Canvas Stadium
Fort Collins, CO - Stadium

Canvas Stadium at Colorado State University is the newest and most exclusive venue in Northern Colorado. The on-campus stadium at Colorado State University opened in the summer of 2017 and brought Rams football games back to campus for the first time in 50 years, providing countless new engagement opportunities for the entire university. The stadium's design embraces Colorado's natural beauty, topography, and visual connections to the Rocky Mountains from campus and ensures functionality for both game-day and non-game day usage.
Venue Snapshot
Spectra Divisions

Contact
Location
751 West Pitkin St
Fort Collins, CO 80523
Services Provided
- Spectra Food Services & Hospitality
Stadium Facts
- Capacity: 41,000, with seating for 36,500
- Premium Seating: 23 private suites, 884 club seats, and 224 loge box seats
- Student Seating: 10,000 seats on the east side lower bowl
- Hall of Champions: Located on the west side at the main entry, the 6,300-square-foot space features displays of Colorado State's rich athletics history, and leads into the OCR Field Club
- Sports Medicine: Sports medicine offices, taping area, nutrition area, and hydrotherapy space complete with 4 plunge pools
- Meeting Rooms: 150 seat theater-style team meeting room with position meeting rooms in the same hallway
- Offices: Office space for football staff
- Player/Recruit Lounge: 3,700 square feet of custom space provides student-athletes space to gather
- Field: Sonny Lubick Field is a Synthetic PowerBlade Pro System playing surface manufactured by Shaw Sports Turf
- Total Gross Square Footage: 727,000, 644,132” Stadium, 23,144" Michael Smith Alumni Center, 59,831” Academic space
- Total Area: 17.56 acres on the CSU campus
- Building Height: 123 feet at highest point
Notable Events & Accomplishments
Notable Events Include
- In the stadium's grand-opening game on Aug. 26, 2017, the Rams defeated Oregon State, 58-27, before a sellout crowd of 37,583, the third-largest crowd in school history. For the season the Rams set an all-time attendance record with a total of 192,369.
- Sold out October 2016.
Notable Venue Information
- Materials: Colorado sandstone, metal panel, and glass make up the primary material palette, tying into the existing architecture on campus, majority of materials come from locations within 500 miles of the stadium site.
- Videoboard & Ribbon Boards: The mainboard measures 50.5'x84' (4,242 square feet), the largest in the MW and along the Front Range, nearly the size of a basketball court.1,270 feet of ribbon board around the stadium will display in-game stats, sponsor elements, out-of-town scores, and other visual elements to enhance the fan experience.
- Football Operations: CSU's football operations are incorporated into the building, with the following included: Weight Room: 9,100-square-foot weight room, with accessibility and views in from the player and recruit lounges and the football administration offices.