Spurgeon Field

The original home of the Triple A Colorado Springs Sky Sox when the team return to the city in 1988, Spurgeon Field will serve as the home for the University of Colorado Colorado Springs for the inaugural season in 2017. Owned and operated by the City of Colorado Springs, the facility is the showcase field for the city’s parks and recreation department and has the largest seating capacity among the venues at Memorial Park.

The Sky Sox played in the facility in 1950 when the team was affiliated with the Chicago White Sox, and the team returned in 1988 from Hawaii as an affiliate with the Cleveland Indians. The team eventually moved to Security Service Field in northeast Colorado Springs, where UCCS will finish the regular season in a single, nine-inning game with NCAA Division I Air Force on May 2.

The field is part of the larger amenities provided in Memorial Park, which features the 7-Eleven Velodrome, the state’s second-largest skate park and the Sertich Ice Center. The park hosts the Labor Day Lift Off balloon festival and the Pikes Peak Celtic Festival.

The park includes Prospect Lake for swimming, boating and fishing, on land that was donated by Colorado Springs founder General William Jackson Palmer. The park also honors heroes with the International Association of Fire Fighters’ Fallen Fire Fighter Memorial and the Veterans Memorial for each branch of military service.

Directions:
From the UCCS campus, head east on Austin Bluffs Parkway and take the Union Boulevard exit. Take a right for southbound Union, and remain on Union to Pikes Peak Avenue. Take a right onto Pikes Peak Avenue, and then the next available left onto Farragut Avenue. At the stop sign, take a right onto Sports Drive. Parking lots are on the left (south) side of Sports Drive, and the field is closest to the west.