Fields Of Dreams: Chukchansi Park, Fresno, California

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Chukchansi Park is the abode of the Fresno Grizzlies, the AAA affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. Opened inward 2002, it’s a downtown green designed yesteryear HOK Architects, the same theatre that designed such major league parks every bit Camden Yards inward Baltimore. The refer comes from a nearby Indian tribe who bought the naming rights to promote their casino.

Usually a contender, this yr the Grizzlies are dead last, 8 games behind the Tucson Padres.


Here are the stats…

Year opened: 2002
Surface: Grass
Construction cost: $46 million
Capacity: 12,500
Field dimensions: Left champaign – 324 ft.; Center champaign – 402 ft.; Right champaign – 335 ft.
Home teams: Fresno Grizzlies (Pacific Coast League, AAA) 2002 –present; Fresno Fuego (USL Premiere Development League – soccer) 2007-present
Events attended: 1 game


This is 1 of those small-scale league parks that looks nigh similar a major league park. Sitting only westward of Fresno’s downtown, it’s in all probability the best looking construction around. It has a non bad thought of downtown but generally of the buildings backsides.

The seating bowl consists of 2 decks, amongst some other marker of suites to a higher house that. On the starting fourth dimension base of operations side, the upper deck is a lodge amongst individual seating. The green entrances come upwardly into the concourse marker at the transcend of the champaign deck. This is where you’ll uncovering most of the wheelchair accessible seating. There is also accessible seating inward the upper deck together with inward the inexpensive seats inward left field. Ticket prices run from $8 to $24. You volition pay a brace of dollars to a greater extent than if you lot purchase at the game. The best wheelchair seats, correct behind abode plate, are the $17 or $19 (depending on if you lot purchase them inward advance) dollar tickets. You tin also sit down inward that individual department along the starting fourth dimension baseline inward the upper deck for $40, $50 on premium nights.

If you lot accept a large group, there’s a puddle together with spa surface area you lot tin rent out inward middle champaign starting at $35-40 per soul (it also includes your food). There is also a plaza behind abode plate that features a carousel for kids.

We had no occupation only walking upwardly to the ticket window together with purchasing 3 tickets (one wheelchair, 2 companions) straight behind abode plate for the Independence Day game amongst post service game fireworks.

There are no bad seats hither together with the game views are excellent. Food choices are generally the regular ballpark fare consisting of hot dogs, pizza, together with burgers. Beer selection is rather pedestrian likewise amongst the most premium brew on tap beingness Tecate, but it is non expensive.

Very express accessible autobus service is provided yesteryear Fresno Area Express (FAX) amongst the downtown circulator trolley, which stops running at roughly game time, together with the 38 bus, which runs slowly plenty on weeknights but non on weekends. There are vast parking lots across the street on the 3rd base of operations side.



A good, competent ballpark…not a gem…but definitely a fun house to sentinel a ball game.


 Darryl
Copyright 2010 – Darryl Musick
Updated for 2013

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