It opened as the "world’s largest wooden dome" on September 14, 1991,[1] and is home to the Northern Michigan Wildcats football, women's lacrosse, and women's track and field teams, the NMU Wildcat marching band, and hosts a variety of other campus and community events.

Later that season, a Superior Dome attendance record was set at 8,432, when Northern defeated Ferris State, 27–17, on October 5.

On September 18, 2008, a new attendance record was set as 8,672 watched Northern lose to the Michigan Tech Huskies in a televised game.

[2] The Superior Dome is also host to a number of campus and community events, including the Michigan High School Athletic Association 8 man football championship games, Marquette Marathon, trade shows (approximately 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) of space), conventions, conferences, banquets, high school track meets, the Upper Peninsula "Band Day" competition/exhibition, Special Olympics and NMU's commencement exercises.

It was put on as a homecoming for the Spartans' head coach Tom Izzo, an alumnus of Northern Michigan, where his number 10 jersey was retired during the game.

The dome was retrofitted with a basketball court and over 3,000 extra seats for the game and new attendance record was set with a sold-out audience of over 11,000.