Where to Sit at Coors Field

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Sit third base at a night game unless you want the mountains, and if you want the mountains get up to the 300 level, because the lower bowl on that side is looking at a wall. The Rockpile is the cheap seat and it is brutal in July. The Rooftop has the $3 beers and the best view in the building, and you should allow at least thirty minutes before first pitch to get one.

The seating bowl

Coors Field’s bowl follows the standard MLB section-numbering convention.

The 100s are the lower bowl. Field-level boxes on the infield, outfield boxes wrapping the corners. This is where most of the season-ticket holders sit, and it is the closest and most expensive level in the park.

The 200s are the club and suite level. Indoor and outdoor club access in many sections, premium in-seat service, food included with some ticket types. The most comfortable seats in the park if budget isn’t the constraint.

The 300s are the upper deck. It runs from the left-field corner, around behind home plate, and out past the right-field corner, where sections 301 through 309, part of the Lower Rooftop Reserved seating, continue toward center field. Row 20 is the famous Mile High Row, where the green seats turn purple to mark the exact 5,280-foot elevation.

The 400s are the Rockpile in dead center field, sections 401, 402, and 403. Aluminum bleachers, no backrests, the cheapest seated tickets in the park.

There’s also the Rooftop, which is its own thing: a two-level deck at the top of the upper deck in right field. It is mostly standing room, its lower level holds the Lower Rooftop Reserved seats, including sections 301 through 309, and on some games a few more sections of first-come seats open up. Any ticketed guest can go up, regardless of where their seat is.

Sun, shade, and the mountain view

At a night game, sit on the third base side. The sun sets behind that side of the park, so the third base lower bowl falls into shadow first, and the seats down the first base line are the ones looking into the low sun early in the game. At a summer day game the sun stays high enough that neither side gets real shade, and the only cover comes from a deck or a roof directly above your seat. The back rows of the club level (234 through 247) are under the upper deck, and the back rows of the upper deck (332 through 347) are under the roof at the top of the stadium. The Rockpile has no cover at all. For your own date and start time, check the Bleacher Bound SunTracker before you buy.

First base side faces the Rocky Mountains, and on that side the view comes with height. Sit low and the stadium itself is between you and the range, so you pay the first base premium to look at a wall. Get up to the 300 level and you will see them. That is the seat people are actually describing when they tell you to sit first base for the mountains. From the third base side you still see the mountains, just not from your seat.

Best value sections

For visiting fans who want a meaningfully better view than the upper deck without paying premium-section prices, four groups of sections punch above their cost on the secondary market. None of these are the cheapest tickets in the park (the Rockpile and Rooftop SRO own that category), but they hit the best mix of view, proximity, and price for a typical visiting fan willing to spend a tier above the cheap-seat options.

• Right Field Box (sections 105 through 109). Lower-bowl right field. Close to the action and the Sandlot Brewery, and one of the better deals in the lower bowl for how close you sit. However, there is no cover overhead on a day game, and at a night game these are among the seats the setting sun looks straight into early in the game.
• Corner Outfield Box and Outfield Box (sections 110 through 117 on the first base side, 144 through 150 on the third base side). Lower-bowl outfield wrapping the corners, with Corner Outfield Box at 110 through 115 and 146 through 150 and Outfield Box at 116, 117, 144, and 145. The third base side stretch (144 through 150) is the safer pick at a night game, because the setting sun is at your back. The first base side stretch (110 through 117) takes that low sun early in the game, and it is too low for the mountain view.
• Midfield Box (sections 118 and 119 on the first base side, 142 and 143 on the third base side). Right where the infield dirt meets the outfield grass. Sightlines are noticeably better than the further-out outfield boxes for tracking pitches and infield play. Mid-tier price for what’s effectively a high-tier sightline.
• Lower Reserved Infield and Upper Reserved Infield (sections 321 through 340, from the first base side around behind home plate to the third base side). The upper-deck infield seats give you the full panoramic view of the park and the city without lower-bowl pricing. You are farther from the action, but for fans who care about the whole-park view as much as following the game, the upper-deck infield is one of the most underrated value tiers at Coors.

The Rockpile

The Rockpile is sections 401, 402, and 403 in dead center field. Aluminum bleachers, no backrests. The Rockpile started at Mile High Stadium before Coors opened. You can find more about where the Rockpile came from in our History section.

How to grab a Rockpile ticket

The Rockpile is one of two contenders for the cheapest seat in the park. The other is the Rooftop standing-room ticket, which on some games prices below the Rockpile and on others doesn’t. Check both on the secondary market before you commit if you’re optimizing purely on price.

On game day, for most home games, the Rockies also sell a limited number of Rockpile tickets at the Rockpile Ticket Office near Gate A, starting two hours before first pitch. They cost $4, or $1 for kids 12 and under and fans 55 and over. Everyone in your group has to be there when you buy, and you go straight into the park through Gate A. It’s not guaranteed for every game and the allotment can go when it is offered, so don’t build a trip around it. But if you have kids or a senior in your group and the timing works, it’s worth a stop at the Rockpile window by Gate A.

