US Cellular Community Park, Sports complex in Medford, Oregon.
Lithia & Driveway Fields is an athletic complex on South Pacific Highway in Medford, visible from Interstate 5 near milepost 26. It holds five baseball fields, four softball fields, two sports fields and a championship soccer field, at about 1,400 feet above sea level.
The land was a cattle ranch bought by Martin Dietrich Heitkamp and his wife Gertrude in 1937; their son Martin and daughter Rose Leever helped farm it. In 2007 the property was sold to the City of Medford and became Lithia & Driveway Fields at Heitkamp Ranch. Harry & David Field, named for the corporation headquartered just south, opened in 2005 and was the idea of local businessman Gary Miller.
The complex carries the name of its 2007 buyer's ranch: the land was the Heitkamp family cattle ranch from 1937 until the City of Medford purchased it. Harry & David Field, brainchild of local businessman Gary Miller, is named for the corporation headquartered just south of the ballpark. The softball diamond renamed Radio Medford Field in December 2011 reflects a five-year, $175,000 naming agreement with Mapleton Communications.
The park sits on South Pacific Highway, visible from Interstate 5 near milepost 26, at about 1,400 feet (430 m) elevation. Harry & David Field is a separate entity from the city-owned complex, so check which field hosts a given game before arriving.
The light towers, scoreboard and foul poles at the complex came from Miles Field, the city's former minor-league ballpark, which was demolished in 2004 and replaced by a Wal-Mart. Miles Field had hosted the Medford A's from 1979 and later the Southern Oregon Timberjacks, who left for British Columbia in October 1999.
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