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ST. GEORGE — After hosting rodeos, football games and many other events for nearly eight decades, plans are in place to give the historic Dixie Sunbowl a facelift and comfier seating.
The city of St. George plans to renovate the 77-year-old downtown landmark that has become synonymous with the annual Lions Club Dixie Roundup Rodeo. These plans include the installation of better seating, bleachers with shade structures and reducing the overall size of the arena to create a new venue/plaza space facing 400 East. These changes would be implemented while keeping the overall footprint of the Sunbowl the same.
Last Thursday, members of the city's parks and community services department met with the St. George City Council and provided a 3D diorama to show what the remodeled Sunbowl would look like according to the current concept design.
While the field in the middle of the stadium would basically be cut in half by a new seating structure, Mark Goble, a landscape architect with the city's parks department, told the City Council there would still be enough room to hold the annual Dixie Roundup Rodeo. In its current form, the Sunbowl is one of the largest stadiums of its kind in the state, he said.
