Petrova Field

Park Name: Petrova Field

Tenants: Saranac Lake Surge (Empire League)


Opened: 1930

Address: 79 Canaras Avenue, Saranac Lake, New York 12983


Former Names:

Trudeau Memorial Field (1930-1931)

Municipal Field (1932-1987)


Former Tenants:

Saranac Lake Red Sox (Northern League) 1936-1939

The view from behind home plate at Petrova Field.

The view from down the first base line.

The view from down the third base line.

The grandstand at Petrova Field, as seen from center field.

The pressbox is a small tent set up on the third base side of the backstop behind home plate.

The main seating area is a set of aluminum bleachers behind home plate.

A much smaller section of bleachers sits on the third base side of the field.

The seating on the first base side is set back from the field.

Petrova Field also serves as a high school football field and the football seating sits behind the left field wall.

The chain link, domed backstop.

The dugouts are plexiglass canopies that sit at field level.

The clubhouse sits behind the field, and concessions are served out of a mobile trailer parked in front of it.

Petrova Field sits in a residential neighborhood as part of a school athletic complex. Youth baseball and softball fields sit behind the main field.

The outfield wall. It comes to a sharp corner in center field where the permanent football fence meets the removable part of the baseball fence.

The Saranac Lake Surge on the field during a game at Petrova Field.