Husky Stadium is the home football stadium of the Washington Huskies in Seattle, Washington, built on the shore of Lake Washington with views of the Cascade Mountains. It is the largest stadium in the Pacific Northwest, college or professional. Fans famously arrive by boat for 'sailgating,' with thousands of vessels anchoring near the stadium on game days. The combination of waterfront setting and crowd noise makes it one of the most recognizable stadiums in college football.
The stadium opened in 1920 with an original capacity of about 30,000 and has been expanded and renovated repeatedly since, most extensively in a major 2010s reconstruction. It has long been ranked among the loudest venues in college football due to its bowl shape trapping crowd noise. Sailgating has grown into a signature game-day ritual, with thousands of fans on the water alongside traditional tailgating on campus. Over a century of expansions have made it one of the largest on-campus stadiums in the country.
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