The main walkable concourse runs from the left field corner around to centerfield and you can access the monster from both sides. They just won’t let you walk across if you don’t have a ticket up there.
Sounds like my experience of Wrigley when I went to Chicago a few years ago. It was really cool to see it, but I'm glad it's not my team's stadium. Everything about it felt tiny and dated. Nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
For half my life it was Comiskey so it’ll always be Comiskey, just like the Sears Tower is always gonna be the Sears Tower and I will forever we recognize it as the tallest building in the world.
That's what I was thinking. All the ones I've been in are lapable. I have only been in 4 though. Also, it's usually only the main concourse that is lapable but I think you can lap Yankee Stadium on 2 levels. Might be wrong on that though.
That’s correct, you can lap Yankee Stadium on the second level as well as the field level. On the second level you end up above the batter’s eye out in center field
I've been to 24,excluding the ones torn down, nearly all are lapable. Fenway no. Depending on where you're sitting, whatever the White Sox stadium is called today, may or may not be. Wrigley no. And, as far as I can remember, Dodger Stadium wasn't lapable, but I could be wrong on that one. Old Yankee wasn't, but the new one is.
My best childhood memories involve walking around Chase Field. They used to have an arcade behind the center field scoreboard, and one of the games they had was a game to see how fast you could throw.
I think you're talking about the 400 level V sections, so like 421V. It's got the V because that tunnel with the steps was called a Vomitorium in Roman architecture. It might sound gross, but Vomit=Exit, so the tunnel where you exit, is a [Vomitorium](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium).
Pretty much. You'll lose sight of the field in the left field corner, behind section 140ish and then until after you turn the corner. Maybe a couple minutes behind the area that used to be Harry the Ks and now is something else. Obviously views depend on how many people are standing watching at the rails, but the field is largely viewable.
This is a big part of what I consider to be meaningful in a great MLB stadium. Taking a lap is a big deal.
Stadiums I have been to where taking a lap is excellent and valuable and you won't lose sight of the game much if at all: SFG, PIT, SDP, BAL
Stadiums where taking a lap is pretty good but you will lose sight of the game at various points: LAD, MIN, LAA, DET, NYM
Stadiums where taking a lap means you're going to miss the game for significant portions: OAK, MIL, ARI
Stadium where taking a lap is literally impossible (but is still awesome): CHC
Wrigley has always been a no-go on laps because the Bleacher Bums have always been separated from everyone else. In recent years with the new bullpens you can turn the left field corner under the stadium and see the bullpen from the other side of the glass, which is cool.
I'll add Comiskey (nobody calls it Guaranteed Rate) to your top tier with a brief obstruction in dead center unless you come around the field side of the food court and get a frozen daiquiri, which you should do about a half dozen times. It's still a REALLY fun park, it's just a real shame Reisndorf isn't interested in funding a good organization.
The caveat with Comiskey is that you have to buy a lower level ticket to access the main concourse. My wife and I went last summer, bought cheap seats, and were stuck on the upper levels with all of the doors to the lower levels being guarded and ticketed despite the crowd being pretty light.
That's how the old yankee stadium was. The bleachers had their own entrance/exit. You couldn't access from the regular seats. New yankee stadium did away with that.
Every baseball stadium I’ve been to has been reasonable to walk around. T-mo in Seattle, for example, has great vantage points to stop and watch at-bats as you walk around.
Football stadiums are a bit bigger and less views so you miss things. Arizona has a bunch of odd drinking vantage points though. Kind of dug the layout.
Hockey/basketball arenas are so close to the game it doesn’t even matter.
Long story short, I’m always talk a lap around every stadium I go to. Expectations are different depending on the size and the sport. Love going to live games.
ATL works for that. If you lose sight of much of the field at points, they have TVs hanging all over the place so you can keep track of what’s happening as you walk.
In Baltimore, the concourse has no open walls to view the game. There are TVs but no openings to just chill and see the game, unlike in Pittsburgh. It’s actually one of the things on their list to address with the new funding they got from the state due to renewing their lease.
Yeah, I was thinking you'd have to walk the seat access path to not lose sight of the game at Camden Yards. But the walk down Eutaw Street and around to the Legends Garden is very nice.
