You know in video or computer games where you can build your own, perfect stadium?

You drop in some beautiful blue bleachers, a freshly-manicured field and then, for the best part -- the backdrop -- you put in some giant mountains. Snowcapped mountains to add a little more majesty. It gives the aura of something so breathtaking that it could never be a real place. Like someone playing baseball in front of a giant green screen.

But, well, it is a real place: It's Brigham Young University's Miller Park.

"BYU is in a setting, we're literally on the foothills of mountains. It feels like you're in the mountains," head baseball coach Mike Littlewood told me in a recent phone call. "Half a mile away, you can go up and start hiking up Y mountain. Park City, where they did the Olympics, is just up the road. For somebody else to come in and see this, who's not used to being around the mountains, I'm sure it's just an amazing view for them."

Littlewood is right: pretty much the entire BYU campus is surrounded by the Rocky Mountains' Wasatch Range. That makes for an abundance of outdoor recreation in the area -- from skiing to backpacking to hunting. It's an environment that seems odd to put side-by-side with a summer game like baseball, which probably makes it all the more spectacular when someone sees it for the first time.

"Every team that comes in mentions the view and how beautiful it is," Littlewood said. "You have to kind of be here to see the majesty of the mountains. How tall, how big, how massive they are. How close you are to them."

The ballpark opened in 2001 and can seat a little over 4,000 fans. Because winters can be harsh in the area, heated synthetic turf was installed throughout the complex in 2018. The outfield dimensions are 402 feet in straight-away center, 347 feet down the left-field line and 343 feet to the right-field pole. Home-run balls can look beautiful, sort of blending in and disappearing into the white-capped peaks (the range is half-mile away, so unfortunately you can't actually hit a ball off a mountain). Snow baseball is not uncommon in the earliest parts of the season.

Littlewood's team normally takes the third-base dugout as their home base, but the coach before him -- Coach Tuckett -- used to take the first-base side instead. His reason was a good one.

"He would always take the first-base dugout because it faces the mountains directly," Littlewood recalled. "He would choose that first-base dugout because if they were getting beat up pretty badly, at least he could look at the mountains and think of it as his Camelot."

Like other scenic baseball stadiums around the country, Miller Park gets its share of tourists who have no relation to anybody on any team playing on the diamond. They're just there to take in a game with the incredible background or snap some photos with their phones. You can see examples all over social media.

Weather, as mentioned, can be colder here. But Littlewood said many snow and rain storms are stopped or slowed by the mountains that surround the campus. And the heated turf helps: It can melt up to six inches of snow in an hour. Teams coming from warmer parts of the country have trouble adjusting to the frigid air, while BYU is used to practicing and training in the low temps for much of the year. The mountains and the weather can play to their advantage.

So far in 2022, the Cougars are off to a 13-9 start -- already the owners of a six-game winning streak. Littlewood said there are a lot of things about the stadium that can attract prospective recruits -- and that's important -- especially as they enter the more competitive Big 12 conference next year. The former player and now nine-year coach listed Trackman technology, indoor batting cages and a new video scoreboard as ways to entice some of the top ballplayers in the nation.

But, of course, nothing can really top the field itself.

"Yeah, if we can get them on campus and they can just get the feel of campus," Littlewood told me. "Have them walk from our tunnel, up the stairs and get on the field, I mean, every guy goes, 'Wow, this is incredible.'"