Recreation Park

About Recreation Park

Recreation Park was an MLB stadium in Detroit, Michigan. It opened in 1881 and closed in 1894. Its only tenant was Detroit Wolverines (MLB, 1881–1888). On our ranked lists it ranks 43rd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years.

Appears in

• 43rd shortest-lived of 273 stadiums and arenas with known opening and closing years
• 26th shortest-lived of 83 MLB stadiums with known opening and closing years
• 88th longest single tenancy (7 years) of the 100 longest on record in MLB stadiums

Venue Information

Location derived from the venue's coordinates using data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence (ODbL).

Elevation of the venue's coordinates from USGS and NASA SRTM elevation data, via Open Topo Data.

The site today

• The site is now occupied by Children's Hospital of Michigan.

From OpenStreetMap data near the venue's recorded coordinates, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Maps show what is there now, not the old footprint.

Teams

Records are each team's full-season results while it was based here, home and away games alike, from final scores. They are not records of games played at this venue.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources

Where the facts on this page were read from. How VenueStats compiles them.

• Open Topo Data (Public domain): Elevation.
• OpenStreetMap (ODbL): What stands on the site today.
• OpenStreetMap Nominatim (ODbL): Location.
• VenueStats compilation: Opening and closing years, name history and teams (compiled by VenueStats from Sports Reference and Wikipedia).
• Wikidata (CC0): Coordinates (Wikidata places the building within 48 m of this point).