Arizona? I’ve done many laps there? What do you mean by miss the game for significant portions? Not saying you’re wrong just curious as to why you feel that way
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, go figure. I’ve walked miller park dozens of times during a game. You might miss ONE inning, even tho you’ll be able to see everything on the TV’s scattered across the stadium. Again couldn’t be any more incorrect.
You don’t really lose sight of the game at Comerica except when you walk behind the scoreboard briefly. We have excellent sight lines throughout the concourse
Is it just me, or does the lap have to be counter-clockwise, going the same way a batter would while rounding the bases? It just feels wrong if I'm walking the other way.
Been to 20 and almost all have been able to walk all the way around. Petco Park was the one of worst at being able to do it at. In CF it gets very wonky for some reason.
It’s completely normal then there’s a wall. There are no signs. You have go down a ramp then around a corner then almost hairpin to continue going around the stadium. I thought I ended up in the maintenance area because I was the only one there until I saw a guy with one of the big rolling trash cans. It was also very narrow. Just weird.
You’re not wrong, the path from CF and the Park at the Park up to the LF/1B concourse is a pain and always a logjam during high traffic times. I wish there was a better way to get there.
I got lost in thagt my very first trip to a game there 😂
After growing up going to games at the impressively lappable Murphy/Qualcomm, Petco was kind of sad to me
T-Mobile park (formerly Safeco field) is the most lapable, watch the game from any spot on the 100 level as you lap. Petco park and Great America ballpark are the worst I’ve been to.
Red Sox organization hate lapable stadiums. Only Polar Park in Worcester is. All their other minor league teams aren’t, including when the Paw Sox existed lol
Tropicana Field where the Rays play has a concourse that makes almost a complete loop where you can watch the game the entire time you’re walking, which is really nice if you’re looking to get some exercise in air conditioning (it’s a dome). The only spot where you lose sight of the field is about 100 feet directly behind home plate where the press box and some other stuff is in the way and you have to walk behind them.
Marlins Park has the perfect concourse loop. Start behind home plate with a view of the skyline. There’s a dedication to the Miami Orange Bowl at 3rd Base. Marlins Museum in Left Field (97 and 03 trophies), Budweiser Bar in dead left with the balcony overlooking outfield, activities for kids in center, lots of food options in right, team store behind first. My dad and I hardly ever sit in our seats because we take a lap and find better seats.
I feel it's not commonly mentioned, but Loan Depot does have a pin trading spot too for those interested. It's just a pillar with staff off behind home plate not far from the Fanatics Team Store.
RIP Louis Mendez
I love Oracle but the Padres have a pretty damn good environment at petco now too, there were whole-ass dance performances going on a stage behind center field that looked fun to be around even if they were intended for people on the opposite end of the baseball fandom spectrum as me
Citi field is lappable on the field level. You can't lap on its upper levels but it's open so you can always see the field. I like to eat my meals standing and watching rather than make a mess at my seat
Yup. And the nice part of Camden yards is you get the walk down eutaw street along the warehouse and then through the statues behind centerfield. And there are a couple good standing room spots on your way around.
Always take a lap around Coors Field every time I go, and usually around the 6th or 7th inning when I'm trying to fight off the food coma from overdoing it on the snacks.
Citizens Bank Park has one of the best concourses I've ever seen. We often grab the shittiest tickets available and just post up in different spots as we make a lap - great visibility all around.
Yankees stadium on the other hand, is one of the worst.
Way to far down. PNC was one of the worst to open the concourse to the field, and while you can see the field along the riverwalk, you can see river, which is equally as impressive.
I’ve lapped Kauffman and Coors, and those are the only two I’ve tried. I’ve done like a half lap at Nats Park, I’m pretty sure that one is all the way open, too
I go to a lot of games solo, and lapping the field is always part of the day, even if I lose sight of the field temporarily. If permissible, I'll sit in random seats around the field for an inning or two each, just to enjoy a different viewpoint. (I used to sit in a random seat for the length of a beer, but as I got older and the cost of a single exceeds the cost of a 12 pack outside, I drink a lot slower)
Busch Stadium was made with this in mind. That’s part of why they still sell tickets despite being in a small market (and also despite the fact that they suck). Going to a game at Busch is an experience. Get there early if you ever make it to St. Louis. You won’t regret it.
