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Hotel rooms: 4,614
Coming soon: A new 215-room hotel
will open in early 2014.
Major facilities: The Lancaster Event
Center has over 400,000 square feet of
space spread out over five interconnected
buildings and specializes in rodeo and
equestrian events. The Abbott Sports
Complex, which sits on 100 acres
and boasts 60 acres of professionally
maintained sports fields, has 11 volleyball
courts, four basketball courts and one
turf field inside, along with an outdoor
championship field that seats 2,500.
Coming this summer: Pinnacle Bank
Arena is scheduled to open in August
with a seating capacity of 16,000.
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Contact: Lincoln CVB, See Ad
on this
www.lincoln.org.
page
North Platte
In the center of Nebraska—between
Omaha and Denver—is North Platte.
The city has hosted softball tournaments,
rodeos, baseball tournaments, volleyball
tournaments and more.
Hotel rooms: 1,500
Major facilities: North Platte offers
an 11-field softball complex, 10 soccer
fields, 15 basketball/volleyball courts,
two baseball fields, three 18-hole golf
courses, an equestrian arena, seven youth
baseball diamonds, and more.
Contact: North Platte/Lincoln
County Visitors Bureau,
www.visitnorthplatte.com.
Omaha
Home to more than 800,000 residents,
Omaha, in eastern Nebraska, became the
home of the NCAA Division I Baseball
College World Series in 1950.
Hotel rooms: 10,000+
Major facilities: TD Ameritrade
Park opened in the spring of 2011 and
is a 24,000-seat, multi-purpose stadium.
Werner Park, which also opened in 2011,
is a baseball park with 6,434 fixed seats
but can accommodate 9,023 people for
baseball games. Michael G. Morrison
Stadium is a 6,000-seat soccer-specific
stadium. Sapp Fieldhouse has a seating
capacity of 3,500 and typically hosts
volleyball, basketball, wrestling and
indoor track.
Contact: Omaha Sports Commission,
www.omahasports.org.
South Sioux City
On the banks of the Missouri River in
northeast Nebraska is South Sioux City,
a city with more than 170 acres of parks
and a wide variety of venues, such as the
Riverfront Baseball and Softball Complex
and the Jeff C. Dible Soccer Complex.
Hotel rooms: 2,500+
Major facilities: South Sioux City
offers 15 full-sized soccer fields, five
tennis courts, 20 baseball/softball fields,
four basketball courts and a football
stadium with seating for 1,700.
Contact: South Sioux City
Area Chamber & CVB,
www.visitsouthsiouxcity.com. ■
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