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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 04:21:00

Built in 1962 on the 105-acre Mississippi State Fairgrounds complex in Jackson, the Mississippi Coliseum is a 6,500-seat multi-purpose arena that expands to 10,000 for concerts using temporary floor seating. The facility sits -- remarkably -- 2,900 feet above the extinct Jackson Volcano, an igneous dome buried deep underground and dating to 69-79 million years ago, making it one of the most geologically unusual arena sites in North America. The coliseum is best known as the longtime home of the...