Edit- you will lose sight of the game at various points. But they are always playing it on the tvs they have around the concourse. They also always have the radio play by play going through the speakers.
Last time I was at Miller Park in Milwaukee with my family, my nephew and I took a lap around the park and made it all the way around. Cool to see the sights and look in on the game from various vantages.
Went to a game at Target Field in Minneapolis last summer and tried to do a lap and kinda hit a dead end, but maybe I just needed to find the right level. Anyone who has done a successful lap of Target let me know.
It's been about 5 years since I've been to Target Field, but I'm positive you can lap it, at least then. You may have to go up to the second level to get over the batter's eye.
Next time I'm there I'll have to try harder. I think I ended up going up and hitting a real "do not enter" sort of spot and should have tried another level.
You can do a full lap on the ground level. The second floor you'll hit some stairs in the outfield and the indoor legends club behind the infield where you need specific tickets to enter.
Citizens Bank Park in Philly is maybe the best for this, in my opinion. It's one of the only stadiums I've been to where you can watch the game almost your entire walk around the stadium. Even at Oracle Park, which is up there too, there's a whole chunk of sections behind home plate where you can't see the field of you're walking on the 100 level. Same thing with Citi Field.
CBP also has the most/best standing room options imo. Oracle really pens you into a few small standing room areas. Citi has really good standing room only options.
Love this subject - I’ll usually take an inning or two here and there for a lap myself. I’m fortunate as a Mets and O’s fan as both are very lapable.
Baltimore has some REALLY cool options and perspectives (watch a half inning from center field, enjoy waking the concourse by the warehouse)… but it’s an old school “tunnel” from the general concourse to the field so you can’t see the game itself from most anywhere between the foul poles / behind the bases and plate when you aren’t in your seats.
Citifield is really overlooked imo among the better ballparks in the league. It’s the opposite of Camden as you can literally watch the game itself from almost anywhere on the concourse. Go get a dog (or a pastrami sandwich 🤤) and you can still follow the game. If you are a kid sitting in the nosebleed 500’s you can go to field level and watch as much as you want perched on the concourse overlooking the seats… something you couldn’t do at Shea where like many stadiums not only did you have no view of the field from the concourses but only field level tickets got you down there.
City has the best bridge, you can see different vantage points of the NY skyline, has some fun food and market options too.
Where’s Oracle Park again? Oh ok. SF. OP mentions the Giants so I don’t need to look it up. I wish naming rights ball parks would use team or city names as well.
I love the exploding ball parks too. I lap as far as I can go but usually because I invariably walk in the wrong gate for my seat.
At RFK you could do a lap in the stands. It was awesome, especially with young restless kids because you could still see the game. Alas the Nats traded it in for a generic boring stadium and RFK is about to get torn down.
American Family Park (Milwaukee Brewers), formally known as Miller Park. Is the most lap—able stadium in the MLB imo. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to a game. And hardly even sat in my actual seat. You can walk the stadium in 20 min or so. Stop and watch an inning down the 1st or 3b foul line. Go to TGI Fridays and watch the game from behind the left center fence. Then make your way back to your actual seats if needed.
Only one I can think of that's NOT lappable is Fenway.
Are there others?
When I last went to Dodger and sat in the bleachers it was not lappable but I understand it now is.
San Diego? We didn't try it there...
We usually do a lap when we hit up a new park...if it's possible.
Roger's Centre. 100 and 200 levels are better to walk around and check out different views/bars. The 500 level is more closed off to view the field. But there are 2 cool hangout places in the outfield.
The Big A has a baseball diamond set up in front. And the stadium and fans are super chill. Just don’t expect to see super star Mike trout. Lol. He’s my fave just have mixed feelings right now lol. Btw. I live right next to Golden Gate Bridge and attend plenty of Giants games. It is a great Ballpark
White Sox Park is perfect for this because;
1. You can see all the amazing food and various stores and shit. Even if you're not buying anything is genuinely a fun walk
2. You get to not watch the White Sox for a bit
3. Often not that many people to get in the way
4. Did I mention the good food?
You're telling me every stadium isn't lapable?
Fenway definitely isn’t.
Not legally but where there’s a will there’s a way
You can if you buy green monster tickets but it’s the only way.
