Is there shade at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater?

Hollywood Casino Amphitheater: what the canopy covers and what it misses

A canopy changes the math at an outdoor show, and at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Maryland Heights, Missouri it does exactly what a canopy should: it puts the entire seated pavilion in full shade while leaving the lawn to fend for itself. These figures come from our mapped model of the venue.

Full cover up front, open sky on the lawn

Over a typical evening event the venue averages about 90 percent shade overall, and the canopy is the reason.

• The pavilion is completely covered. Sections 101 through 106 all read a full 100 percent shaded, and that dead-flat coverage carries across the roofed seating.
• The lawn is where the sun lands. Lawn 5 runs about 76 percent shaded, Lawn 6 near 72 percent, Lawn 7 around 68 percent, and Lawn 8 down near 63 percent.

The choice is simple. A canopy seat at Hollywood Casino Amphitheater is shade insurance from the moment you sit down. The lawn is the cheaper ticket and the sunnier one, though even there you keep a majority of your shade over the event thanks to how late the sun sits.

The evening timeline and heat

In high summer, sunset in Maryland Heights falls around 8:26 PM. A 7 PM show opens with the sun still up, about 15 degrees above the horizon and off to the west-northwest near a bearing of 286 degrees. From 6 PM the venue averages roughly 79 percent shade, a strong early figure driven by that canopy, and it only climbs as the sun drops.

Missouri summers run hot and humid, so on the lawn the first hour is the stretch to plan for with water and sunscreen; the pavilion sidesteps that entirely. As the sun sinks toward sunset, the lawn cools and shade becomes universal.

For the shade at your exact seat and date, the interactive shade map shows Hollywood Casino Amphitheater section by section, so you can weigh a covered seat against a lawn spot for your own show.