diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c840c742..581d061d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ Changes since the last non-beta release.
 
 - Remove `yarn_install` rake task, and stop installing js packages automatically as part of `assets:precompile` [PR 412](https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/pull/412) by [G-Rath](https://github.com/g-rath).
 
+- Remove `check_yarn` rake task [PR 443](https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/pull/443) by [G-Rath](https://github.com/g-rath).
+
 - Remove `https` option for `webpack-dev-server` [PR 414](https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/pull/414) by [G-Rath](https://github.com/g-rath).
 
 - Remove `verify_file_existance` method [PR 446](https://github.com/shakacode/shakapacker/pull/446) by [G-Rath](https://github.com/g-rath).
diff --git a/lib/tasks/shakapacker/check_yarn.rake b/lib/tasks/shakapacker/check_yarn.rake
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b9ea98e..00000000
--- a/lib/tasks/shakapacker/check_yarn.rake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-namespace :shakapacker do
-  desc "Verifies if Yarn is installed"
-  task :check_yarn do
-    require "semantic_range"
-
-    begin
-      which_command = Gem.win_platform? ? "where" : "which"
-      raise Errno::ENOENT if `#{which_command} yarn`.strip.empty?
-
-      yarn_version = `yarn --version`.strip
-      raise Errno::ENOENT if yarn_version.blank?
-
-      pkg_path = Pathname.new("#{__dir__}/../../../package.json").realpath
-      yarn_range = JSON.parse(pkg_path.read)["engines"]["yarn"]
-      is_valid = SemanticRange.satisfies?(yarn_version, yarn_range) rescue false
-      is_unsupported = SemanticRange.satisfies?(yarn_version, ">=4.0.0") rescue false
-
-      unless is_valid
-        $stderr.puts "Shakapacker requires Yarn \"#{yarn_range}\" and you are using #{yarn_version}"
-        if is_unsupported
-          $stderr.puts "This version of Shakapacker does not support Yarn #{yarn_version}. Please downgrade to a supported version of Yarn https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/"
-        else
-          $stderr.puts "Please upgrade Yarn https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/"
-        end
-        $stderr.puts "Exiting!"
-        exit!
-      end
-    rescue Errno::ENOENT
-      $stderr.puts "Yarn not installed. Please download and install Yarn from https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/install/"
-      $stderr.puts "Exiting!"
-      exit!
-    end
-  end
-end