Work on the new facility has been completed, and an induction was held for club officials last night, paving the way for an end to competition nights down at the temporary facility at Bob Dowling Oval.

Tomorrow night's competition night will also comprise of a handover ceremony for the club's new Polaris Electric ATV, which has been part-sponsored by Dubbo City Motor Cycles.

While tomorrow night's event will be the first competition held at the state-of-the-art facility, the official opening has been set down for later in the month when Barden Park hosts the Little Athletics Western Plain Zone championships on November 29 and 30.

David Williams, president of Dubbo Athletics, admitted the club was excited to return to Barden Park after watching the state-of-the-art centre go from just an idea to a world-class reality.

"It's been a long time and a long process, it's been quite some years," he said.

"It hasn't just been waiting for the building to be finished, we've been talking about having it for about five or six years but people are pretty excited now, we've been keeping a bit of a lid on it but now it's finally here."

Once the local club's first meeting is completed tomorrow night the club will begin training there full-time in the lead-up to the official opening and the zone championships.

"We're going to a facility with lights for a start, we haven't been able to run events as normal because we've run out of daylight so it's just going to make things easier," Williams said.

"We'll have eight long jump areas, we've got automatic timing gates so it's all getting better."

Williams added that he believed membership numbers for Dubbo athletics would increase with the move to back to Barden Park. He said more sponsors had already shown interest in supporting the club now they were based at the new facility.

After the upcoming zone championships the facility's next big test will be the Dubbo Open New Year Carnival, scheduled for January 3 and 4.

An invitation is also extended to the residents of Dubbo to come and have a look at the best athletics centre now outside of Sydney tomorrow night.

Lights will be switched on from about 7.30pm to 8pm.