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Indoor Riding Arena

Indoor Riding Arena buildings offer an easy, economical way to keep your horses safe while providing plenty of storage space for tack and feed. Our premium-quality, clear-span buildings make ideal riding arenas, as they can be designed in widths up to 40m and offer unlimited lengths, resulting in an open, cathedral-style look and feel while leaving you ample room to groom and ride.

The affordability, durability, and low-maintenance nature of steel buildings make them ideal for buyers with all types of budgets, and you can customize your building in accordance with your unique needs. No matter your specific needs, you can count on YILI Steel Structure to provide a steel building that offers a quiet, safe, and enjoyable space for horses and riders alike.

YILI Steel Structure frequently supply throughout the world include:

Indoor Riding Arenas

Horse Stables

Equestrian Arenas

Feed/Hay Storage

Tack Storage

How Big Should an Indoor Riding Arena be?

Standard Riding Arena Sizes (in feet & meters)

The type of riding being done in your arena will determine its required size. For example, a standard multi-purpose arena is around 20m by 40m (130 x 70 feet), whereas a driving arena is typically 40m x 80m (130 x 260 feet). The larger designs listed below are also considered standard sizes.

According to experts, the minimum dimensions for an average horse arena should be no less than 18m in width and interior heights ranging from 4.8m to 5.4m measuring ground up to the peak of the trusses. The recommended horse arena sizes are as follows: 80' wide x 200' long(24m*60m)  and 60' wide by 120' long(18m*36m).

It's important to incorporate a clear span structure, which means that there are no beams or posts inside the riding area. Steel buildings are ideal for these types of designs.

If you plan to ride in large groups, it is advisable to do so with a longer area for the indoor arena. In terms of height, it is typical for indoor riding arenas to be 4.8m high. Add an extra1 or 2 m in the case of jumping horses. Anything beyond that will fall under the realm of commercial or professional riding arenas.

The doorways should be ideally 3 to 4 m high to make room for a ride mounted over the horse. Make sure the doorway space is at least 4.8 wide.

Do keep in mind that while larger riding arenas look good on paper, they come with several hidden costs most arena owners fail to anticipate, and this includes more footing, real estate, and lighting.

Indoor Riding Arena Design

Our flexible design process allows you to customize any of our riding arena kits to better suit your lifestyle. If you’re seeking to start a horse boarding business, we can help you add a tack room, wash bay, and stables to the existing blueprint. Depending on your needs, you can also make any number of structural modifications to your horse arena kit, including adjustments to the building height, width, and roof pitch. Whatever your vision may be, our in-house design team will work with you to design a structure that best aligns with your plans for the space.

Other customizable options for your indoor riding arena include:

• Cupola: One cupola, or several, will give your indoor arena a finished look from the outside. Also useful for providing ventilation.
• Doors: Large sliding doors to accommodate a mounted rider or large equipment and "man doors" – add what you want where you want it to make getting in and out of your horse arena as easy and convenient as possible.
• Rain Gutters: Divert rainwater and snowmelt away from your covered riding arena to keep the doorways and high-traffic areas from becoming swampy mud holes.
• Rider Guard: Provide safety in addition to a finished look to the interior of your riding arena. Creates space between the vertical framing of the wall and the horse's hooves which, in turn, creates space between the wall and the moving horse for the rider's stirrups and knees.
• Side Lights: A cost-effective way to bring natural light into your covered riding arena. Sidelights can be less expensive and easier to install than skylights. Sidelights can be designed to be two times the size of a skylight and can bring in twice the amount of light. Additionally, sidelights eliminate the fire risk of electrical lighting.
• Sky Lights: For even more light, consider adding some skylights along the roof. Stalls: What could be more convenient than having access to your indoor arena directly from your barn? Create the ultimate multi-purpose indoor riding arena by adding stalls.
• Vapor Barrier: An insulated roof can help with acoustics, reduce noise, cut down on the hot-house effect, and limit condensation.
• Wainscoting: Vary the appearance of the arena walls by adding wainscoting halfway up and choosing an alternative color for the remainder of the wall.

Arena Base And Footing Surface

It is recommended to cover the base with four inches of limestone screenings over sand, clay, or aggregate mix. The footing can be sourced locally or bought from outside. As long as the footing provides sufficient traction, shock absorption, and stability, to help riders and horses, you can use locally sourced sand.

There are several types of sands, each of which brings something unique to the table. The ideal mixture is prepared with grains of varying sizes. The most popular mixture is medium-coarse sands that are hard and washed. Sands that crumble quickly to create dust, or sands with round grains offer minimal traction, and will ultimately result in bad experiences for riders and horses alike.

Deciding the quality of sand can be tricky, make sure you discuss this at length with your contractor and engineer to get the best possible traction for horses.

The Cost of Indoor Riding Arena

The cost of building an indoor riding arena is mainly determined by the following: structure of the arena, size of the arena, location of the arena, optional structural elements for the indoor riding arena and functional elements of the arena, etc.

Indoor Riding Arena Installation

Ease of construction is one of the decisive advantages of building with steel. Steel buildings can be delivered to your site pre-drilled, cut, welded and ready to assemble.

Most pre-engineered steel buildings include a complete set of all the components required for construction. This includes an instruction manual, and the washered bolts to join the individual components together, like a large 3D jigsaw puzzle, to form the structure in a step-by-step method. The components are cut using computer technology for maximum accuracy and a perfect fit. Since 70 percent of the work is done on the ground, many consumers are able to build the structure themselves, saving big money on labor costs!

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