Location of Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore Location in the United States | |
Address | 333 West Camden Street |
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Location | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Coordinates | 39°17′2″N 76°37′18″W / 39.28389°N 76.62167°W |
Public transit | MARC at Camden Station Light RailLink at Convention Center and Camden Station Metro SubwayLink at Lexington Market and Charles Center MTA Maryland bus: 69, 70, 73, 75 |
Operator | Maryland Stadium Authority |
Capacity | 48,876[1] (1992–2010) 45,971 (2011–2021)[2] with standing room at least 48,187 44,970 (2022–present) |
Record attendance | 49,828 (July 9, 2005) |
Field size | Left Field Line – 333 ft (101 m) Straight Away Left – 384 ft (117 m) Left Center – 398 ft (121 m) Deep Left Center – 410 ft (125 m) Center Field – 400 ft (122 m) (Not posted) Right Center – 373 ft (114 m) Right Field Line – 318 ft (97 m) |
Surface | Kentucky Blue Grass |
Construction | |
Broke ground | June 28, 1989 |
Opened | April 6, 1992 |
Construction cost | US$110 million ($239 million in 2023 dollars[3]) |
Architect | HOK Sport (now Populous) |
Project manager | Lehrer McGovern and Bovis[4] |
Structural engineer | Bliss & Nyitray, Inc |
Services engineer | Kidde Consultants Inc.[5] |
General contractor | Barton Malow/Sverdrup/Danobe[6] |
Tenants | |
Baltimore Orioles (MLB) (1992–present) |
Oriole Park at Camden Yards, commonly known as Camden Yards, is a baseball stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. It is the ballpark of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles, and the first of the "retro" major league ballparks constructed during the 1990s and early 2000s.[7] It was completed in 1992 to replace Memorial Stadium. The stadium is in downtown Baltimore, a few blocks west of the Inner Harbor in the Camden Yards Sports Complex.
Since its opening, Oriole Park has been widely hailed as one of the best stadiums in baseball and credited with starting a wave of neotraditional ballparks after the cookie-cutter stadiums of the mid to late 20th century.[8][9]
Since construction on Oriole Park began in 1989, taxpayers have shouldered at least $1.3 billion of the stadium's costs. In 2023, the Orioles asked taxpayers to pay an additional $600 million for stadium renovations.[10]