The Valley Ice Garden was a 3,500-seat multi-purpose arena in Bozeman, Montana. It was built in 1996. It was home to the Big Sky Thunder arena football team.
The arena was sold in May 2006 to Cardinal Distributing of Bozeman, Montana. It will be closed at the end of August 2006 to be renovated into a cold storage warehouse.
The Ice Garden was home to the NAHL's Bozeman Icedogs, the Bozeman Figure Skating Club, and the Gallatin Valley Hockey Club (But in 2005 BAHA and GVHC formed clubs and are now called the "Jr.Icedogs"). The facility was also hosts to numerous camps, clinics, tournaments, concerts, trade shows, and other community events throughout the course of the year.
Famous quotes containing the words valley, ice and/or garden:
“I will frankly declare, that after passing a few weeks in this valley of the Marquesas, I formed a higher estimate of human nature than I had ever before entertained. But alas! since then I have been one of the crew of a man-of-war, and the pent-up wickedness of five hundred men has nearly overturned all my previous theories.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
““A tedious brief scene of young Pyramus
And his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth”—
Merry and tragical? Tedious and brief?
That is hot ice and wondrous strange snow!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, and the stars begin to flicker in the sky,”
—Mitchell Parish (1901–1993)