Former Sports Venues Still Standing
Not every lost venue was torn down. Some buildings survive as concert halls, churches or storage, and some parks survive in part as a smaller field or a single structure.
Status labels distinguish a building that still stands from one that is partially demolished. Visit respectfully and follow local rules: some of these sites are private property.
56 venues
Aloha Stadium
Aloha Stadium was Hawaii's largest stadium, home of University of Hawaii football and the NFL Pro Bowl. Closed to fans in 2020, it is being demolished in 2026 for a smaller replacement.
Altamont Raceway Park
Altamont Raceway Park was a half-mile oval near Tracy, California, that ran NASCAR regional and weekly racing from 1966 to 2008. It is best known as the site of the 1969 Altamont Free Concert.
Auto Club Speedway
Auto Club Speedway was a two-mile superspeedway in Fontana, California, that hosted NASCAR and Indy car racing from 1997 to 2023. Most of its land has since been sold for warehouse development.
Birmingham Race Course
Birmingham Race Course opened as a thoroughbred track in 1987, added greyhounds in 1992 and ran only greyhounds from 1995 until its last live race on March 18, 2020. The building continues as a casino.
Bluffs Run Greyhound Park
Bluffs Run Greyhound Park in Council Bluffs, Iowa, raced greyhounds from February 1986 until December 2015. The property continues as the Horseshoe Council Bluffs casino.
Bowie Race Track
Bowie Race Track in Prince George's County, Maryland, raced Thoroughbreds from 1914 to 1985 and pioneered winter racing in the 1950s. The grounds were later used as a training center.
Braves Field
Braves Field was the Boston Braves' ballpark on Commonwealth Avenue from 1915 to 1952. After the team left, Boston University bought it, and part of the old structure survives inside the university's Nickerson Field.
Bush Stadium
Bush Stadium, opened in 1931 as Perry Stadium, was the Indianapolis Indians' home until 1996. It was partly demolished and turned into the Stadium Lofts apartments in 2013.
Calder Race Course
Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida, ran Thoroughbreds from 1971 until its last race in November 2020, latterly as Gulfstream Park West. Its grandstand was demolished in 2016, and a casino remains on the property.
Cobo Arena
Cobo Arena was the 12,000-seat arena attached to Detroit's Cobo convention center and home of the Detroit Pistons from 1961 to 1978. It closed in 2010 and its space became a ballroom.
Coeur d'Alene Greyhound Park
Coeur d'Alene Greyhound Park in Post Falls, Idaho, opened in 1988 and ended regular live greyhound racing in December 1995 after heavy losses. The building is now an event center.
Columbia Speedway
Columbia Speedway in Cayce, South Carolina, hosted NASCAR's top series from 1951 to 1971, mostly on dirt. The property is now an events facility.
Denver Auditorium Arena
The Denver Auditorium Arena hosted the 1908 Democratic National Convention and was home of Denver's NBA and ABA basketball teams. The arena portion was demolished in 1990.
Derby Lane
Derby Lane in St. Petersburg, Florida, ran greyhound races from January 1925 until December 2020, when Florida's Amendment 13 ban took effect. The building continued as a simulcast and poker venue.
Dorais Velodrome
Dorais Velodrome in Detroit was a 325-meter concrete cycling track that opened in July 1969 and held races until about 1989. It now stands abandoned.
Douglas Park (Rock Island)
Douglas Park in Rock Island, Illinois, was home to the Rock Island Independents, a charter NFL team, from 1907 through 1925. The ballpark survives and is used for youth and American Legion baseball.
Dubuque Greyhound Park
Dubuque Greyhound Park opened in June 1985 as Iowa's first pari-mutuel track and ran greyhounds until May 2022. The building continues as Q Casino.
Engel Stadium
Engel Stadium in Chattanooga was home to the Lookouts from 1930 to 1999, where Jackie Mitchell struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in 1931; UTC announced in 2025 that it will be torn down.
Flagler Dog Track
Flagler Dog Track in Miami raced greyhounds from 1932 until 2018, after state regulators let its owner swap dog racing for jai-alai. The property operates as Magic City Casino.
Grand Olympic Auditorium
The Grand Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles was the city's principal boxing and wrestling hall from 1925 and hosted Olympic events in 1932. Sold in 2005, it still stands as a Korean-American church.
Hamtramck Stadium
Hamtramck Stadium was built in 1930 for Detroit's Negro league teams and is one of the few surviving Negro league ballparks. It has been restored for community baseball.
Hank Aaron Stadium
Hank Aaron Stadium in Mobile, Alabama was home to the Double-A Mobile BayBears from 1997 to 2019 and closed after its last events in 2021.
Havre de Grace Racetrack
Havre de Grace Racetrack in northeastern Maryland hosted Thoroughbred racing from 1912 to 1950. The Maryland National Guard now uses the site and some old buildings.
Herndon Stadium
Herndon Stadium at Morris Brown College in Atlanta opened in 1948 and hosted field hockey at the 1996 Summer Olympics. It was later abandoned and stands gutted by vandals.
Hoch Auditorium
Hoch Auditorium was the University of Kansas basketball home until Allen Fieldhouse opened in 1955. Gutted by fire in 1991, it was rebuilt behind its facade as Budig Hall.
Hollywood Greyhound Track
The Hollywood Kennel Club opened in Hallandale Beach, Florida, in December 1934 and later became Hollywood Greyhound Track and Mardi Gras Casino. Live racing ended on May 5, 2018, and the building is now the Big Easy Casino.