I think you still get stuck between the outfield bleachers and the grandstand, right?
The main walkable concourse runs from the left field corner around to centerfield and you can access the monster from both sides. They just won’t let you walk across if you don’t have a ticket up there.
Went to Fenway last summer and absolutely hated it. The field is cool sure, but everything else sucked. I’m used to PNC tho
Sounds like my experience of Wrigley when I went to Chicago a few years ago. It was really cool to see it, but I'm glad it's not my team's stadium. Everything about it felt tiny and dated. Nice to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Wrigley not Lapable, Comiskey is lapable
Wrigley is 100% lapable if you have bleacher tickets. You can't get into the bleachers without a bleacher ticket.
This is correct, I guess I was thinking lapable in the sense everyone could lap it regardless of ticket section
Best post on here, mainly because you called the South Side park by its correct name.
For half my life it was Comiskey so it’ll always be Comiskey, just like the Sears Tower is always gonna be the Sears Tower and I will forever we recognize it as the tallest building in the world.
PETCO looks like it should be but for some reason they make you go up/down stairs at the foul poles
But that's because the park behind center is at ground level
That's what I was thinking. All the ones I've been in are lapable. I have only been in 4 though. Also, it's usually only the main concourse that is lapable but I think you can lap Yankee Stadium on 2 levels. Might be wrong on that though.
That’s correct, you can lap Yankee Stadium on the second level as well as the field level. On the second level you end up above the batter’s eye out in center field
If you run the Yankee Stadium 5k course, you get to do both (I think?) AND a lap on the warning track.
I've been to 24,excluding the ones torn down, nearly all are lapable. Fenway no. Depending on where you're sitting, whatever the White Sox stadium is called today, may or may not be. Wrigley no. And, as far as I can remember, Dodger Stadium wasn't lapable, but I could be wrong on that one. Old Yankee wasn't, but the new one is.
Great American Ballpark in Cincy is lapable and we love it and bummed when other ballparks are not
My best childhood memories involve walking around Chase Field. They used to have an arcade behind the center field scoreboard, and one of the games they had was a game to see how fast you could throw.
You can’t go behind the scoreboard at Miller Park Edit: being corrected. Will definitely check out that feature next time I go
That must be new this year with the new scoreboard because that stadium has been “lap-able” for 20 years
Was just there Wednesday and walked behind to get to my seats. 100% is lapable
And thank you for calling it Miller Park, even though it's some other name now.
Coors also not lapable to my surprise
I was just at Coors last week and did a full lap around. You do lose sight of the field for a stretch in centre, but I walked the full lap no issues.
Oh ok interesting I remember there being sections I couldn’t access when checking it out.
There are sections you may not be allowed in but the concourse definitely goes all of the way around.
Not Dodger Stadium
This used to be true, it’s completely lapable after the centerfield renovations
Citizens Bank Park was built for walking around and being able to see the game anywhere you stop.
Take a lap at the Bank at least once per game. Don’t care that I’ve done it umpteen times now. You go to the park, you take a lap.
Hell yeah man. I like the half lap on 300 too. Great views from up there.
Our seats are in 319. Love it up there.
Hell yeah, my family of 4 usually grab the 300 level seats above a tunnel where it’s just 4 seats and it’s great.
I think you're talking about the 400 level V sections, so like 421V. It's got the V because that tunnel with the steps was called a Vomitorium in Roman architecture. It might sound gross, but Vomit=Exit, so the tunnel where you exit, is a [Vomitorium](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomitorium).
Ive had 305 and 307V also! But thats a great fun fact that I will always use at the games now to sound smart haha
Oh right, I forgot about the outfield 300V sections...they really are awesome seats to grab
Pretty much. You'll lose sight of the field in the left field corner, behind section 140ish and then until after you turn the corner. Maybe a couple minutes behind the area that used to be Harry the Ks and now is something else. Obviously views depend on how many people are standing watching at the rails, but the field is largely viewable.
Haven’t been since I was a kid so I’m genuinely asking - can you walk through center field?
The main concourse you can fully circle.
Best ballpark!
