National Bowling Stadium

The ultimate bowling experience. Not a venue for your family outing or company get togethers. This is where the pro’s bowl and where the Open Championships are regularly held. Tough bowling conditions every time. 70+ lanes upstairs (elevator and escalators available). Every conceivable pro-​shop and item available too at reasonable prices. I go here for the Open Championships. Meeting up with friends from across the country is always a good time! Great bowling venue for those who compete.

What an amazing place!
Came here to bowl in the National Tournament this year.
Place is very clean and it is ran great. There is lots of room for check in, balls getting weighed in, meetings, etc.
There is great stadium seating in the middle of the venue that allows you to watch a lot of bowlers at once and kick back and relax.
They have a great museum as well that you can walk through and see the history of bowling!
Bowling alleys need to take a look at this place and model it!

Excellent venue! Stadium style seating allows you to watch dozens of bowlers and you get great views of the lanes, ball movement, and terjectory.
We attended the USBC Open Championship.

I bowled here for the USBC championship and also when the casino’s used to host their annual parties. This place is huge! and feels just like that movie King Pin. I might not of done well during the tournament but I still left the place feeling like a star!

Now this is a Bowling alley. All the shoes were new and the balls too. The people were very friendly. I’d go back again when in town.

So the place its self was huge and watching the tournament was fun, my issue was we were told several different things from the staff we just wanted to bowl a game one said we could one said we couldn’t and we had to find staff to help us. Not a single person greeted us or asked us if we needed help. The place was busy but not packed at all. This whole trip to Reno has been kinda off putting. We also were told to go to another bowling alley by a staff member and he said odd things that weren’t true. The museum was fun we made a quick tour and got outta there. Then went the another place where we could bowl.

This place is huge I remember the first time I came here when they built the got the women’s national bowling league going on today ladies a role in a lot strikes

This place was so cool! I am not a bowling fan by any means; I probably play twice a year maximum. However, this five-​story structure included what seemed like 200 lanes that had stadium seating behind them to watch some of the most advanced bowlers in the country play. The bowling Hall of Fame is also included at this location and was a good twenty minute walk through. Overall if you’re looking to kill a couple hours in Reno and by all means swing by here for a visit!

This place is incredible! Even if you’re not that into bowling, this place will make you a fan or follower of this great sport! I traipsed in here thinking, it might at least be amusing to see the cast of characters bowling in this place (blinded by the stereotypes of Kingpin and Big Lebowski, my bad!) because when we reached the lanes, and there are lanes far as the naked eye could see, pretty much, all I saw were people that could roll, for real. Just knocking everything down! Yeah, these people are pros, And there were no sequins, or comb-​overs to be found. I am embarrassed for what I thought it would be, and am amazed at what it actually is: A gigantic, indoor stadium for bowling, for the world’s best bowlers to compete in one arena. There is stadium seating and standing room for I’d say, several hundred to maybe a few thousand spectators. If you like bowling. If the sport even brings a mild interest or curiosity inside you, and you’re in the Reno-​Lake Tahoe area, please do yourself a favor and visit the NBS! I’m glad I did! You’ll feel differently about your local alley, once you’ve been to the NBS! This is the Super Bowl of Bowling!

The largest bowling stadium I’ve ever been to. Went for a sightseeing tour during a recent trip in Reno. There’s a museum section that displays all the original bowlers and the Hall of Fame along with old trophies won by pro-​bowlers over the years. The are bowling balls from the 1800’s in there!
The actual bowling stadium area is huge! I am definitely interested in attending a bowling tournament game just to see all the lanes in action!

Wow the largest bowling alley I’ve ever been through.
Overall I feel like this place is a 3 star bowling alley. Age has taken it’s toll on the lanes here, but I add an extra star because the service was plain olé awesome.
I’ve never seen so many lanes in a building before.
The sheer size of this place makes you go WOW!
Again, the lanes are not the best I’ve been to, but know there is plenty of room for a billion people to bowl.

Visited 6÷4÷13 through 6÷08÷13.
Attended the USBC Open Nationals this week. This was one of the best bowling experiences!
I am very impressed with this stadium. Huge non-​bowler seating above the lanes. A downstairs bar with a smaller set of lanes. But most important, the ability for USBC to run over 300 bowlers through in a very smooth way.
The center is located just a block away from some quality small casinos. This is something that every bowler should experience at least once.
My hats off to Reno, The National Bowling Stadium and USBC for a great event and time.
I will be coming back!

Had a great time, didn’t bowl at my best but had fun.

