From Olympic-caliber softball and pro-am volleyball tournaments to IRONMAN North Carolina and seaside soccer tournaments, Wilmington and our Island Beaches have hosted many diverse events filled with good times and record-breaking participation. Our welcoming year-round weather, breathtaking beaches and bustling riverfront are fan favorites.

There’s something for every athlete and outdoor enthusiast here, and we’re always game with endless opportunities for all kinds of watersports activities. In addition to the variety of watersports, Wilmington’s venues and facilities are best suited for youth and amateur sporting events including soccer, softball, volleyball, rugby, baseball, basketball, pickleball, tennis, triathlons, marathons, gymnastics and cheerleading competitions.

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This soccer complex offers seven full-sized soccer fields for challenge and classic soccer leagues, adult leagues, and other soccer tournaments. Home to the Cape Fear Soccer Club, this complex also offers the opportunity for other events such as lacrosse and running races.


Cape Fear Regional Soccer Complex

This facility has a 33,000 sq. ft. playing field with a special rubberized surface that can be used for baseball, softball, soccer, kickball, bocce ball, and volleyball. There are bleachers, a field house and playground. The facility is designed to provide a safe area for people with disabilities to play and compete.

Brax Stadium & PPD Miracle Field

The lighted baseball stadium is a City of Wilmington Park. Located on Shipyard Blvd., the stadium is used for men's leagues in Wilmington as well as tournament for teams from out of town. Features include a full size, lighted baseball field, with stadium seating on large cement steps behind home plate, as well as two shelters with picnic tables. Bathrooms are located on site and there is a large parking lot.

Godwin Baseball Park

The facility seats 5,200 fans for basketball events, with the capacity split between chair-back seating above the playing surface and bleacher seating on the floor level. The facility is a versatile one, serving as the home floor for the men’s and women’s basketball teams, while also providing space for physical education classes. It contains classrooms, a laboratory, two handball and racquetball courts, and offices. Numerous concert and stage performers have also appeared in the arena.

UNCW Trask Coliseum

Located near Ogden Park off Market Street, Wilmington Ice House is home to the University of North Carolina-Wilmington hockey team. This 30,000-square-foot facility features an NHL regulation-sized ice surface, a pro shop with the latest equipment and apparel, skate rentals and repairs. Private rooms are available for birthday parties and meetings.


Wilmington Ice House

The Althea Gibson Tennis Center has 24 lighted hard courts, a clubhouse and two bathroom facilities. The clubhouse has a concession stand and takes reservations for a nominal fee. Courts are open for public play. The City of Wilmington offers recreational programs throughout the year and the Greater Wilmington Tennis Association uses the courts for tournaments and league play. Adaptive Tennis, Junior Tennis and Try Tennis Adult clinics are offered year round.

Althea Gibson Tennis Complex at Empie Park

This High School has outdoor practice fields, a 1400 seat softball and baseball stadium, gym/field house for basketball/volleyball, and a 4000 seat stadium for soccer, football, track, and lacrosse.

Ashley High School

Offering guests on-site suite accommodations, relax by the outdoor pool and enjoy drinks from the bar or play a round of tennis on one of their professional courts. The 18-hole championship course is not only one of the best in the Coastal Carolina's but also the only place you can Stay and Play on the Carolina Coast. Located only two miles from Carolina and Kure Beach and six miles from historic downtown Wilmington, Beau Rivage is the perfect location for your next vacation, business meeting or important event.

Beau Rivage Golf & Resort

Cape Fear Academy is a local school situated on 27 acres of land. Recent multi-million dollar facilities expansion and improvements have included a new athletic complex with a synthetic turf field, as well as a new gymnasium and additional classrooms. The main gym has maple floors and holds 1000 spectators. The practice gym holds 150. There are two additional soccer/lacrosse fields as well as 6 tennis courts.

Cape Fear Academy

Offering 32 high quality lanes with easy, automatic scoring, Cardinal Lanes is located a few minutes drive from historic downtown. Leagues, tournaments, and parties are all held at Cardinal Lanes for bowlers of all ages. Cardinal Lanes also provides a full service snack bar.

