COLUMBUS CLINGSTONES
Synovus Park
Synovus Park opened in 2025 as the most extensively renovated stadium in recent Southern League history — built on the site of Golden Park (1926). Columbus, Georgia is a Chattahoochee River city on the Alabama border, home to Fort Benning (now Fort Moore). The Clingstones name references the Elberta peach — Georgia's defining agricultural product.
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Architecture & History
Synovus Park opened in 2025 as the brand-new home of the Columbus Clingstones, a relocated franchise bringing Southern League baseball to Columbus, Georgia. The downtown ballpark is part of a broader mixed-use redevelopment.
Columbus has hosted professional baseball intermittently since the early 1900s. The Clingstones name references the Georgia peach—specifically the clingstone variety grown throughout the state.
The ballpark sits near the Chattahoochee River and the revitalized Uptown Columbus area, which includes the National Infantry Museum and whitewater rafting course. It anchors a growing entertainment corridor.
Build specs
- ARCHITECT
- Populous
- CAPACITY
- 5,000
- OPENED
- 2025
- SURFACE
- Natural Grass
- COST
- $80M (est.)
Statues & Exterior
EXTERIOR FEATURES
Chattahoochee Riverwalk
Adjacent
The park connects to the Chattahoochee RiverWalk, a 22-mile paved trail along the river that forms the Georgia-Alabama border.
Peach-Themed Design
Throughout
Design elements reference the Georgia peach and the team's clingstone peach mascot, with warm color palettes throughout.
Names & History
2025–present
Synovus Park
Brand-new park for the relocated Columbus Clingstones franchise.
The Food
Georgia Peach Cobbler
Georgia is the Peach State. Fresh Georgia peach cobbler with a butter biscuit crust is the most appropriate food in professional baseball.
Georgia Peach Cobbler
Peach Cobbler stand — main concourse
Georgia is the Peach State — the Elberta peach is the state's defining agricultural export. Fresh Georgia peach cobbler with a butter biscuit crust.
Sonny's BBQ Pulled Pork
Sonny's stand
Sonny's BBQ brings their pulled pork and sauce program to Synovus Park. Georgia BBQ — sweet tomato-and-vinegar middle ground.
Country's Barbecue
Country's stand
Country's Barbecue, the Columbus, GA institution since 1975 — whole hog, hickory smoke, house-made sauce.
Vidalia Onion Rings
Onion ring stands
Vidalia onions — the sweet onion grown exclusively in the 20-county Vidalia area of southeast Georgia, with protected geographical status.
Clingstones Dog
Hot dog stands
Standard hot dog with Georgia yellow mustard and optional peach relish.
The Beer
Synovus Park features a central Georgia craft presence. Gate City Brewing and SweetWater Brewing represent the options.
Gate City Brewing Peach Pale Ale
Gate City Brewing · Columbus, GA
Gate City Brewing, Columbus's emerging craft brewery, brings a Georgia peach-influenced pale ale that is exactly appropriate for the Clingstones' park.
SweetWater Brewing 420 Extra Pale Ale
SweetWater Brewing Co. · Atlanta, GA
SweetWater, Atlanta's most nationally distributed craft brewery, is available throughout the Synovus Park concourse. 420 Extra Pale Ale is their flagship.
Monday Night Brewing Drafty Kilt
Monday Night Brewing · Atlanta, GA
Monday Night Brewing, one of Atlanta's most acclaimed craft breweries, brings their Drafty Kilt Scottish Ale and Pursuit of Hoppiness IPA to central Georgia.
Bud Light
Anheuser-Busch
Volume beer throughout the Georgia market.
Sun & Weather Guide
northeast — Columbus GA · Chattahoochee River valley · 250 ft elevation
Chattahoochee River valley — Georgia summer evenings
Columbus summer evening games are the park's optimal experience. The Chattahoochee River moderates evening temperatures and the new 2025 grandstand includes enhanced shade design.
Georgia summer — Deep South heat and humidity
Columbus summer day games carry full Georgia humidity — 90°F+ with subtropical moisture May through September. Evening games strongly preferred.
Georgia spring — excellent March through May
Columbus spring games are among the best in the Southern League. Georgia's warm, mild spring season makes March and April games genuinely comfortable.
2025 — first full season in new facility
Synovus Park opened in 2025 — the facilities are entirely new, the sightlines are modern, and the concourse infrastructure is fresh.
Insider Tips
The One Thing
Order the Georgia peach cobbler with biscuit crust and a Gate City Peach Pale Ale. The peach cobbler and the peach ale at a park named the Clingstones in Columbus, Georgia is the most thematically complete food experience in the Southern League.
Chattahoochee Whitewater Park
Walk to the Chattahoochee River before the game — 3 blocks west. The world's largest urban whitewater course operates on the reclaimed dam infrastructure. Watch kayakers run the rapids.
Vidalia Onion Rings
Vidalia onions have US protected geographical status — they can only be grown in a specific 20-county area of southeast Georgia. When you order Vidalia onion rings at Synovus Park, you are eating something with a provenance as specific as Champagne.
Parking Reality
Synovus Park has adjacent parking in the Columbus Uptown area. Columbus is a mid-sized Georgia city — parking is accessible and the downtown area is compact.
Best Value Seat
Third base lower grandstand — Chattahoochee River direction to the west, new stadium infrastructure, and excellent sight lines. Evening game in new 2025 facility with Georgia peach cobbler.
Pilgrim Stops Near Columbus
Weird, wonderful, and worth the detour.
Andersonville National Historic Site
The Civil War's deadliest prison camp, and the only Confederate officer hanged for war crimes.
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site Plains
The small Georgia town that produced a president who returned to build houses for others.
Callaway Gardens Pine Mountain
The largest glass butterfly conservatory in North America, on a restored cotton-field ridge.
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