Desert Sun Stadium

Desert Sun Stadium is a stadium in Yuma, Arizona, built for baseball and since converted for soccer. It was constructed for the 1970 spring training season, funded by a 2 per cent hospitality tax and $100,000 in bonds, and the first game was played on 6 March 1970, with the Arizona governor Jack Williams throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. It was the spring training home of the San Diego Padres from 1970 to 1993, and later hosted the Yuma Scorpions of the North American League, the Arizona Winter League and the Arizona Summer League. The stadium was expanded in 1984 and converted to a soccer ground in 2015 by OneGoal LLC, which paid the $15,000 conversion fee; Frontera United played there from 2015 to 2017. It serves as the main field of the Ray Kroc Baseball Complex.

Where it is

Desert Sun Stadium is a landmark near Yuma, in Yuma County. It is one of the landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Desert Sun Stadium, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Mentioned in

• Arizona's spring training ballparks produce the sharpest seasonal spike in the database — Readership of Sloan Park runs 3.8 times its annual average in March, the largest seasonal peak measured across 467 Arizona attractions.

Sources

• Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
• Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
• County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates

Record last verified 2026-08-12.