Champaign-Urbana Sports Facilities for Events
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CHAMPAIGN-URBANA, ILLINOIS
When it comes to showing off the Champaign-Urbana area, we just can’t help but notice its brilliance. Unexpected outdoor activities in the heart of the Midwest, perfect for exploration, await you. Discovering a flavor from a cuisine you’ve never tried, one of the many reasons we claim the title of Midwest Living’s Greatest Midwest Food Town, will delight you.
Champaign-Urbana is a leader in the local foods movement. Its rich agricultural scene offers exceptional flavors straight from the farm, which led to Champaign-Urbana being named Midwest Living’s Greatest Midwest Food Town. Discover over 40 locally owned bars and restaurants in downtown Champaign, many featuring local ingredients.
Groups looking for a challenge can solve the escape rooms at CU Adventures in Time & Space. Unlike other escape rooms, these challenges are completely designed and created locally by local filmmakers Chris & Anne Lukeman. In one hour, you’ll be immersed in a world filled with unique puzzles to solve.
Find your perfect fall décor at Curtis Orchard & Pumpkin Patch, where you can pick among hundreds of pumpkins and gourds. Stroll the apple orchards for to pick the latest harvest and bring home their award-winning honey! Kids love the activities on hand including a petting zoo, mazes, pony rides, and much more.
Visit Prairie Fruits Farm & Creamery, a farmstead that produces award-winning goat cheese and gelato. Dine in their in-house restaurant highlighting local ingredients, go for a hike with the goats, and learn about sustainable farming practices.
In addition to seeing a dozen of Santa’s reindeer, visitors to Hardy’s Reindeer Ranch can take their time finding their way through the six-acre Cornfusion maze and finish up at the western-style banquet facility for a BBQ or outdoor weenie roast.
Get a Planner’s Perspective
Don’t just take our word for it, hear what these planners had to say.
“As an event organizer, we saw firsthand how the commitment to excellence shown by the team of Experience Champaign-Urbana elevated the experience and the execution of US Quadball’s National Qualifier event. The way ECU wrapped its arms around our event to create a shared experience for the local community, businesses, and our athletes was equivalent to something one can only describe as concierge levels of service. You can go anywhere to host an event, however, if you want a true event partner, choose Experience Champaign-Urbana.”
— Erron J Toppin, President & CEO of Hit Your Mark Productions, Event partner to US Quadball
Robert White
Director of Group Sales & Partnerships
217-351-4133
robertw@experiencecu.org
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Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, is a welcoming location of two cities that have stellar hospitality for events and community-based activities and restaurants. Champaign-Urbana has an Experience Team with the purpose of helping coordinate events of people visiting the area. Erron J. Toppin, Chief Officer of Hit Your Mark Productions Event Planning, recognized the Experience Team saying, “The way ECU wrapped its arms around our event to create a shared experience for the local community, businesses, and our athletes was equivalent to something one can only describe as concierge levels of service. You can go anywhere to host an event, however, if you want a true event partner, choose Experience Champaign-Urbana.”
Outdoors Are the Way to Go
The Health and Wellness Center in Urbana holds a community group walk for families every Tuesday where people can experience the blissful nature of the city. In Champaign-Urbana, there are over a dozen parks and five forest preserves in this area for leisure sightseeing and recreational activities. Depending on the time of year people can take pictures with their friends or take walks through the preserves. The area of Champaign-Urbana is not short of outdoor festival activities such as Hardy’s Reindeer Ranch where people of all ages can interact with reindeer, go through a challenging corn-maze and enjoy some BBQ with their families.