Oriole Park at Camden Yards

333 W Camden St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA

Address:	333 W Camden St, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Phone:	+1 410-685-9800
Site:	baltimore.orioles.mlb.com
Rating:	4.8

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Jim Considine

Oriole Park at Camden Yards will celebrate its 25th season as the home of the Baltimore Orioles in 2017. While many of the stadiums that are of similar age are either doing a major upgrade or in some cases, the owners are looking for greener pastures, Oriole Park at Camden Yards remains one of the best baseball only parks in the country. OPCY was the first "retro" inspired, new ballpark in the USA. Baseball parks from sea to shining sea have borrowed, copied or emulated OPCY with a similar "retro" inspiration. This concept was created (for the most part) by three baseball fans. Janet Marie Smith was in charge of the creating of the first new site development for a baseball stadium since 1914. Her thoughts were merged with another visionary, former president of the Baltimore Orioles Larry Lucchino. Few people remember the third person, but it was the recalcitrant former owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Eli Jacobs. His was the loudest voice of the three. Jacobs is a baseball purest who kept the vision on track. Since its opening, Luchino and Smith moved on to tackle one of the five classic gems of American baseball parks. They took on the task of turning Bostons Fenway Park into a park that serves the fans, players and revenue stream in a fashion that is in keeping with a place like OPCY. Smith and Lucchinos first masterpiece was creating the Monster seats. Creative solutions and effective use of limited space have givens Fenway Park a new lease for the future. The other four stadiums are Tiger Stadium, which was claimed by the wrecking ball, Yankee Stadium where a new stadium was built from plastic and mink in the image and likeness of the original house of Ruthian clouts. Wrigley Field, which is one year the junior of Fenway Park has been given a makeover that is amazing. Finally, The "Jetsons" look has been preserved as Janet Marie Smith is now the spirit of the new Dodgers blue.Today, 18 of the 29 baseball teams have incorporated the retro ballpark concept into their new stadium. As we enter our 25th year, 26 of the 29 baseball parks have been built from scratch or have had a major facelift and modernization, and rebuilding efforts. The other three were built and opened within 3 years of OPCY. (Rogers Centre 1989, Tropicana Field 1990, Cellular Field 1991). Finally, a stadium that is not maintained properly and is allowed to grow irrelevant to the community like FedEx Field will not last another 10 years despite opening only 18 years ago. The Angelos family who own the Baltimore Orioles and are the beneficiaries of OPCY have put blood, sweat, toil, and treasure into the upkeep of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The Angelos family are the 4th leg of the jewel of Baltimore city.

Richard Legendre

Its the Crown Jewel of Major League Baseball Stadiums that almost all ballparks built afterwards have followed. So, of course its great. But at 25 years old? Yes, its still great, it hasnt lost the magic that made it great. The Orioles and Maryland Stadium Authority have done a great job with up keep. Replacing the entire seating bowls a few off seasons ago and adding a centerfield rooftop bar next to the JumboTron. You still get the great views of downtown if on the third base side of homeplate (on the first base side you get a huge ugly hotel). You still have the great fair like atmosphere of Eutaw street, with the field on one side and the warehouse on the other, vendors on both sides of you, with Boogs BBQ smelling and tasting as great as always. Its such a fun experience walking down this area during a game, especially a night game! Have kids? They have a fun area in right field with a bounce house, playground, pitching and hitting areas for kids. Its a lot of fun and lets the kids run around and get tired so theyll sit in their seat for a few innings. One of the greatest things about the Orioles and Camden Yards is that you can bring in your own food and drinks (no alcohol). Just have you drinks be in sealed plastic bottles and you can bring them in. But a hot dog outside and bring it in. Or go to the Brooks Robinson Plaza (on the northwest side of the park) for grilled burgers, hot dogs, sausages, etc. Or go down to the Harbor and bring it all in! Although tickets are expensive, this saves you money! The Orioles also have discounted tickets on Tuesday nights and have an Orioles kids club that gives free tickets to the kids and $6 for their parents. So, there are ways to save. But still expensive to take your family. Having been to a few other stadiums (Boston, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, DC), I still feel Camden Yards is the best. I know there is a lot of history at Fenway, and its awesome for that, love the green monster, otherwise is cramp dump of a ballpark. DC is nice and I love the open concourse, but no character like Camden Yards. I hear Pittsburgh is great, and I hope to go to a game there soon. But, once again, modeled after Camden. Go to the original, it is still among the best in baseball, best Ive been to!

Brittany Leigh

Great game! Food for kids at Dempseys wasnt great. Not worth $90.00 for 3 kids and one adult. Concession stand staff was awesome. The person who lead us to our seat, top notch! The person who directed us to the wrong area to run the bases, horrible! Especially because I had my boyfriend whom has ALS. We were seated in section 58. Was told to move over to section 54 and to take a seat. Went to 54 got my PALS (Person with ALS) situated. Then went to the dugout area to then be told we were in the wrong area that we had to go outside. Went outside. Then, while in line was told we were in the wrong line which was the whole stadium by this point. I explained our situation. That my boyfriend has ALS and cannot even urinate on his own. I cannot wait the promised "less than an hour" without seeing him. The guy directed me to the woman to ask her. Again, I explained my situation. She then says sorry but I cant let you but in front of thousands of people. The fans were rolling their eyes as if I were just trying to get away with not waiting like everyone else. If the handicapped were allowed to leave first before all the completely functioning persons we wouldve been first in line. Especially if we were told the right place the first time. We were first in line to get into the park. We paid A LOT of money to just be ripped off of our time. Horrible horrible horrible experience. Will NEVER return to the stadium EVER again. They couldnt ever possibly make up for this. Being all three of the childrens and myself FIRST Os game... That could never be redone! So disappointed!

Mari S

We have been to 15 different MLB parks in the last 6 years and Camden Yards is by far my favorite modern ballpark (Wrigley is my favorite old style park). Our family is fans of the Mets and Pirates, but we try to catch a Os game at Camden Yards whenever we can (the Os are our favorite AL team). The park might be 25 years old this year but there is still something special walking on Eutaw Street at the stadium. Boogs BBQ is my go to food place since the smoked turkey and pork is incredible! Boog Powell is often there greeting fans. You can score reasonably priced hot dogs at O What a Dog for the kids (or adults). The regular sized hot dogs were like $1.50 (whereas the Giant ones run about $4.50-$5 in the park). Compared to the prices at some of the other parks we have been to, the concession and beer prices were about $1 less than many of the other parks. We usually go to the Os games when they are playing the Mets or Pirates and half our family cheers for the opposing team (and 1/2 for the Os). We have NEVER had any issue with visiting this great park in opposing team clothes. The only remarks/jokes we will get is when fans or ushers will ask "why did you let that happen" and point to the rest of the family in opposing fan clothes and we all laugh. The fans are really respectful and it is truly a family friendly environment.