilities in the world, also able to host shows, ice events, concerts and basketball;
- The Betty Engelstad Sioux Center, a 50,000-square-foot expansion to Ralph Engelstad Arena, houses four regulation size practice volleyball and basketball courts, all of which can be converted into one main game court;
- The state-of-the-art Alerus Center with football, soccer fields, basketball court, conference center and concert venue;
- King's Walk, a challenging new Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course;
- Other sports facilities located in Grand Forks and East Grand Forks or on the campus of the University of North Dakota, home to championship teams in basketball, hockey, football, swimming and diving.
Here's just a sample of events we've hosted or will be hosting:
- 2008 Men's World Curling Championship
- 2006 NCAA Men's Division I Hockey West Regional Hockey Championship
- 2005 NCAA Men's Division II Elite 8 Basketball Championship
- 2005 International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship
- 2005 United States Hockey League All Star Game
- 2005 Men's Division II Elite 8 Basketball Championship
- 2005 Amateur Softball Association Girls 16 & Under Slowpitch Championship
- 2003 Midwest Synchronized Team Skating Championship
- 2003 WCHA Women's Final Five
- 2003 Men's Jr. Olympic Regional Gymnastics Tournament
- 2004 USA Curling National Championships
- Numerous NCAA National and Regional Swimming and Diving Meets
4251 Gateway Drive • Grand Forks, ND 58203 • Toll-Free: 800-866-4566 or Local: 701-746-0444