The 2026 Indianapolis Colts training camp is the last one that will ever be held at Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield. After eight summers about 15 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, the team moves camp operations to the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center in Indianapolis beginning in 2027. If you have been meaning to make the drive to Westfield for a practice, 2026 is the final year the option exists.

Camp runs on select days from July 29 through August 20, 2026, and the format is unusually generous by NFL standards: all 13 practices are open to the public, and seven of them are free.

What Remains on the 2026 Schedule

The camp closes with its two biggest days. The Colts host the Atlanta Falcons for joint practices on Wednesday, August 19 (3–5 p.m.) and Thursday, August 20 (3–4:30 p.m.) — the final two sessions at Grand Park, and the only ones featuring another roster on the field.

Joint practices are the best value on any training camp schedule, and it is worth understanding why. A team practising against itself is limited: coaches are protecting their own players, the same units line up against each other every day, and the competitive edge dulls. Bring in another franchise and the intensity changes immediately. You get genuine one-on-one matchups, unfamiliar looks, and position battles decided against players who have no interest in making anyone look good. For a spectator, it is the closest thing to live football before the regular season.

Both joint practice days are Primetime Practices, which means tickets are $5 for anyone 18 or older. Fans 17 and under are free, but still need to download a ticket.

The Full Practice Format

The 13 sessions split into two ticket tiers.

Free practices: July 29 (10–11 a.m., Camp Kickoff), July 30 (10–11 a.m.), July 31 (10–11:15 a.m., Family Day), August 3 (10–11:15 a.m.), August 4 (10–11:30 a.m.), August 9 (10–11:30 a.m.), and August 16 (4–5:30 p.m., Give Back Sunday).

$5 Primetime Practices: August 1 (4–5:30 p.m., the NFL’s Back Together Saturday), August 6 (8–10 p.m., “Thirsty Thursday”), August 8 (10–11:35 a.m., Salute to Service Day), August 15 (4–5 p.m.), and the two Falcons joint practices on August 19 and 20.

Ticket proceeds support flag football development across Indiana, which is a more concrete use of a $5 charge than most stadium fees can claim.

Parking is $5 if purchased in advance or $10 on-site, per vehicle, per day. Buy ahead — the saving is trivial but the queue at the gate is not.

Theme Days Worth Planning Around

The theme days are not just branding. Each one changes what actually happens around the practice.

The August 6 “Thirsty Thursday” session is the one genuine oddity on the calendar: an 8–10 p.m. practice under lights. Night practices look and sound different, the August heat has broken by then, and it is the most atmospheric session of the camp.

Family Day on July 31 and Give Back Sunday on August 16 are both free and both weighted toward children’s programming. Salute to Service Day on August 8 recognises military and veteran families. Back Together Saturday on August 1 is a league-wide NFL promotion, so expect the largest crowd of the early camp.

Colts City and What Kids Actually Get

The fan area surrounding the practice fields, Colts City, is a substantial operation rather than a token tent. It includes the Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital Field with football drills, a 40-yard dash setup, flag football programming, mascot appearances and interactive activities.

Two specifics are worth knowing before you arrive. Fans 17 and under can collect a free trading card at the Colts City Info Tent before practice, and some cards carry a sticker granting access to an exclusive player autograph session. Select practices also feature post-practice autographs and signed mini-football tosses. If autographs are the point of your trip, arrive early and go to the info tent first — the sticker system means the opportunity is distributed before practice, not after it.

One planning caveat: if weather forces a practice indoors, capacity limits apply. An outdoor practice with 13 open sessions and generous access becomes a much smaller event under a roof, so check the team’s channels the morning of any session with storms forecast.

Getting There from Indianapolis

Grand Park is in Westfield, roughly 15 miles north of downtown Indianapolis, reached via US 31 or Interstate 465 to Keystone Parkway. It is a straightforward drive outside rush hour and a genuinely slow one inside it — a 10 a.m. practice means leaving downtown well before the tail of the morning commute on US 31.

The complex is a youth sports campus rather than a stadium, which shapes the experience in ways first-time visitors find surprising. Sightlines are at field level or from grass berms, shade is limited, and there is very little natural cover. For a morning session in late July, sunscreen and water matter more than they would at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where grandstands at least offer structure.

Why the Move Matters

Grand Park has been an unusual arrangement: an NFL team holding camp on a municipal youth sports campus in a suburb, with public access far beyond what most franchises permit. Consolidating at the Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center in Indianapolis is the operationally sensible choice — the team’s facilities, medical staff and meeting rooms are all there.

What changes for fans is not yet fully clear, and it is fair to be cautious about assuming the 2027 arrangement will replicate 13 open practices, seven of them free, on a campus with room for thousands of spectators to spread across berms. Access at a team’s own training facility is typically more constrained by the site itself.

That is the honest case for treating the 2026 camp as worth the trip: not that the team is leaving Indianapolis, but that this particular version of training camp — suburban, sprawling, mostly free, and built around families — is ending.

Sources: Indianapolis Colts 2026 training camp schedule and ticketing information; City of Westfield announcements regarding the 2026 camp.