Arrowhead High School in Hartland, Wisconsin is known as a state football juggernaut year in and year out, producing division 1 talent by the bunches. Taraska Stadium is where they play the sport of football and it's where I got to see them play in the first round of the WIAA playoffs in 2025. I've been to Arrowhead High on one occasion. Back in the year of 2007 when I was looking at colleges, they had a showcase of colleges and I got to look into it for the future. I've never been to their football stadium, nor actually saw it until this night. Now Arrowhead did win this one going away en route to their state championship in the coming weeks. How did I rate this stadium? Let's find out below!
Amenities:
The food stand is there, there's a massive walkway, there's an elevator for the coaching staff to get to their booths in the boxes, and there was a food truck as well as the main stand. There was one kind of major thing missing: Bathrooms. Yep, they forgot the bathrooms to this place. They did have porta-potties, but man, a D1 juggernaut without bathrooms? Massive gut punch bro. 3.5 out of 5.
Atmosphere:
There was a section of students, but it wasn't in a numerous amount. They were kind of into the game but kind of not at the same time. The crowd was much of the same way. It felt like it was a game where they would attend, the team would show up, win by a bunch and they can come out in force the next couple of weeks, and to that credit, they did win. The team does have a solid opening onto the field, kind of how you would envision a college team with the team running through an inflatable tunnel and then running onto the field with some pyrotechnics. The team has the atmosphere down, but the crowd was more laid back. Going to split this one down the middle at 2.5 out of 5.
Location:
Arrowhead is in Hartland, which isn't a big town by any stretch. It's off a couple of highways but there is a lot of residential areas around this school. Most high schools are like this so it's no knock to Arrowhead. Overall, not a bad location and warrants a 4 out of 5.
Price/Quality:
We paid seven dollars this time, but that's the WIAA standard for the playoffs, so it isn't on Arrowhead. The food truck was pretty pricey so I skipped it. The food stand itself was where I mainly just got a couple of snacks and a hot chocolate. The hot chocolate was good, and cheap too. The snacks were cheap so cannot complain. I go with what I bought so I couldn't rate the other food. Honestly, solid 4 out of 5 overall.
Review:
All in all, Taraska Stadium isn't a bad stadium at all. I wish the crowd were more into the game than what they were but I cannot complain about the rest of it. They score a 14, and they definitely have room to make that score go higher and I fully believe they will try to.
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