San Francisco’s Candlestick Park is a well loved outdoor sports and entertainment stadium. The locals got used to calling it Candlestick, or simply The Stick. In 2004, it was renamed Monster Park. The stadium was originally built to be the home stadium for baseball’s San Francisco Giants, and they used it from 1960 until 2000, when they moved to AT&T Park. Today, Candlestick Park is known as the home field for the San Francisco 49ers football team. Candlestick Park is the only stadium where NFL football is played that had its beginnings as a baseball stadium. Visitors to the area who hope to catch a 49ers game should see about the cheap hotels in San Francisco near Candlestick Park, and put the money they save on lodging toward their game ticket.
The stadium was the first modern stadium built for a baseball team, and was made out of reinforced concrete from top to bottom. In 1989, an earthquake hit San Francisco just a few minutes before a game of the world Series was to be played. No one was injured, and there was only a small amount of damage done to the stadium. The design of the stadium saved many lives that day. Budget hotels near Candlestick Park in San Francisco will please you greatly price-wise as well as comfort and quality-wise.