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Best Paintball Arenas In The Twin Cities

There's no better place to take a battle than the war-zone of a paintball arena and luckily, the Twin Cities have plenty to choose from. Here are the best paintball arenas in our area. Don't forget your goggles.
Splatball Paintball
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Splatball, Inc.

2412 University Ave. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55414
612-378-0385
www.splatball.com

Splatball opened in 1984 and has the oldest known paintball fields in the world. It's also the only paintball company in Minnesota providing both indoor paintball fields and outdoor paintball fields.

MN Pro Paintball
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MN Pro Paint Ball

14001 Grand Avenue
Burnsville, MN
952-892-1540 ‎
www.mnpropaintball.com

MN Pro Paintball is equipped with seven playing fields which range from woodsball fields embellished with towers and trenches to tournament style Xball fields with inflatable bunkers. Open weekends.

Northside Sports Paintball
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Northside Sports Paintball

14622 Ferret Street Northwest
Ramsey, MN 55303
763-427-3892
www.northsidesports.com

Northside Sports is open year-round and welcomes guests to battle it out on any of their five large paintball fields. Players can utilize any of the hundreds of structures which include bunkers, hills, towers, bridges and tunnels as hiding places or as advantage over their opponents. Players have access to all five fields without any time restriction. Northside even has an open door policy where players can even leave and return the same day.

Action Packed Paintball
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Action Packed Paintball Games

8200 Old Highway 169 Blvd
Jordan, MN 55352
952-492-6776
www.actionpackedpaintball.com

30 minutes from Minneapolis in the Minnesota River Valley, Action Packed Paintball offers eight playing fields which comprise of urban combat, woodsball, speedball and civil war.

The Adventure Zone
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Adventure Zone Paintball

13400 Courthouse Blvd.
Rosemount, MN 55068
952-890-7981
www.theadventurezone.net

South of the Twin Cities in Rosemont, Adventure Zone Paintball players battle on 40 acres of heavily wooded land. Fields are complemented with hills, valleys, bunkers and battle stations.

Splat Tag
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Splat Tag

835 County Road E
Hudson, WI 54016
651-488-7700
www.SplatTag.com

This course isn't in Minnesota but since it's only a short drive (25 minutes) from the Twin Cities we thought we'd mention it since its 200 acres and 18 courses makes it the biggest outdoor paintball course in the Minnesota and Wisconsin area.

-Beth Blair has turned a decade of travel industry experience into an action-packed travel writing career. She writes for various print and online publications and is co-founder of TheVacationGals.com and TheSpaGals.com. Learn more about her at BethBlair.com and find her on Twitter: @BethBlair.

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