Getting to Nationals Park
Washington Nationals · Washington, DC
Nationals Park publishes the single most practically useful transit fact in this data: the last train home, by day of the week, from the station a block from the gates. Two Metro stations serve it — Navy Yard on the Green Line at one block, Capitol South on the Orange, Blue and Silver at fifteen minutes' walk — and the club prints the Green Line's last departures rather than leaving you to work them out at 11pm.
Tips & Fan Reports
Navy Yard on the Green Line is one block away — the closest rail station to any ballpark in this data bar Ball Arena's own stop.
The club prints the last Green Line trains: past midnight Monday to Thursday, past 2am on Friday and Saturday.
Park-and-ride at Metro-operated lots is free at weekends and on federal holidays.
Lots open 2 hours 15 minutes before the game and close an hour after it ends — they will not wait.
Capitol South on the Orange, Blue and Silver Lines is the alternative, about 15 minutes on foot.
Ways In
- Driving
- The Nationals publish no route in. The ballpark is at 1500 South Capitol Street SE, bounded by South Capitol Street to the west, N Street to the north, First Street to the east and Potomac Avenue to the south. All lots and garages open 2 hours 15 minutes before the game and close 1 hour after it ends. Tailgating is not permitted in any Nationals lot or garage.
- Public Transit
- Take the Green Line to Navy Yard station, one block from the ballpark, or the Orange, Blue or Silver Lines to Capitol South, about a 15-minute walk. The club publishes the last Green Line departures from Navy Yard: Monday to Thursday 12:18am to Branch Ave and 11:53pm to Greenbelt; Friday 2:18am and 1:53am; Saturday 2:18am and 1:51am; Sunday 12:18am and 11:51pm. Daily or hourly parking is available at 51 Metrorail stations, free at Metro-operated lots on weekends and federal holidays.
- Rideshare
- Uber/Lyft drop-off on N Street SE or Half Street SE. 15-25 minutes from Georgetown, Dupont Circle, or Adams Morgan depending on traffic.
- Walking
- Navy Yard station is one block from the ballpark; Capitol South is about a 15 minute walk.
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How We Checked This Page
Every section below names the source it was read from and the day it was read. Where we could not reach a published figure, the page says so rather than presenting an estimate as a checked fact.
- Getting there
Nationals Park transportation pages on mlb.com/nationals — Metro, and driving and parking
- Transit
The DC Circulator entry is removed: dccirculator.com returns NXDOMAIN and DDOT’s own /page/dc-circulator returns "Access denied". That leaves the venue with no publishable car-free figure, which is declared rather than dodged -- and it is the right trade. Publishing $1 for a bus that no longer runs is worse than publishing nothing. The Metro entry keeps its provisional flag for the reason Capital One Arena’s tenants do: WMATA is distance-based at $2.25-$6.75 on a weekday before 9:30pm, which is exactly when a 7pm first pitch lands, and the entry names a station but no origin. The real fix is to give it an origin, and WMATA publishes no station-to-station calculator this pass could reach -- its tariff is a PDF and its Nationals Park rider guide states no fare at all
- Lodging
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