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Hoyt Lakes Arena

Hoyt Lakes Arena is located within the heart of northerm MN Iron Range at 102 Kennedy Memorial Drive in Hoyt Lakes, MN.  Home to the Minnesota Iron Rangers (SIJHL) Junior A hockey team, Mesabi East Giants youth hockey program, and Hoyt Lakes Figure Skating Club. Hoyt Lakes Arena is a classic built back in 1970 with one sheet of indoor NHL ice measuring at 200' x 85', and a newly built outdoor smaller rink behind that arena.  Hoyt Lakes Arena boasts a seating capacity of just over 900 spectators to cheer-on skaters within this iron range arena that is also home to todays cooperative Eveleth-Gilbert-Hoyt Lakes Golden Bears High School hockey team, that uses the arena as a practice facility. Outside of the arena lies none other that a large taconite rock donated by the Taconite Recreation Club, harvested from the lower cherty member of the Biwabik Iron Formation that is estimated to be over 2 billion years old!