Pelicans Ballpark

Pelicans Ballpark sits inside Broadway at the Beach — the large mixed-use entertainment, retail, and dining complex on the inland side of Myrtle Beach roughly a mile from the oceanfront. Broadway at the Beach contains restaurants, bars, an aquarium (Ripley's Aquarium of Myrtle Beach), the Carolina Improv Company comedy club, and a multiplex; the ballpark functions effectively as the sports anchor of the complex. The Myrtle Beach oceanfront — the Boardwalk, the Pier 14, the SkyWheel, and the chain of high-rise oceanfront hotels — sits a short drive east and is where the overwhelming majority of visiting fans actually stay (most Pelicans crowds are vacationers who built a ballpark night into a beach week rather than dedicated baseball travelers). The neighborhood reads as a beach-town tourist-anchor ballpark — the most directly vacation-oriented MiLB venue in the country.

Plan to arrive about 45-60 minutes before first pitch — Broadway at the Beach parking is well-signed but fills steadily on Pelicans summer weekend home dates when the entire complex is at vacation-week peak demand. Pelicans Ballpark opened in 1999 (originally as Coastal Federal Field, then BB&T Coastal Field, and now Pelicans Ballpark under the current naming approach). The Myrtle Beach Pelicans have been the Chicago Cubs' Single-A affiliated club since 2015, after stints with the Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers earlier in the franchise's history. The 2021 MiLB reorganization moved the Carolina League to the Single-A level. The ballpark's vacation-week summer crowds — heavy with families and casual baseball viewers building a game into a beach week — give Pelicans home dates a distinctively festive promotional-night feel. Mobile-only tickets are the norm. Bag policy and gate-open times shift season to season; confirm on the Pelicans' site before going.

Pelicans Ballpark opened in 1999 as Coastal Federal Field inside the Broadway at the Beach complex. It has carried multiple naming-rights identities — Coastal Federal Field, BB&T Coastal Field, TicketReturn.com Field at Pelicans Ballpark — and is currently most commonly referred to simply as Pelicans Ballpark. Capacity sits around 6,599. The Myrtle Beach Pelicans have been the Chicago Cubs' Single-A Carolina League affiliate continuously since 2015 (previously Texas Rangers affiliate 2011-2014, Atlanta Braves affiliate 1999-2010). The 2021 MiLB reorganization moved the Carolina League to the Single-A level. The ballpark functions as the sports anchor of Broadway at the Beach — the Myrtle Beach mixed-use entertainment complex inland of the oceanfront — and the franchise's crowd composition skews heavily toward summer-vacationing families on a Myrtle Beach week rather than dedicated local season-ticket holders. The summer-vacation orientation is the venue's defining characteristic.