Cardinal Lanes

Offering 32 high quality lanes with easy, automatic scoring, Cardinal Lanes North Beach Bowl is located a half way between Wrightsville Beach and Porters Neck. Leagues, tournaments, and parties are all held at Cardinal Lanes for bowlers of all ages. Cardinal Lanes also provides a full service snack bar.

Cardinal Lanes North (Beach Bowl)

This facility features a 25 stall barn, round pen, 3 riding arenas (2 lighted, one jumping), and an outdoor trail riding area, offering lessons, camps, training, boarding, and showing for all breeds.

CKS Equestrian Center

Hoggard facilities include: basketball gym, football field with lights, soccer field, 8-lane track, baseball field with lights, 3 softball fields with lights, and 6 tennis courts with lights. There is an abundant amount of parking for all events, and restrooms located on site.

Hoggard High School 

Offering a wide selection of lunch and dinner options, three full service bars and a lively, personable and attentive wait staff with lots of fun. Whether you love seafood, their famous fried chicken, BBQ, sandwiches or veggies, Capt'n Bill's has something for the whole family. There are over a dozen televisions, including a big screen, so you'll never miss the big game. You can also enjoy freshly brewed craft beers from their on-site brewery as well as great views of the 10 lighted sand volleyball courts.

Capt'n Bill's Backyard Grill

Located adjacent to Ogden Park off Gordon Road, this facility offers four full-size soccer fields with plenty of convenient parking. These fields are not lighted and the hours of operation are 8am-sunset.

Eaton Elementary Soccer Fields

Flytrap Downs is located near downtown Wilmington, NC and is Cape Fear Rugby's Home Field for all matches. There is one field on site as well as bleachers and a small shelter with a picnic table field side.

Flytrap Downs

Located in Central New Hanover County, the Hoggard High School Athletic Complex is located across College Road from Long Leaf Park and adjacent to Hoggard High School. The facility offers three full-size soccer fields without lights, two softball fields without lights, three tennis courts without lights and three lighted tennis courts.

Hoggard Athletic Complex

With over four acres of paved parking, this great complex includes the 6,000 seat Legion Stadium/Jurgenson-Gabriel Field (Football/Soccer with artificial turf), Legion Back Field (Practice), Buck Hardee Field (Baseball), four lighted tennis courts, and the Robert Shipp Pool. Located next to Greenfield Lake and minutes from Historic Downtown possible uses are for athletic events, performances, exhibitions, and other activities.

Legion Sports Complex

Offering a full-size baseball field, Little League baseball field and regulation softball field- all with lights, the complex also has two combination football/soccer fields without lights. Facility hours are 8am-10pm with lights and 8am-sunset without lights.

Myrtle Grove Athletic Complex

Wilmington's Favorite Indoor Sporting Facility! Soccer, volleyball, dodgeball, team handball and much more! State of the art facility that includes 2 full size indoor courts available for rental for all sports!

Off The Wall Sports

The YMCA of Southeastern North Carolina is comprised of two YMCA branches, an activity center and a residential camp. The Nir Family YMCA (located at 2710 Market Street) offers a full-size gymnasium that is striped for pickelball, two racquetball or handball courts, two indoor pools, an indoor cycling studio, three athletic fields and an outdoor track. Their Midtown YMCA (located at 709 George Anderson Drive) offers a full-size gymnasium with bleachers, indoor cycling, and two athletic fields. Their Ogden YMCA Activity Center (located at 7207 Ogden Business Lane) offers a full-size gymnasium with concessions stand.

YMCA of Southeastern NC

This recently renovated park is located in southern New Hanover County. The Park features include a picnic shelter with seating for 36, restrooms, two tennis courts, full basketball court, multi-purpose field, 18-hole disc golf course that is perfect for beginners, in addition to a modern playground with a twist on some of the old playground classics including a Gaga Ball pit. 

