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QUEST FOR ADVENTURE For mind-boggling adventure, try Wizard Quest. It's like a scavenger hunt inside a creative world of enchantment filled with secret passages. The scenery is first class. Sports teams can divide into groups and compete against each other. Or, bring the family and race against the clock. A combination ticket includes Wizard Quest, Ripley's Believe It or Not!®, and Dells 4D Theater. www.ConceptAttractions.com courts, 75 soccer fields, 10 ice rinks, 15,000 acres of parks and 20 golf courses. Hotel rooms: 16,820 Major facilities: Delta Center, which will be called the Wisconsin Center after June 30, houses 300,000 square feet of space. U.S. Cellular Arena is a 12,700seat venue and is attached to two hotels that offer approximately 1,210 hotel rooms combined. Contact: Visit Milwaukee, See Ad www.visitmilwaukee.org. on p. 47 Oshkosh Oshkosh sits in the shores of Lake Winnebago in east-central Wisconsin. The city hosts more than 1,000 events annually, including hundreds of sporting events such as regional competitions and national championships. Hotel rooms: 940 Major facilities: The Oshkosh Sports Complex can accommodate 10,000 fans and offers facilities for football, soccer, track and field, baseball and softball. Winnebago County Park is home to 18 soccer fields and also has facilities for baseball, rugby, disc golf, archery and BMX. The 2,000-seat E.J. Schneider Field has two baseball diamonds. Kolf Sports Center is a 5,800-seat, multipurpose arena on the grounds of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and can host sports such as basketball, track and wrestling. Convention center: The Oshkosh www.sportseventsmagazine.com Convention Center has 18,500 square feet of flexible space and is connected via skywalk to the city's largest hotel, the 176-room Best Western Premier Waterfront Hotel and Conference Center, which reopened in April after a $16 million renovation. Contact: Oshkosh CVB, www.sportsoshkosh.com. Racine County Racine County is located in southeast Wisconsin along Lake Michigan approximately 30 miles south of Milwaukee and 60 miles north of Chicago. The county's topography has made the area popular for running and endurance events, such as the Color Run, the Biggest Loser RunWalk and the IRONMAN Racine 70.3 Triathlon. Hotel rooms: 1,100 Major facilities: North Beach offers 50 acres of sandy beach and is the site of the Ironman Racine 70.3 Triathlon. Festival Hall has 15,000 square feet of space. Sturtevant Sportsplex offers five volleyball courts, three basketball courts and two soccer fields. Racine Tennis Club has five indoor tennis courts. SCORe Soccer Complex features 46 acres of space and an additional 12 acres of practice fields. Contact: Real Racine, www.realracine.com. Stevens Point In the center of the state is Stevens Point, an area known for its love of the outdoors. The area features trail systems like the Green Circle Trail, a 26-mile trail that loops the urban area, and the 6,830-acre Lake DuBay, a hotbed for fishing walleyes, northern pike, muskies and bass. Hotel rooms: 1,072 Major facilities: Bukolt Park is a 3,000-seat baseball facility on the banks of the Wisconsin River. Central Wisconsin Youth Sports Complex is a 41,000-square-foot facility featuring a 1,000-seat ice rink. Goerke Field and Park sits on 28 acres and has two lighted ball diamonds, two multi-purpose fields and six lighted tennis courts. Currently ▲ SITE SELECTION GUIDE under renovation, SentryWorld Sports Center is a 276-acre complex with an 18-hole golf course, six indoor tennis courts, six outdoor tennis courts, three racquetball courts and one squash court. The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point houses many venues as well, such as an Aquatic Center with an eight-lane pool, two one-meter diving boards and one three-meter board and Berg Gym, a 1,350-seat gymnasium. Contact: Stevens Point Area CVB, www.stevenspointarea.com. Wisconsin Dells Wisconsin Dells sits in south-central Wisconsin and is named after the dells of the Wisconsin River. Every year the city hosts dozens of basketball, hockey, baseball and softball tournaments. Scheduled to open this month is the Woodside Sports Complex, a multi-sports complex with eight synthetic turf fields. Hotel rooms: 8,000 Major facilities: Wisconsin Dells Center offers both indoor and outdoor fields and indoor courts. JustAgame Fieldhouse completed a major expansion last year and can now accommodate six high school basketball courts or four high school courts plus one college court. Convention center: Various convention facilities are available at area waterpark resorts and casino resorts and total 400,000 square feet of available space for events like wrestling, powerlifting and cheer and dance. Contact: Wisconsin Dells Visitor & Convention Bureau, See Ad on p. 48 www.wisdells.com. ■ WATERPARK CAPITAL Wisconsin Dells is known as the "Waterpark Capital of the World" and boasts more indoor and outdoor waterparks per capita than anywhere else. June 2013 49