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I've started looking over north Texas marking the band practice fields I can find with leisure=pitch, sport=marching_band. I am always open for suggestions! Here, you generally find them at high schools on a dedicated field, or part of a parking lot as seen below.

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A topdown photo of a parking lot that also includes a marching band practice field.
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I love this so much! This one also looks like lit=yes. 🤩
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@Paguro Yes! Some are grass, but at least around me, they appear as an American football field painted on top of a parking lot. Sometimes they have one or two giant circles in them, though I’m not sure what those are for. Practicing group turns maybe?
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@Paguro Also they often have some sort of tower next to them where the drum major/band director will be located.
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I might have been overselling it when I said tower, but thats what they're labeled in OSM. Haha.

They're usually a 10x10 foot platform, one to two stories high, nothing too extravagant. My school was smaller though and had a rollable platform that they would bring out on to the field for shows.

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I think you're correct, but I was in choir in school, not band!

Only the schools that have larger parking lots have a full "field" painted. I've seen many that only go from something like the 10 to the 50 yard line, or some that are even shorter without numbering at all.

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Unfortunately, giant parking lots are normal in my state (country?). REALLY big parking lots without trees. It is super awful.

Soccer fields after dark sounds pretty cool!

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