I’ve been here a few times with a client. I found the food was so so and overpriced. I got a buffalo chicken wrap and it was buffalo chicken strips, the only sauce was a basic buffalo sauce, lettuce and what would have been mayo if I hadn’t said no all thrown in together hastily and in an uncohesive manner. This item wasn’t overpriced, but everything else was. Cheeseburgers that almost certainly were microwaved for 6.75, fries for 4 bucks, Bud for like 5 bucks. Pretty lame, even for a bowling stadium.
Another person described the experience here well. I really don’t care much about bowling, but thought the building and design was impressive. It’s 80 lanes wide and has a particularly good design for spectating with large booths above the sit down areas for the bowlers, tables in the middle to put things and plenty of room higher up in stands. There are nice areas to the side which allowed the Special Olympics there to sit and be briefed after walking a hallway and then enter along a walkway past the middle of the back of the lanes.
There was also plenty of room to set up a long table with food for the participants and support staff for the event as well as logistical support.
The Bowling stadium did a superb job supporting the Special Olympics for this event with a nice opening ceremony, well run bowling including practice and no problems despite a wide variety of disabilities and special needs. Everyone seemed to have a really nice time and a good opportunity to see old friends and just enjoy life smiling rather than deal with the day to day. I guess they could all pretend they were professional bowlers that day. Obviously, the Special Olympics of Nevada deserves a lot of credit, but I know staff from the bowling stadium helped and that they problem donated the time at the venue to the Special Olympics participants.
This stadium was the one featured in kingpin and is the host of the most important bowling tournament annually in the US. It’s not here every year, but it is here like 8 out of 10 years.
There are massive stairs and escalators to get to the top area with the lanes here and there’s even a bar at the bottom open much of the year (including yesterday during Street Vibrations).
The stadium is close to downtown and has a good amount of dedicated parking, though I can’t remember exactly where you enter.
The exterior of the building has half a massive, 50+ side polyhedron which adds to a certain vibe of 80s tech/​style as well as spherical emphasis fitting for the bowling stadium of the US.
Lanes here are notoriously challenging with most people not meeting their usual averages. I think they’re more aggressively oiled than at most competitive bowling alleys. They may be longer and narrower too, assuming such a thing isn’t standardized in bowling alleys.

Bowled here once and was not overly impressed. The outside looks great but the inside was a little bit of a letdown.
The tournament I bowled in was handled professionally and the lanes were kept up nicely though.
Worth checking out as a distraction from gambling and drinking while in Reno.

Encountering distilled, unadulterated homage of an activity/​passion/​idea to which I’m largely indifferent should elicit an indifferent response at best or an hostile reply at worst but, in the case of this magnificent monstrosity…
It simply elicited awe.
It’s an must-​see in Reno.
Be sure to check out the bowling statue in the lobby.

If you’re a bowling fan, this place is a must go.
The pro shop alone is large enough to spend a ½ a day in. Huge with vendors from all major bowling manufacturers (Storm, Roto Grip, Dexter, etc.). The staff was incredibly nice and helpful as well.
I participated in the USBC Open Championships for the first time and it was a great experience. The shot was tough and I didn’t score well, but I still had a great time at the facility. 78 lanes and huge ceilings with stadium style seating made it one of the coolest bowling experiences of my career.
The only complaint I would have is that the product looks exactly like it did in the movie Kingpin all those years ago. It’s time for some updates. The ball returns are ancient, the approaches are a bit sticky, and some of the décor is obviously from the 90’s.
There’s no open bowling so you have to be participating in some sort of event to bowl here. If you get the chance to do it definitely go for it.

Being a local bowler, when you get a chance to bowl in the National Stadium — do it!
I bowled in the USBC Master’s Pro-​Am this past weekend and had a blast. This place is much harder to bowl in than a normal bowling center. The ceilings are much higher which makes the lanes look shorter and bc of this you tend to throw your ball faster — don’t do it!
Over the years the everyday pro shop has dwindled, but when big tournaments come to town all the companies set up a temporary pro shop. Also in the pro shop is Lane 81. Lane 81 is a training lane where you can get instruction and video to help you improve your game. This is open to the public for a fee.

Interesting… I’m not a bowler and I’m lucky if I can score higher than 75 at a typical game. But last weekend friends of a friend of mine were in town for a professional national tournament, so we swung by to cheer them on.
This place is HUGE — over 100 lanes. With each lane having a minimum of 5 – 10 team players plus assorted hangers-​on cheering on the players, the place was packed with nearly a thousand people and there were still lots of room.
Guests can hang out in comfortable booths above the lanes and drink service was available (about $ 6 for beers, $ 3 for small bottles of water). The little snack place was doing brisk business with hot dogs and nachos flying off the counters.
Everyone who worked there was very nice and helpful. I didn’t know flash photography was not allowed, so one of the gentlemen who worked there kindly came up to me and asked me to turn off my flash. He was very polite — nice not to get yelled at. An entertaining way to kill a few hours.
PS. Who knew some bowling balls cost over $ 200!!!

Huge is not enough words for me to express how big this place is. And while it is dwarfed by 252 lane facility in the Tokyo World Bowling Lanes Center in Japan, this place is still considered pretty large. I am not a bowler by any means, I’m mean my average score is often around 80, 115 max. Still it isn’t very often where you walk in and have to enter a mammoth lobby and take a 4 story escalator up to the bowling level. There were about 70 lanes here, plenty of room for your next party… The facilities were very nice and clean, and the staff that worked here were friendly and able to handle the large crowds. We were in town for a trade show and rented out the space that night. I enjoyed my time there. I kinda wish they I could have asked for some bumper bowling, man I suck. I think after I had a few drinks though, my score did go up… Not sure what it is like to bowl here on a normal night or the price, the company paid for the whole evening. Any case, looking for something to do besides gambling in Reno, check it out.