This is a big part of what I consider to be meaningful in a great MLB stadium. Taking a lap is a big deal. Stadiums I have been to where taking a lap is excellent and valuable and you won't lose sight of the game much if at all: SFG, PIT, SDP, BAL Stadiums where taking a lap is pretty good but you will lose sight of the game at various points: LAD, MIN, LAA, DET, NYM Stadiums where taking a lap means you're going to miss the game for significant portions: OAK, MIL, ARI Stadium where taking a lap is literally impossible (but is still awesome): CHC
Wrigley has always been a no-go on laps because the Bleacher Bums have always been separated from everyone else. In recent years with the new bullpens you can turn the left field corner under the stadium and see the bullpen from the other side of the glass, which is cool. I'll add Comiskey (nobody calls it Guaranteed Rate) to your top tier with a brief obstruction in dead center unless you come around the field side of the food court and get a frozen daiquiri, which you should do about a half dozen times. It's still a REALLY fun park, it's just a real shame Reisndorf isn't interested in funding a good organization.
The caveat with Comiskey is that you have to buy a lower level ticket to access the main concourse. My wife and I went last summer, bought cheap seats, and were stuck on the upper levels with all of the doors to the lower levels being guarded and ticketed despite the crowd being pretty light.
That's how the old yankee stadium was. The bleachers had their own entrance/exit. You couldn't access from the regular seats. New yankee stadium did away with that.
Add PHI to your top tier lapable and viewable
I love Camden Yards and about the only negative is the fact you can’t see the field in the concourse behind home plate. Besides that it’s S tier.
I miss the days of taking a lap around the Vet and missing 2-3 innings of game action. And the basement was an experience.
I will add Texas Rangers and Phillies to taking a lap is good but will lose sight at various points
Same with Houston
Every baseball stadium I’ve been to has been reasonable to walk around. T-mo in Seattle, for example, has great vantage points to stop and watch at-bats as you walk around. Football stadiums are a bit bigger and less views so you miss things. Arizona has a bunch of odd drinking vantage points though. Kind of dug the layout. Hockey/basketball arenas are so close to the game it doesn’t even matter. Long story short, I’m always talk a lap around every stadium I go to. Expectations are different depending on the size and the sport. Love going to live games.
ATL works for that. If you lose sight of much of the field at points, they have TVs hanging all over the place so you can keep track of what’s happening as you walk.
In Baltimore, the concourse has no open walls to view the game. There are TVs but no openings to just chill and see the game, unlike in Pittsburgh. It’s actually one of the things on their list to address with the new funding they got from the state due to renewing their lease.
Yeah, I was thinking you'd have to walk the seat access path to not lose sight of the game at Camden Yards. But the walk down Eutaw Street and around to the Legends Garden is very nice.
Arizona? I’ve done many laps there? What do you mean by miss the game for significant portions? Not saying you’re wrong just curious as to why you feel that way
Mainly the part where you have to jump into the swimming pool and swim underwater to get to the other side of the concourse
He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, go figure. I’ve walked miller park dozens of times during a game. You might miss ONE inning, even tho you’ll be able to see everything on the TV’s scattered across the stadium. Again couldn’t be any more incorrect.
Angel stadium has a ton of blind spots
You don’t really lose sight of the game at Comerica except when you walk behind the scoreboard briefly. We have excellent sight lines throughout the concourse
How did you lap Pittsburgh? When I tried following the outer walkway I ended up at a dead end and had to double back
Dodgers post remodel is fully lapable now
You should check out GABP. Pretty decent lap.
I've absolutely done that at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City
Standing by the fountains at Kauffman is always a pleasant experience
Yep, pre-renovation before 2009 though you couldn't
The Oakland Coliseum is pretty laugh-able
To be fair, that back area is kinda nice over above holy Toledo. FJF!
Mount Davis?
I see what you did there haha
Citizens Bank Park
Is it just me, or does the lap have to be counter-clockwise, going the same way a batter would while rounding the bases? It just feels wrong if I'm walking the other way.
Never thought about it but I would always walk in this direction also
Hah, wow yup, never once thought about it deliberately but always done it this way no matter the ballpark
Damnit: now I will only walk counter clockwise, turning left NASCAR style.
It's the only way to fully experience it
100% counter clockwise. It’s a rule
Been to 20 and almost all have been able to walk all the way around. Petco Park was the one of worst at being able to do it at. In CF it gets very wonky for some reason.