Hollywood Legion Stadium
Hollywood Legion Stadium, run by American Legion Post 43, was Hollywood's boxing and wrestling arena from the early 1920s until 1959. The 1938 building survives as a gym.
Joe W. Davis Stadium
Joe W. Davis Stadium was Huntsville's minor-league ballpark from 1985 to 2015 and was rebuilt as a soccer stadium that reopened in 2023.
John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum
The John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum was LSU's basketball arena from 1937 to 1971. It still stands and hosts livestock shows and rodeos.
Lakewood Speedway
A one-mile dirt oval at Atlanta's Lakewood fairgrounds, raced from 1917 to 1979 and known as the Indianapolis of the South, whose site is now partly covered by Lakewood Amphitheatre's parking.
League Park
League Park, at East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue, was Cleveland's major league ballpark from 1891 and the Indians' main home until 1946. Part of it survives in a city park that reopened in 2014.
McArthur Court
McArthur Court was the University of Oregon's basketball arena from 1927 until Matthew Knight Arena replaced it in 2011. The building still stands and is used for other campus purposes.
Meadowlands Arena
The Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford was home to the NBA's Nets and the NHL's Devils for about three decades. It closed to public events in 2015 and has since been used as a rehearsal hall and film stage.
Mid-South Coliseum
The Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis was home to the city's ABA franchise and Memphis State basketball. It closed in 2006 and still stands, vacant.
Middle Georgia Raceway
Middle Georgia Raceway was a half-mile paved oval in Byron, Georgia, that held NASCAR Grand National races from 1966 to 1971 and closed in the mid-1980s. It is also remembered for the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival held beside it.
Mobile Greyhound Park
Mobile Greyhound Park in Theodore, Alabama, opened in 1973 and ended live racing on August 19, 2017. Simulcast and electronic betting continued at the facility.
Narragansett Park
Narragansett Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, raced Thoroughbreds from 1934 to 1978. Its grandstand survives in part on the former grounds.
Nazareth Speedway
A Lehigh Valley racing site, associated with the Andretti family, whose paved one-mile oval hosted CART, IRL and NASCAR Busch racing from 1987 until International Speedway Corporation closed it in 2004.
New Orleans Municipal Auditorium
New Orleans Municipal Auditorium, opened in 1930 next to Congo Square, hosted the ABA Buccaneers, the NBA's New Orleans Jazz and ECHL hockey. It has stood abandoned since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Occoneechee Speedway
Occoneechee Speedway was a dirt track in Hillsborough, North Carolina, that hosted NASCAR from its first season in 1949 until 1968. The abandoned oval survives in the woods as a historic trail site.
Orange Park Kennel Club
The Orange Park Kennel Club near Jacksonville raced greyhounds from 1946 until December 2020, the last track in Northeast Florida to do so. It continues as a bestbet gaming venue.
Palm Beach Kennel Club
Palm Beach Kennel Club in West Palm Beach opened in 1932 and staged Florida's final greyhound races on December 31, 2020. Most of its land was sold in 2026 for a residential and retail development.
Parkway Field
Parkway Field was the American Association Louisville Colonels' ballpark from 1923 to 1956 and later a University of Louisville field. Its grandstand was razed in 1961, and the grounds are now intramural fields.
Raynham-Taunton Greyhound Park
Raynham-Taunton Greyhound Park in Raynham, Massachusetts, raced greyhounds from 1940 until a statewide ballot ban ended live racing in December 2009. The building remains in use for simulcast betting.
Ridgewood Grove
Ridgewood Grove was a 4,000-seat boxing and wrestling arena at the Brooklyn-Queens line from 1926 to 1956, with a brief 1980s revival. The building survives with other uses.
Sam Boyd Stadium
Sam Boyd Stadium was UNLV's football stadium and home of the Las Vegas Bowl from 1971 to 2019. Closed since 2020, it stands largely unused after UNLV moved to Allegiant Stadium.
Seabrook Greyhound Park
Seabrook Greyhound Park on New Hampshire's Seacoast opened in July 1973 and ended live greyhound racing in 2009. The building now operates as The Brook casino.
Southland Greyhound Park
Southland in West Memphis, Arkansas, raced greyhounds from 1956 until December 31, 2022. It now operates as a full casino.
St. John Arena
St. John Arena was Ohio State's basketball home from 1956 to 1998. It still stands and is used by Ohio State track and field and the marching band.
Suffolk Downs
Boston's Thoroughbred track from 1935 to 2019, famed for Seabiscuit and a 1966 Beatles concert, now being redeveloped into a large housing and office district while the oval serves as a public track.
The Forum
The Forum in Inglewood was home to the Lakers and Kings from 1967 to 1999. The building still stands and operates as the Kia Forum, a concert and events arena.
The Summit
The Summit, later Compaq Center, was the Houston Rockets' arena from 1975 to 2003. The building was converted into Lakewood Church's main campus in 2005.
Tournament Park
Tournament Park in Pasadena hosted the first Rose Bowl Game in 1902 and the games of 1916-1922 before the Rose Bowl stadium opened. The site is now Caltech's track and field venue.
US 30 Drag Strip
US 30 Drag Strip in Hobart, Indiana, was an AHRA flagship drag strip that operated from at least 1957 until the end of the 1984 season. Parts of the strip and its buildings remained in 2001.
Uline Arena
Uline Arena, later the Washington Coliseum, was home to the BAA/NBA Washington Capitols and the site of the Beatles' first U.S. concert. The building survives as an REI store.
VictoryLand
VictoryLand in Shorter, Alabama, raced greyhounds from September 1984 until May 2011. The property continues as a casino with simulcast wagering.