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National Sports Center

National Sports Center

The World’s Largest Amateur Sports Facility

Facility Highlights

  • 54 multi-purpose outdoor athletic fields with a combination of natural grass and turf with lights on select fields
  • 8 indoor ice rinks (4 NHL-size & 4 Olympic-size rinks)
  • Victory Links: 18-hole PGA Tour-designed golf course with 6 tee boxes on each hole
  • 10,000 seat multi-purpose stadium with turf
  • 58,000 square ft Sports Hall
  • 36,000 square ft Welcome Center
  • 18,000 square ft Sport Expo Center
  • On-site concessions & catering services
  • 3,800 vehicle parking on-site
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156 Full-Size Multi-Sport Fields

156 Full-Size Multi-Sport Fields

Twin Cities Gateway is your major playing field destination for soccer, football, lacrosse, ultimate, rugby, Australian football and other major field events. The National Sports Center is the largest soccer complex in the World with 56 full sized fields. Included in these fields is a stadium complex with lights and capacity up to 7,000 spectators, four turfed fields and six lighted fields. Fields can be combined to host rugby and Australian Football events. The Coon Rapids has 6 full sized fields that are all lighted with major concession building. The Twin Cities Gateway has a wide variety of fields that will meet your needs, whether its turf or natural grass, lighted fields, scoreboards, stadiums etc…

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162 Ball Fields

162 Ball Fields

The Twin Cities Gateway is the country’s leader in ball diamond facilities. Quantity is one point, but the quality of our facilities is second to none as we have many wheel complexes, Little League specific complexes, a major girls Fast Pitch complex, Stadium fields and much more. We have 162 ball fields in our nine city area. We have nine major wheel complexes with four fields or more on one site. No matter the age, division or gender of your event, the Twin Cities Gateway has the complex and fields for your tournament. No ball tournament is too big or too small to have in the Twin Cities Gateway.

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16 Indoor Hockey Rinks

16 Indoor Hockey Rinks

with 8 under 1 roof

The Twin Cities Gateway is the World’s leader in ice arenas and outdoor rinks. Total count of hockey rinks in our area is 43. We have 15 indoor rinks with 8 located under one roof (Super Rink) and two other sites with double rinks indoors. We have an indoor rink side by side to a state of the art outdoor refrigerated rink (Coon Rapids). Ten rinks (Super Rink and Fogerty) are less than 2 miles away from each other. Quantity is one point, but the quality of our facilities is second to none as our indoor rinks have cafes, bars and restaurants located inside their facilities to please the athlete and the fan.

We also have one of the world’s premier curling facilities at Four Seasons Curling Club that has 6 ends and has been home to the USA Olympic Curling teams.

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5 Bowling Complexes

5 Bowling Complexes

with 142 lanes

Twin Cities Gateway has five outstanding bowling facilities with 142 lanes in total. All of our bowling alleys have a bar and restaurant on site and a majority have a pro shop, meeting rooms and/or banquet facility for your convenience. Two of our facilities, Blainebrook and Bowlero, are a mile apart with 60 lanes total.

  • Bowlero – Blaine – 38 Lanes
  • Mermaid Entertainment Center – Mounds View – 32 lanes
  • Blainebrook – Blaine – 24 Lanes
  • Ham Lake Lanes – 24 Lanes
  • Classic Bowl – Coon Rapids – 24 Lanes
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87 Tennis Courts

87 Tennis Courts

22 lighted

19 Sand Volleyball Courts

19 Sand Volleyball Courts

 
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