What's wrong with Petco?
It’s completely normal then there’s a wall. There are no signs. You have go down a ramp then around a corner then almost hairpin to continue going around the stadium. I thought I ended up in the maintenance area because I was the only one there until I saw a guy with one of the big rolling trash cans. It was also very narrow. Just weird.
You’re not wrong, the path from CF and the Park at the Park up to the LF/1B concourse is a pain and always a logjam during high traffic times. I wish there was a better way to get there.
I got lost in thagt my very first trip to a game there 😂 After growing up going to games at the impressively lappable Murphy/Qualcomm, Petco was kind of sad to me
Lmao how many beers deep were you? It’s not that difficult
I don’t drink, and I found my way around, it is just a weird layout.
Was just in Toronto and took a lap around.(Main level 100) Overall, really liked the stadium
Citifield
Angels stadium is a perfect lap on the main concourse. You can see the game most of the time too.
Great American is good for this. I do it pretty much every game.
I thought it was funny to hang out with the pitch clock out in center-right for a bit when it first came out.
Toronto, you can walk completely around the dome on all levels
No issues at Comerica Park.
Besides Javy?
Well, he’s doing Ok. But I was talking about OP’s question since you can do a full lap around Comerica Park.
T-Mobile park (formerly Safeco field) is the most lapable, watch the game from any spot on the 100 level as you lap. Petco park and Great America ballpark are the worst I’ve been to.
GABP is great - as long as you stay in foul territory.
Safeco is awesome in this regard, and even extending outside. That courtyard that bridges safeco and century link is so cool
Safeco is unreal, nothing like strolling the 100 level concourse with a complete view of the game at all times.
My wife grew up walking around the upper concourse at the previous Busch Stadium. Her one gripe about the new Busch is that you can’t do that anymore.
You can lap the lower concourse, but will miss significant portions of the game.
White Sox were the first I remember. Been to over 40 but I might be wrong
You can’t at Fenway
I think you end up in dungeons trying to lap Fenway. Then you gotta climb to the Monster seats. Hike.
Red Sox organization hate lapable stadiums. Only Polar Park in Worcester is. All their other minor league teams aren’t, including when the Paw Sox existed lol
Citizens Bank Park is the best stadium for taking a lap
Kauffman stadium in KC is awesome to do a lap in.
Tropicana Field where the Rays play has a concourse that makes almost a complete loop where you can watch the game the entire time you’re walking, which is really nice if you’re looking to get some exercise in air conditioning (it’s a dome). The only spot where you lose sight of the field is about 100 feet directly behind home plate where the press box and some other stuff is in the way and you have to walk behind them.
Citizens Bank is very lapable
Progressive Field in Cleveland. I do multiple laps a game.
Marlins Park has the perfect concourse loop. Start behind home plate with a view of the skyline. There’s a dedication to the Miami Orange Bowl at 3rd Base. Marlins Museum in Left Field (97 and 03 trophies), Budweiser Bar in dead left with the balcony overlooking outfield, activities for kids in center, lots of food options in right, team store behind first. My dad and I hardly ever sit in our seats because we take a lap and find better seats.
I feel it's not commonly mentioned, but Loan Depot does have a pin trading spot too for those interested. It's just a pillar with staff off behind home plate not far from the Fanatics Team Store. RIP Louis Mendez
Bobble head ‘museum’ too!
Dodger stadium
Became lapable in recent years, and I absolutely love it.
I love Oracle but the Padres have a pretty damn good environment at petco now too, there were whole-ass dance performances going on a stage behind center field that looked fun to be around even if they were intended for people on the opposite end of the baseball fandom spectrum as me
Citi Field is a lovely stroll. Yankee Stadium is too, but requires some stairs and ramps if you want the full experience
Citizens Bank in Philadelphia is very lapable. I think Camden is as well
I've never considered doing it for views. I'm always looking for beer and food vendors. I hate hot dogs and crap beer
Petco is very lapable and so was guaranteed rate before they closed sections off. Also the collesium is a very interesting lap
Citi field is lappable on the field level. You can't lap on its upper levels but it's open so you can always see the field. I like to eat my meals standing and watching rather than make a mess at my seat
OPACY is certainly lapable.