Don’t buy a Rockpile ticket planning to sit somewhere else

Ushers at Coors work the section entrances and they check, and they keep checking as the park fills up.

Getting down to a better seat can happen, but it is not a plan. If you are a local with a ticket every other week, getting turned around at a section gate costs you nothing and you try a different aisle or go do something else. If you flew to Denver for one game and the whole night depends on talking your way into a seat somebody else paid four times as much for, you have built your evening on a coin flip.

So treat the Rockpile as a legitimate cheap ticket with full run of the park. The concourse is open to anyone. You can walk the whole building on a Rockpile stub, get up to the Rooftop, swing through the Sandlot, take the photo at Mile High Row, and go back to your bleacher seat.

What the Rockpile is actually like in July

It is hot out there. We have sat in the Rockpile for a July day game and not lasted long, and we live here.

If the Rockpile is the cheapest way into the game, take it. Sit an inning or two. But have the escape planned before you need it, because the aluminum will make the decision for you:

• Go up to the Rooftop. There is open seating on the concourse up there and some shade.
• Stand on the concourse just above the lower bowl, under the overhang. This is the best of the three. You are close, you are covered, and if you care about the game and don’t mind standing, it is a good way to watch nine innings.
• Or just walk the park and find another patch of shade. Nobody is stopping you on the concourse.

Bring a towel to sit on. The view of the Denver skyline from those rows is one of the underrated visuals in the building, and you will enjoy it more from behind a towel.

The Rooftop

The Rooftop is mostly standing room. Make sure you know exactly where it is. It’s the top of the upper deck in right field, at the very top of the stadium on that side. It’s not the entire upper deck, and it’s not anywhere on the third base side. If you’ve got a ticket and you’re trying to find it, head toward right field and go up. If you’re confused, ask an usher or another fan. Denverites tend to be friendly about pointing visitors in the right direction.

The Rooftop is open to any ticketed guest in the park, regardless of where the seat on your ticket is. The mountain views are the best in the building, especially at sunset. Locals go up there too.

It matters even more for the $3 beer special than for the view.

The $3 beer window

The deal gets you a 12 oz domestic draft for $3, and a 16 oz craft beer for $6. Two beers per person 21 or older per purchase. If they run out of draft, they switch to 12 oz cans, still $3.

The deal has a time window. It runs from when the Rooftop opens (about two hours before first pitch) through scheduled first pitch. Once the scheduled first pitch hits, the price flips back to standard. A weather delay does not extend the deal.

The deal is honored at any Rooftop concession that pours domestic draft, including the food stands.

Give yourself thirty minutes

If you get the timing wrong, a good idea turns into a wasted twenty minutes.

Give yourself a minimum of thirty minutes before first pitch if you want a $3 beer. Ten minutes is how you end up in a beer line watching the top of the first on a concourse TV.

Count what actually has to happen. There is usually a line to get in the gate. Then you have to get your bearings. Then you have to cross the park to right field and climb to the very top of the building. Then you have to find the beer line. Then you have to stand in it, and that line gets longer every minute closer to first pitch, because everybody in the park is chasing the same window.

Thirty minutes covers that, and forty-five is comfortable. If you want the deck itself, and it is worth wanting, come when the Rooftop gates open two hours early and watch the light change over the range.

The timing cannot fix one thing. On a hot day the line is brutal and there is no way around it. Even the shortest line runs about thirty minutes on a hot Friday, so if the heat is on, paying the surcharge at a regular concourse vendor can beat burning an inning to save three bucks.

One rule if you are in that pre-first-pitch line: do not order a baseball bat beer. They take a while to pour, and everybody behind you is trying to beat the same cutoff. Get the bat later.

Later is the better trip anyway. Come back up to the Rooftop mid-game. The crowd thins, the beer line is gone, and you get the best view in the park without a hundred people at your shoulder. Go up in the 4th and take your time.

One last tip is that the Smashburger stand up there pours the same $3 beer, and its line is usually shorter than the bar lines.

Rooftop SRO tickets

A standing-room-only Rooftop ticket is its own ticket type, and it includes $6 in concession or merchandise credit, which covers two of the $3 beers. On a nice summer evening with a good opponent, the Rooftop SRO is a strong experience for the price if you don’t mind standing.

The Mile High Row

Row 20 of the upper deck is the purple Mile High Row, at 5,280 feet. For the photo with the purple line, the Denver skyline, and the Front Range in it, go to the upper deck on the first base side, where the mountains are in the background. Late afternoon to dusk is the light.

You don’t need a Mile High Row ticket to grab the shot. Walk up, take it, and head back to your seat. The walk from any 100s seat takes about ten minutes round-trip. If your seats are on the third base side and you don’t want to walk the entire upper deck, the row runs the length of the upper deck, so you’ll still get a clean photo of the row itself without the mountains. You can find more about the row in our History section.

How to find the right ticket

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