CLEVELAND  There were no vendors wandering the aisles, no players warming up on a sun-drenched field, no shirtless bleacher faithful.

Winter had arrived, after all, at Progressive Field.

Yet the home run porch in left field was blanketed with people sipping hot chocolate, warming up by a fire and glancing out at the enormous winter playground the Cleveland Indians have created in an effort to get more use, and revenue, out of what would otherwise be a dormant facility.

As part of what the team calls Snow Days, the site’s centerpieces are a 10-lane tubing hill named the batterhorn that stretches from the middle of the bleachers into right field, and a quarter-mile ice skating track called the frozen mile  the first of its kind in the United States, the Indians say  that zips past the warning track, second base, the bullpens and underneath the bleachers.

“People can go somewhere and tube, they can go somewhere and ice skate, but they can’t do it in a setting like this, with the entertainment that our scoreboard group’s provided, the Christmas lights on the field; it’s just a completely unique entertainment option,” said Mark Shapiro, the team’s president and a person more accustomed to talking about pitchers and catchers.