The Orioles park at Camden Yards, which is the only baseball-only facility in downtown Baltimore, became the official home of the Baltimore Orioles on April 6, 1992. The stadium takes up a massive 85-acre parcel and it took 33 months to complete the beautiful ballpark. The ballpark seats 48,876 people, and it took $110 million dollars to build Camden Yards. The structure was designed by the Kansas City architectural firm. Oriole Park is state-of-the-art, but yet it is unique, traditional and intimate in design. It naturally blends with the urban context of downtown Baltimore.

The ballpark is natural turf grass, it has a gentle slope of the upper deck, and an asymmetrical playing field. Those are just some of the features that tie it to those magnificent big league ballparks built in the early 1900’s. The deepest point in the field is just to the left of center field, which is 410 ft. It is 15 ft. shorter from home plate to the right field corner than down the left field line, but that difference is compensated by a 25 ft. high wall which extends 100 ft. from the right field line toward center. The fence in the rest of the park is only 7 ft. high.