Arrowhead Park

Recently updated and graded for the biking enthusiast, this off-road eight mile trail system for mountain bikers, hikers and runners is New Hanover County’s most extensive bike trail. Located on Juvenile Center Drive, just west of the Blue Clay Road and North College Road intersection, the trails are suitable for all levels of cyclists. 

Blue Clay Bike Park

The largest area selection of pool tables (30 tables) is also home to Wilmington’s only regulation size Snooker table, a bumper pool table, as well as an arcade. There are also lots of views of many large screen televisions so that you will not miss a sporting event while you are playing. Part of this facility contains a full bar and grill with a full service wait staff so that you can order from the lunch, dinner or (after midnight) late night menus. Located next door in the same complex, Ten Pin Alley has 24 newly renovated bowling lanes that have electronic scoring. Players also can electronically order waiter-delivery of food from this Bar & Grill to be delivered right to their lane. This Bowling Alley is able to hold Professional Bowling Association Tournaments, as well as a special Family Friendly Bowling Nights on Weekends. The adjacent Lucky Strike Bar has adult beverages just steps away from the lanes.

BreakTime Billiards Bar & Grill - Family Fun Center

Cape Fear Optimist Park offers twelve acres of lighted fields for Little League play, including two baseball, one tee ball and three softball fields. The park also includes bleachers for spectators, as well as restrooms. 

Cape Fear Optimist Park

The 32 acre park features the Althea Gibson Tennis Complex with 24 hard tennis courts with lights, a clubhouse, an outdoor basketball court, a large dog park, and a large playground for children of many ages. The park also offers shelters with picnic tables, as well as connecting to the paved multi-use Gary Shell Cross City Trail. Restrooms are located at the park as well.

Empie Park

Enjoy this 15-mile primarily off-road, multi-use trail providing bicycle and pedestrian access to numerous recreational, cultural and educational destinations in Wilmington. The Gary Shell Cross-City Trail provides a bicycle and pedestrian connection from Wade Park, Halyburton Park and Empie Park to the Heide-Trask Drawbridge at the Intracoastal Waterway. At the bridge a new lookout station gives a picturesque view of the Intercoastal Waterway, and a new underpass under the bridge allows street crossing. 

Gary Shell Cross City Trail

Spanning over 9,000 square feet, this all concrete facility consists of multi-bowls with a banked street course. The park features a variety of hips, rails and ledges and is open daily at no additional charge from sunrise to sunset. Usage is intended for skateboards, inline skates and BMX freestyle bikes.

Greenfield Grind Skate Park

Greenfield Lake Park’s 250 acres are filled with biking and walking trails along Greenfield Lake. Featuring two unlit tennis courts, the Greenfield Grind Skate Park, Outdoor Amphitheater, and Boat and Kayak Rentals. Greenfield Lake is also a year round birding oasis within busy downtown Wilmington. Other park amenities include restroom facilities, water fountains, age and ability specific playgrounds, picnic shelters, grills, and an accessible fishing dock. This is the perfect place to spend any day of the year enjoying nature with family and friends.

Greenfield Park

Halyburton Memorial Park contains a 58-acre nature preserve, an accessible 1.3 mile walking and biking trail, picnic shelters and playground equipment, and their unique environmental education and events center.

Halyburton Park

Hanover Stables is a full-service equine facility located in Castle Hayne, North Carolina. Riding lessons, boarding, training and more are available. Features include: safe fencing, including full perimeter fencing, 240 x 160 lighted riding arena, and round pen for training. All stalls are well ventilated with hay rack, two inch mats, light and mounted feeders. There are ten paddocks for turnout, two wash racks with hot and cold water, and a boarder tack room with floor to ceiling lockers.

Hanover Stables

Joe Eakes Park has baseball, volleyball and basketball courts, tennis courts, playground, picnic area, off-leash fenced dog area and bocce ball courts. There is also an 18 hole disc golf course. All of these facilities are on a first come, first serve basis, so you'll want to plan accordingly.

Joe Eakes Park

Athletic facilities include the Michael J. Jordan Gymnasium for basketball, baseball field with lights, football stadium with lights, 6 tennis courts, and track. There is a large parking lot for all events and a large open field located in front of the school as well.

