Stadiums visible from an interstate/highway?

Gamma Gobbler said:
Whew! What is the one by 75 used for? Track, middle school football?

Side bar. The Bluffton baseball/softball fields next to the 75 shoulder...do those belong to the HS? They got to be the closest thing to a major interstate of anything in the state, lol.
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Yes. That's a Village park, but the school uses those diamonds.
 
Kinda related, but when I got off the exit to get to the Harding-Perry basketball playoff game at the University of Akron, I saw the remains of the Rubber Bowl. The foundation was literally built into the bypass, so it was never officially torn down. Just filled in with dirt. I could see the stands plain as day.

Sad sight.
 
Worm02 said:
Kinda related, but when I got off the exit to get to the Harding-Perry basketball playoff game at the University of Akron, I saw the remains of the Rubber Bowl. The foundation was literally built into the bypass, so it was never officially torn down. Just filled in with dirt. I could see the stands plain as day.

Sad sight.
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Yes they could used it for high school football games if keep it and maybe host playoffs game there.
 
You can see Brunswick's stadium from I-71 a little bit in the distance. Light towers are easy to spot.
 
10404life said:
Yes they could used it for high school football games if keep it and maybe host playoffs game there.
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From the looks of it, it appears it decayed rapidly. Such a shame for what a great facility it once was. My brother & his friend saw Mooney win the State Championship over Warren Western Reserve there in 1973 in front of more than 30,000. Very surprising they didn't try to fix it before things got too bad.

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Even more shocking:

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White Field (Newark, OH)
Home of the Newark Wildcats
SR79 is directly to the West of the stadium.
 

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Sykotyk said:
And lastly, google maps of the two obvious examples I overlooked, Akron Archbishop Hoban and Canton McKi
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Sykotyk said:
And lastly, google maps of the two obvious examples I overlooked, Akron Archbishop Hoban and Canton McKinley:

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This was the view that I saw in 1967 that made me fall in love with this great game.
My dad and my uncle had taken me and my brother and cousins to Hoban to see the Knights beat the Firestone Falcons 42-7. I distinctly remember seeing the field from the westbound expressway ramp (that ramp has since been removed in the name of safety) with the stadium lights still going strong on the field as the stands had already emptied out
 
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Brooksie said:
This was the view that I saw in 1967 that made me fall in love with this great game.
My dad and my uncle had taken me and my brother and cousins to Hoban to see the Knights beat the Falcons 42-7. I distinctly remember seeing the field from the westbound expressway ramp (that ramp has since been removed in the name of safety) with the stadium lights still going strong on the field as the stands had already emptied out
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Somewhat tangential, but one of the side effects of doing stats and trying to get the final stats to the coach before leaving the press box has been getting to walk out of some very empty stadiums. There is something beautiful about an almost empty stadium after a hard fought game.
 
CedarBuck92 said:
Somewhat tangential, but one of the side effects of doing stats and trying to get the final stats to the coach before leaving the press box has been getting to walk out of some very empty stadiums. There is something beautiful about an almost empty stadium after a hard fought game.
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I hear ya brother
 
Along I-71 there is the CIncinnati Hills Christian Academy field. It does have a lot of trees shielding it so the press box is really the only visible piece from the hi-way.
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KingHorn419 said:
For Northwest Ohioans

I-75
Findlay
Perrysburg
*Cory-Rawson (You can see the school building and the stadium is directly behind it)

I-280
Northwood
Lake
*Toledo Waite (if you know where to look)

I-80/90 (Turnpike)
None

US RT 20
*Monroeville (Just the lights)
*Delta (On RT 20A)

US RT 23
Marion Harding
*Upper Sandusky (You can technically see it but it is very far away)
Carey

US RT 24
Toledo Bowsher
Napoleon
Antwerp

US RT 30
*Upper Sandusky (You can technically see it but it is very far away)
Wynford

US 224
Willard
Seneca East
Findlay

US RT 6
Napoleon
Huron

US 127
Wayne Trace
Paulding (Look east down Miles Street)
Fairview
Hilltop
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I'm not sure if 66 that runs thru NB and Minster counts but you can see Minster's stadium from 66.
 
oxat622 said:
Wondering if y’all are like me and rubberneck like a tourist every time you pass a stadium on the highway. I know in Cincinnati you can see Princeton and Lakota East from I-75 and you can see Walnut Hills and CHCA from I-71. If the leaves have fallen, you can see the new Sycamore from 275.

You ever pass a stadium on a road trip and look up who the best player was that came through that school?
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Also look at the orientation of the field. Most fields run North/South but some older fields run east/west. In my dads day (30's), games were played on Saturday afternoons without lights. The sun did not come into play back then. Princeton is an example of a east/west field.
 
Mogadore Memorial Stadium runs northwest to southeast. It also was one of first high schools in local area to have lights. Many county schools prior to their respective consolidations would come play Saturday night games at Mogadore. Schools like Atwater, Randolph ( now Waterloo), Suffield, now Field ( consolidated with Brimfield, who's students attended either Kent State high school or Suffield). My friends and I would go down to watch these " farm schools"!
 
oxat622 said:
Wondering if y’all are like me and rubberneck like a tourist every time you pass a stadium on the highway. I know in Cincinnati you can see Princeton and Lakota East from I-75 and you can see Walnut Hills and CHCA from I-71. If the leaves have fallen, you can see the new Sycamore from 275.

You ever pass a stadium on a road trip and look up who the best player was that came through that school?
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Having coached at CHCA this made me smile
 
I don't know if this was mentioned before, but Nordonia's Boliantz Stadium is visible from Ohio 8. Not sure if you can see it from I-271.
Prior to 2010, if you drove 271 North and exited at route 8, you came right up on the stadium's end zone scoreboard.
 
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