Walkup Skydome
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NAU campus in 2006
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| Former names | NAU Skydome (1977–79) |
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| Location | McConnell Drive Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S. |
| Owner | Northern Arizona University |
| Operator | Northern Arizona University |
| Capacity | 11,230 - total 10,000 - permanent seats 1,230 seats in ten sections of portable bleachers |
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FieldTurf (2002–present) AstroTurf (1977–2001) |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | September 4, 1975 |
| Opened | September 17, 1977 |
| Renovated | 2010–2011 |
| Construction cost | $8,000,000 ($31.6 million in 2017 dollars) |
| Architect | Rossman and Partners |
| Structural engineer | John K. Parsons |
| Tenants | |
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NAU Lumberjacks (NCAA) (1977–present) |
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The J. Lawrence Walkup Skydome is an indoor multi-purpose stadium located on the campus of Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Opened 40 years ago in September 1977, it is the home of the NAU Lumberjacks football and basketball teams of the Big Sky Conference. The seating capacity is 11,230, with 10,000 permanent seats and 1,230 seats in portable bleachers. During its first football season it hosted five games, with an average attendance of 13,029. NAU football was previously played outdoors on natural grass at Lumberjack Stadium. The dome hosted the Big Sky men's basketball tournament in 1987, 1997, 1998, and 2006.
For its first six years, the Walkup Skydome was the world's largest clear-span timber dome, until the completion of the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington, in 1983. The architect was Wendell Rossman of Phoenix, also responsible for many other buildings on the surrounding NAU campus. The wood used in construction of Walkup Skydome was Southern Yellow Pine. At its launching in 1977, it was the third indoor football stadium in the Big Sky Conference: Holt Arena at Idaho State in Pocatello opened in 1970 (as the "Minidome") and the Kibbie Dome at Idaho in Moscow was enclosed in 1975.
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