Surprise Recreation Campus
33°37′44″N 112°22′39″W / 33.628931°N 112.377431°W The Surprise Recreation Campus is an athletic facility based in Surprise, Arizona, built in 2002. Its amenities include Surprise Stadium (the spring training home of Major League Baseball's Kansas City Royals and Texas Rangers), twelve baseball fields (six lighted) and Mark Coronado Park, an 8-acre (32,000 m2) multipurpose field (lighted).[1]
The facility at one time played host to an independent professional baseball team, the Golden Baseball League's Surprise Fightin' Falcons, and a minor league baseball team, the Surprise Rafters of the Arizona Fall League. The stadium is now home of the Surprise Saguaros.[2]
The recreation campus hosts an annual Christmas event, Sparkling Surprise, that features food trucks, hot air balloons, sky divers, vendors and live music.[3]
In 2023, the campus hosted the Bases and Brews Music Festival to mark the end of the year’s Cactus League spring training.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Surprise, AZ website Parks & Recreation page
- ^ "Surprise Saguaros | Arizona Fall League". MLB.com. Retrieved 2024-10-13.
- ^ "Sparking Surprise". Surpriseaz.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
- ^ "Information". Bases and Brews Festival. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
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