what college has the best track facilities

Best combination of indoor and outdoor track facilities

Texas A&M

Arkansas

Wow, I didn't know Texas A@M had built the new indoor facility so fast.

BYU, Oregon, and the University of Washington have nice facilities.

The U of Washington's 300m+ indoor track is an afterthought that surrounds the Huskies indoor football practice field. They can't even run a six lane 60m hurdle race, because lane six is right up against the outside wall.

The Huskies outdoor track was located in Husky (football) Stadium, until the football gods removed the track to get football fans closer to the "action". The track was moved north adjacent to some parking lots with a pathetic lack of seating or bathrooms. Many high school stadiums in Washington are vastly superior. An embarrassment for a D1 school.

If you are a distance runner Airforce has the best set up.

Great indoor and outdoor tracks, grass fields for days.

Trails everywhere!!!!! All set in the foothills 6k elevation and completely private!

Outdoors wise it’s Oregon with everything else a distant second.

Thumbs up for Hayward! If you are ever lucky enough to gain access to the facilities under the stands, prepare to be amazed. The concourse around the backside of the stands is coated with the same Benyon surface as the track. It allows for up to 500 meters of covered space to train on when the rains are too much.

Outdoor: any Southern California / bay school, especially Stanford

Indoor: Depends if you prefer oversized or banked, but notre Dame or Harvard

if we are only considering indoor, we can’t have this conversation without Notre Dame. Long live the gug

You mean Loftus. The "Gug" is the football part of the building.

An outdoor track is an outdoor track - they're all mostly the same. Weather is a lot more important than track construction for distance outdoors. Some cool ones are Point Loma Nazarane and Pepperdine which overlook the ocean. Its amazing how many coastal schools didn't think to do this. The best would prob be to have a cross country course on campus or a campus that connects to crushed limestone trails.

Iowa State is as good as any. They have a great outdoor track with a perfectly groomed cross country course across the street and a 300 meter indoor track. I really think 300 meter tracks are better for training a large track team. Distance guys run in lane 5-6. Hurdlers use 7-8. Sprinters use 3-4. Mid d uses 1-2. Banked tracks are nice for racing but don't work well for more than one group training.

Penn State has a pretty gray indoor facility. Outdoor track is serviceable, would be nice if there were more stands around it

*GREAT

UPenn's outdoor track is better than Oregon's

It’s supposed to be 2 truths and a lie, not 2 lies and a truth!

Navy has a nice set up - banked indoor track with floor to ceiling windows overlooking the Severn River, and a very nice outdoor track.

Their outdoor track looks super nice, with all of the field events contained within the infield... do you really need anything more than aluminum bleachers and port-a-potties for a college track meet? Plus you don't have the football team plopping their benches in lane one, or soccer balls bouncing across the track.

The downside of all these tracks getting booted out of football stadiums is there are fewer and fewer venues for major meets like Diamond League, Nationals and Worlds. But few of those tracks met the standards for dimensions and field event areas anyway.