Imagine a baseball diamond among the mountains of Grand Teton, Wyoming. That, more or less, is the idea Major League Baseball has been considering, and it is a fairly wild one: playing games inside one of the most spectacular national parks in the United States. According to The Athletic, MLB is seriously exploring the possibility of taking baseball into a national park and has already asked the Trump administration whether an event of this kind could be staged. The place under consideration is Grand Teton National Park, in Wyoming. According to another authoritative source, the Washington Post, Frank Lands, deputy director of the National Park Service, has visited the area and looked at three possible sites for a baseball field.
The idea, naturally, raises a number of questions. Staging a game would require the construction, at least temporarily, of a field on protected federal land, a prospect that has already drawn concern from an environmental group and local authorities. The White House, however, has stressed that the project is not a direct initiative of President Donald Trump. “This is not a presidential directive and is not a White House-led project,” the administration said, “nor is it an initiative of the Department of the Interior.” As for the project itself, the message was simple enough: “If MLB wants to conduct site visits at national parks, that is its prerogative. MLB has made no decisions and the National Park Service has granted no permits.” So, for now, there is no game to organise, only a possibility that Major League Baseball is exploring, along with other locations. The league is looking for new places for its special events and in recent years has shown a willingness to take baseball beyond its usual surroundings.
The best-known example is Iowa, where MLB has staged games inspired by Field of Dreams since 2021. The response was strong enough for the league to invest in permanent infrastructure, and the project will return in 2027 for a fourth time. Not every experiment has gone quite as smoothly. In 2025, MLB took baseball to Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, turning one of the great American racing venues into a giant stadium for a regular-season game. The event attracted a record crowd, but the organisers also had to contend with some less glamorous problems: several concession stands ran out of food during the day. Even in an extraordinary setting, there are still rather ordinary things to worry about.
Now the backdrop could become more spectacular still. A game at Grand Teton would make the landscape part of the spectacle, with the mountains behind the field and baseball unfolding in one of the great natural landscapes of the United States. Grand Teton is protected land, though, and any work required to host a sporting event would have to meet environmental rules and restrictions well beyond those governing an ordinary sports venue.
For the moment, there is neither a final site nor a date. If the project goes ahead, the first game could not take place before 2028. Before then, there would be several things to settle: finding the right location, working out how to build the field without damaging the area, obtaining the necessary permits and understanding what the arrival of thousands of spectators would mean for a national park. MLB is looking beyond the traditional ballpark. After Iowa and a motor-racing circuit turned into a baseball venue, the idea of playing among the mountains of Wyoming no longer seems quite so far-fetched. Whether baseball can actually make it there is another matter. It is easy enough to picture a home run with the Grand Tetons behind it. Building the field is another thing altogether.