Laney High School

Located in central New Hanover County, Hugh MacRae Park includes four Little League baseball fields with lights, four lighted tennis courts, a sand volleyball court and a full-sized basketball court with lights. Picnic shelters and a gorgeous garden area with a pond and gazebo can be reserved for outdoor activities as well.


Long Leaf Park

This ten acre park has something for everyone in the family, even Fido. Equipped with two tennis courts, two sand volleyball courts, a basketball court, a youth basketball area, playground equipment, a dog park, baseball and softball fields, and a soccer field. There is also an 8,000 square foot skate park, complete with ramps, rails, and bowls. The Skateboard Park is unsupervised and skaters skate at their own risk. Hours of operation are 8 AM to 11 PM seven days a week. The Mike Chappell Park is bounded by Sumter Avenue and Clarendon Boulevard.

Mike Chappell Park

Enjoy the outdoor experience provided at Ogden Park, which features three picnic shelters, restrooms, a playground, an off-leash dog park and more. Tournament planners will enjoy nine tennis courts, three baseball fields, one softball field, a full-size basketball court, three soccer/football fields and a youth football stadium, all equipped with lights. Ogden Park additionally has a 10,000-square-foot concrete skate park equipped with a skate bowl, rails and steps.


Ogden Park

This city park has five lighted baseball/softball fields along with concession stands and a picnic shelter. It is used to host regional and state athletic tournaments.


Olsen Park

This beautiful four star rated championship golf course, recognized throughout the state of North Carolina, has hosted the Men’s and Women’s NC State Amateur, Mid-amateur and Senior Amateur Tournaments. Their five teeing areas allow for a quality golf experience for professional level players to mid handicappers to those who are just learning the game. The 18-hole Coastal Carolina golf course is consistently maintained to the high standards set by the Tom Fazio Design Team.

Porters Neck Country Club

This park features 1 lighted baseball field, basketball courts, 1 pool, 2 lighted softball fields, and 6 lighted tennis courts that are also striped for pickleball.

Robert Strange Park

Located near UNCW this 37,000 square feet of family fun features 24 lanes of bowling, 29 pool tables, two bars, and a Grill serving lunch, dinner, and late-night snacks. Players also can electronically order waiter-delivery of food right to their lanes. You will also find the only IBPSIA Certified Pro Shop in Southeastern North Carolina. Signature Events: Friday and Saturday Rock and Bowl Nights featuring Music Videos, and Professional Bowling Tournaments.

Ten Pin Alley - Family Fun Center

Offering free weights, universal equipment, treadmills, stationary bikes, and StairMasters, along with personal and group training and a variety of classes, The Sherriedale Morgan Boxing & Physical Fitness Center has various heavy and double end bags available for you to use as well as a speed bag platform for you to hang your own speed bag. Please bring your own hand wraps and boxing gloves with you when you come.

The Sherriedale Morgan Boxing & Physical Fitness Center

Located in southern New Hanover County, just off Carolina Beach Road, Veterans Park is 212 acre park is adjacent to Murray Middle and Ashley High Schools that is perfect for any sporting event. The park features two picnic shelters, restrooms, playground and a half mile paved walking trail. Lighted facilities include four Little League baseball fields, one regulation baseball field, one regulation softball field, four soccer/football fields, and two soccer fields. Three of the nine lighted tennis courts are lined for and can be easily converted to pickleball courts. Facilities without lights include one regulation baseball and one regulation softball field, as well as, three sand volleyball courts.

Wilmington - Veterans Park

Located in the middle of the Fitness Loop (a two-and-a-half-mile paved walking and running path), in Wrightsville Beach Park has two outdoor basketball courts, four tennis courts, pickelball courts, three sand volleyball pits, one softball field, an open area for soccer/flag football, a meeting and recreation room, the Loop as well as a new all-inclusive playground geared towards children with disabilities. Signature Events: Valentine Run, Farmers Market, Summer Outdoor Concert Series, Bark in the Park (Dog Agility Display)

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