SRP Park Put Augusta's Baseball Back on the River
The Augusta GreenJackets play across the river at SRP Park in North Augusta — a ballpark on the Savannah that made minor-league baseball a two-state, one-riverfront experience.
Augusta's baseball address comes with a twist: to watch the Augusta GreenJackets at home, you cross the river. SRP Park, the team's home since 2018, stands in North Augusta, South Carolina, on the Savannah River — close enough to downtown Augusta that the ballpark, the bridges and the two downtowns read as one riverfront.
The GreenJackets are the Single-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, which gives Augusta-area fans a direct line to the big-league club two and a half hours up I-20. Young Braves prospects pass through SRP Park on their way up the system, and part of the ballpark's pleasure is the guessing game: which of these players will be in Atlanta in three years?
The park itself changed the local sports map. Built as the anchor of North Augusta's riverfront development, it pairs baseball with apartments, restaurants and public space along the river — the same Savannah River frontage that Augusta's Riverwalk anchors on the Georgia side.
Minor-league baseball in Augusta is older than the ballpark, of course. The GreenJackets name and the city's long baseball history run back through Lake Olmstead Stadium, where the club played for years before the move across the river — a smaller, scruffier park that longtime fans still measure every new experience against.
With the season over, November is planning season: schedules, promotions and the countdown to spring. When the GreenJackets return, they will return to one of the prettiest settings in the minor leagues — Augusta's team, on Augusta's river, whatever the map says about the state line.