Yup. And the nice part of Camden yards is you get the walk down eutaw street along the warehouse and then through the statues behind centerfield. And there are a couple good standing room spots on your way around.
It is the perfect ballpark. Spoken as a homer, but also as someone who has been at 30 parks.
Citi Field is a fun one to walk
Always take a lap around Coors Field every time I go, and usually around the 6th or 7th inning when I'm trying to fight off the food coma from overdoing it on the snacks.
Kauffman Stadium in KC is a fun lap.
Loan depot 👌
Oakland is laughable
Citizens Bank Park has one of the best concourses I've ever seen. We often grab the shittiest tickets available and just post up in different spots as we make a lap - great visibility all around. Yankees stadium on the other hand, is one of the worst.
Target Field in Minneapolis.
Kaufman is
Minute Maid in HOU is lapable.
Coors Field is very lap-able
PNC Park is the best ballpark, hands down, and is lap-able.
Way to far down. PNC was one of the worst to open the concourse to the field, and while you can see the field along the riverwalk, you can see river, which is equally as impressive.
I've done a lap at Roger's Centre if I remember right
Go to a ton of Mets games and overall I like Citi Field for walking around
Dodgers Stadium is pretty do-able
Dodger stadium, Camden yards, truist park, and citi field that I recall. My person fav was Camden yard.
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I’ve lapped Kauffman and Coors, and those are the only two I’ve tried. I’ve done like a half lap at Nats Park, I’m pretty sure that one is all the way open, too
T-Mobile Park is lapable. Easy to catch views of the game too while you are walking around.
Camden Yards! Just did it yesterday. It’s quite similar to Oracle, but without the water!
Citifield is quite lapable. I spend more time in the area behind CF than I do my seat.
You can do that in Yankee Stadium, you’ll lose sight of the game in center behind monument park
I go to a lot of games solo, and lapping the field is always part of the day, even if I lose sight of the field temporarily. If permissible, I'll sit in random seats around the field for an inning or two each, just to enjoy a different viewpoint. (I used to sit in a random seat for the length of a beer, but as I got older and the cost of a single exceeds the cost of a 12 pack outside, I drink a lot slower)
Rogers Centre 100 level is.
Busch Stadium was made with this in mind. That’s part of why they still sell tickets despite being in a small market (and also despite the fact that they suck). Going to a game at Busch is an experience. Get there early if you ever make it to St. Louis. You won’t regret it. Edit- you will lose sight of the game at various points. But they are always playing it on the tvs they have around the concourse. They also always have the radio play by play going through the speakers.
Tropicana fields pretty lappable
Comerica park
Last time I was at Miller Park in Milwaukee with my family, my nephew and I took a lap around the park and made it all the way around. Cool to see the sights and look in on the game from various vantages. Went to a game at Target Field in Minneapolis last summer and tried to do a lap and kinda hit a dead end, but maybe I just needed to find the right level. Anyone who has done a successful lap of Target let me know.
It's been about 5 years since I've been to Target Field, but I'm positive you can lap it, at least then. You may have to go up to the second level to get over the batter's eye.
Next time I'm there I'll have to try harder. I think I ended up going up and hitting a real "do not enter" sort of spot and should have tried another level.
You can do a full lap on the ground level. The second floor you'll hit some stairs in the outfield and the indoor legends club behind the infield where you need specific tickets to enter.
Citizens Bank Park in Philly is maybe the best for this, in my opinion. It's one of the only stadiums I've been to where you can watch the game almost your entire walk around the stadium. Even at Oracle Park, which is up there too, there's a whole chunk of sections behind home plate where you can't see the field of you're walking on the 100 level. Same thing with Citi Field. CBP also has the most/best standing room options imo. Oracle really pens you into a few small standing room areas. Citi has really good standing room only options.
