North Dakota
North Dakota offers an experience that blends wide-open landscapes with a refreshingly authentic Midwest atmosphere. With quality facilities spread across its cities and towns, paired with endless natural space ideal for outdoor competition, the state easily accommodates everything from youth tournaments and collegiate athletics to endurance events and recreational competitions. Its accessible venues, low congestion, and welcoming host communities make planning and participation straightforward, while the surrounding scenery adds a distinctive sense of place that sets events apart.
North Dakota
Fargo has hosted USA Wrestling's Cadet/Junior National Championships. Visit Fargo-Moorhead
North Dakota offers an experience that blends wide-open landscapes with a refreshingly authentic Midwest atmosphere. With quality facilities spread across its cities and towns, paired with endless natural space ideal for outdoor competition, the state easily accommodates everything from youth tournaments and collegiate athletics to endurance events and recreational competitions. Its accessible venues, low congestion, and welcoming host communities make planning and participation straightforward, while the surrounding scenery adds a distinctive sense of place that sets events apart.
In Bismarck, athletes and planners can have the best of both worlds: metropolitan amenities along with wide-open spaces and a friendly hometown atmosphere.
Hotel Rooms: 3,500Hotel tax rate: 11 percent or 11.5 percent, depending on location
Major Facilities:
- BSC Aquatic & Wellness Center houses an eight-lane, 50-meter pool and dive well
- Mandan Aquatic Center houses an eight-lane, 50-meter pool and dive well
- MDU Resources Community Bowl is a 6,000-seat venue that includes a field for football and soccer, natural grass fields, a nine-lane track, and more
- VFW Sports Center recently underwent an expansion and renovation, and now features three sheets of ice
- Capital Ice Complex features two sheets of ice
Bismarck-Mandan CVB, NoBoundariesND.com.
Fargo offers the ideal combination of first-class sports facilities, affordability, easy accessibility, and authentic hospitality. Located on the border of North Dakota and Minnesota, the metro is within 3.5 hours driving from major markets like Minneapolis-St. Paul, Winnipeg, and Sioux Falls while also served by Hector International Airport with direct flights to major hubs like Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and more.
Hotel Rooms: 5,960Hotel tax rate: ranges from 13.75 percent to 14 percent
Major Facilities:
- Fargo Parks Sports Center is a new multipurpose indoor venue with an indoor NCAA soccer field, two sheets of ice, six pickleball courts, and eight hardwood courts
- FARGODOME is a multipurpose venue with an 80,000-square-foot arena floor
- Hulbert Aquatic Center houses a 10-lane pool
- North Softball Complex boasts 18 fields
- Scheels Arena is a multipurpose venue, with two hockey rinks
Fargo-Moorhead Athletic Commission, fargomoorhead.org.
Grand Forks is one of the largest cities in the state, situated in eastern North Dakota. Besides its great facilities, what really sets Grand Forks apart from other communities is the quality of the complimentary services the city offers to event organizers.
Hotel Rooms: 2,226Hotel tax rate: 10 percent
Major Facilities:
- Albrecht Field is a new softball field that features more than 500 seats
- Ralph Engelstad Arena is a 40,000-square-foot arena that hosts hockey and other ice events and basketball
- Alerus Center is a 100,000-square-foot multipurpose venue
- Betty Engelstad Sioux Center is a multipurpose venue with four basketball and volleyball courts
- ICON Sports Center features two USA Hockey-sanctioned rinks and seating for 500 per rink
- The Frederick “Fritz” D. Pollard Jr. Athletic Center includes a 100-yard artificial turf field and a 300-meter eight-lane track
- Coming soon: Altru Sports Complex will be a 215,000-square-foot facility with a 50-meter indoor competition pool, 25-yard instructional pool, full-size soccer and football turf, and eight pickleball courts
Greater Grand Forks CVB, visitgrandforks.com.
Located in central North Dakota, Minot offers the convenience of a regional sports hub with the charm of a community known for hospitality, family-friendly attractions, and year-round events. With venues for hockey, baseball, softball, basketball, soccer, wrestling, and more, the Magic City makes it easy for teams, families, and fans to turn a tournament trip into a memorable visit.
Hotel Rooms: 2,500Hotel tax rate: 10.5 percent
Major Facilities:
- Maysa Arena offers three ice rinks
- Minot State University Dome is a multipurpose indoor venue with seating for up to 10,000 and an eight-lane indoor track
- Minot Municipal Auditorium is a 13,200 square-foot multipurpose indoor facility
- Corbet Field is a 950-seat ballpark
- All Seasons Arena is a 25,000-plus-square-foot arena at the North Dakota State Fairgrounds, used for any type of event
The North Dakota State Fair Center houses 250,000 square feet of space and hosts sports such as hockey, curling, wrestling, and equestrian.
Contact:Visit Minot, visitminot.org.
Watford City is centrally located near premier western North Dakota attractions, including Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Fort Union National Historic Site. For sports, the city offers two large indoor facilities and several fields.
Hotel Rooms: 800Hotel tax rate: 9.5 percent
Major Facilities:
- Rough Rider Center is a multifaceted facility offering two sheets of ice, a field house, an arena, an aquatic center, along with space for gymnastics and outdoor turf baseball and football field in partnership with Watford City High School
- McKenzie County Ag Expo facility includes 212 acres of land with a 112,000 square foot building
- McKenzie County Athletic Park has five softball diamonds and two soccer/football fields
- American Legion Baseball Field offers a multiuse baseball field
- Koeser Field features a Cal-Ripken baseball field/girls fastpitch softball field
The North Dakota State Fair Center houses 250,000 square feet of space and hosts sports such as hockey, curling, wrestling, and equestrian.
Contact:Visit Watford City, visitwatfordcity.com