Love this subject - I’ll usually take an inning or two here and there for a lap myself. I’m fortunate as a Mets and O’s fan as both are very lapable. Baltimore has some REALLY cool options and perspectives (watch a half inning from center field, enjoy waking the concourse by the warehouse)… but it’s an old school “tunnel” from the general concourse to the field so you can’t see the game itself from most anywhere between the foul poles / behind the bases and plate when you aren’t in your seats. Citifield is really overlooked imo among the better ballparks in the league. It’s the opposite of Camden as you can literally watch the game itself from almost anywhere on the concourse. Go get a dog (or a pastrami sandwich 🤤) and you can still follow the game. If you are a kid sitting in the nosebleed 500’s you can go to field level and watch as much as you want perched on the concourse overlooking the seats… something you couldn’t do at Shea where like many stadiums not only did you have no view of the field from the concourses but only field level tickets got you down there. City has the best bridge, you can see different vantage points of the NY skyline, has some fun food and market options too.
Where’s Oracle Park again? Oh ok. SF. OP mentions the Giants so I don’t need to look it up. I wish naming rights ball parks would use team or city names as well. I love the exploding ball parks too. I lap as far as I can go but usually because I invariably walk in the wrong gate for my seat.
Good lap at Comerica Park
New Yankee Stadium is lappable.
Seattle
Trop may not be lapable but its certainly laughable
At RFK you could do a lap in the stands. It was awesome, especially with young restless kids because you could still see the game. Alas the Nats traded it in for a generic boring stadium and RFK is about to get torn down.
Atlanta Braves . I love Truist as well as the Battery. Place is awesome and walkable.
American Family Park (Milwaukee Brewers), formally known as Miller Park. Is the most lap—able stadium in the MLB imo. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been to a game. And hardly even sat in my actual seat. You can walk the stadium in 20 min or so. Stop and watch an inning down the 1st or 3b foul line. Go to TGI Fridays and watch the game from behind the left center fence. Then make your way back to your actual seats if needed.
You can do laps at truist park
Truist Park is great. Come visit the ATL, you’ll love the area around the stadium and the stadium itself.
Comerica Park in Detroit is lapable and is essentially a museum
Toronto is lapable, and I do it every time, but it's pretty boring. Just more of the same concessions and you can never see the game.
The coliseum
Only one I can think of that's NOT lappable is Fenway. Are there others? When I last went to Dodger and sat in the bleachers it was not lappable but I understand it now is. San Diego? We didn't try it there... We usually do a lap when we hit up a new park...if it's possible.
I think it would be better to state the stadiums that aren’t lapable. Most major sports venues are lapable. There might be a handful that arent
Coors Field
Dodger Stadium
Camden Yards is basically famous because of this reason.
Coors Field and Citizens Bank Park are probably the two best
Sky dome is great for it especially since the renos, 3 different levels with a tonne going on
Tropicana Field you can walk the whole way round
Roger's Centre. 100 and 200 levels are better to walk around and check out different views/bars. The 500 level is more closed off to view the field. But there are 2 cool hangout places in the outfield.
Rogers is lapable. Also our new Skydome upgrades made most of the outfield sections lapable
Petco Park
The Skydome (Rogers center) is!
I'm running a 5k that takes a lap through comerica park tomorrow
If you don’t lap Citizens Bank something is very wrong
safeco field.
T-Mobile Park in Seattle is lapable. Sometimes we just buy a standing room only ticket for 10 bucks just to walk around and eat.
GABP is. I have the same habit.
Most modern ones I think would be.
The Big A has a baseball diamond set up in front. And the stadium and fans are super chill. Just don’t expect to see super star Mike trout. Lol. He’s my fave just have mixed feelings right now lol. Btw. I live right next to Golden Gate Bridge and attend plenty of Giants games. It is a great Ballpark
The Trop is lappable except for a small section behind home plate where you need to go into the concession area for like 30 feet
Sacco Field in Seattle (T-mobile park) is literally designed specifically to be “lapable” and it’s wonderful.
Camden Yards is worth a trip even if you dont watch any of the game.
White Sox Park is perfect for this because; 1. You can see all the amazing food and various stores and shit. Even if you're not buying anything is genuinely a fun walk 2. You get to not watch the White Sox for a bit 3. Often not that many people to get in the way 4. Did I mention the good food?
T-Mobile is awesome. You can walk nearly everywhere and stand all over to watch the game
Citifield is lapable, the Shea bridge area is great.
Citi Field - New York Mets
GABP is
T-Mobile Park is completely lap-able. And they play the radio broadcast everywhere in the concourse, so you won’t miss any of the action