Nationals Park Parking
Washington Nationals · Washington, DC
Know Before You Go
Essential details checked against official venue information.
- Parking payments
Advance parking passes are recommended for Nationals-affiliated garages and lots because drive-up parking is offered only for some games and is not guaranteed.
Applies to: Nationals-affiliated parking for Washington Nationals games
- Have the digital parking ticket ready for an attendant to scan at entry; affiliated lots open two hours and 15 minutes before each game.
- Cheapest lot
- $20
- Lots listed
- 2
- Closest
- 0.1-0.2 miles
Nationals Park is in DC's Navy Yard district. Metro Green Line to Navy Yard-Ballpark station is right at the park. Navy Yard neighborhood has excellent pregame bars and restaurants.
Road Closures on Game Day
- From three hours before the game until about ninety minutes after: N Street from South Capitol Street to First Street SE, and Half Street from M Street to N Street SE.
- Over the same window, Van Street and Cushing Place between M and N Streets SE are restricted to local traffic.
- From about forty-five minutes after the final out: First Street from M Street to Potomac Avenue SE, and Potomac Avenue from South Capitol Street to First Street SE.
- Also after the game: northbound South Capitol Street from Firth Sterling Avenue to M Street SE, and Howard Road from Firth Sterling Avenue to Suitland Parkway SE.
- Two highway ramps shut after the game as well: southbound I-295 Exit 4 and eastbound I-395 Exit 1A.
Tips & Fan Reports
What fans who park here actually do, and what it cost them.
Don't buy parking online - it is cheaper to just buy at the garage on game day. Use the MLB Ballpark App for mobile ordering and try coupon codes like BUD or BUDHAPPY. They sometimes still work a day after they expire.
Water taxi from The Wharf to the ballpark is a scenic option. Check the Potomac Riverboat Company schedule.
I-295 and South Capitol Street are the main approaches from Virginia and Maryland suburbs.
If driving, the official garages fill early. Pre-book through the Nationals website.
Take the Metro. Navy Yard–Ballpark station is 5 minutes from the gates. DC parking is expensive and traffic is awful.
Rideshare drop-off on N Street SE. Post-game, walk toward The Wharf for faster pickup.
Where to Park
Nationals Park Garages
$350.1-0.2 miles
Official garages at Nationals Park in the Navy Yard district of SE Washington DC.
- Navy Yard district
- Advance purchase recommended
- Expensive DC parking
Navy Yard / Capitol Hill Lots
$200.2-0.5 milesCheapest
Garages in the Navy Yard neighborhood.
- $15-30 range
- Navy Yard has restaurants
- Short walk
Or Skip the Car
- Metro (Navy Yard-Ballpark) — $3 · WMATA Metro Green Line to Navy Yard-Ballpark station, right at Nationals Park.
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- The Geico Garage is entered from N Street and South Capitol Street, SE.
- Getting out is routed by garage, so it is worth knowing which one you are in before the ninth inning. Geico Garage traffic is sent northbound on South Capitol Street toward I Street, with the 3rd Street Tunnel or I-395 west toward Virginia as the onward options.
- Garage C traffic is sent southbound on South Capitol Street across the Frederick Douglass Bridge, with I-295 in either direction or Suitland Parkway east as the onward options.
Washington Nationals Car Gear
Window flags, plate frames, and decals to fly Washington Nationals colors in the lot.
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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.
- Parking guidance
Metropolitan Police Department traffic advisory for the Nationals season (published 2024-04-01): garage entry and post-game egress routing, and the game-day closure schedule.
- Venue policies
Nationals Park policy, accessibility, cognitive-services, bag, dietary, digital-ticket, guest-conduct, and parking guidance reviewed for entry, family, payment, food, parking, and accessibility rules.
Not yet checked against a published source
These figures are estimates. Most venues no longer publish the numbers behind them — concession and ticket pricing moved to dynamic marketplaces — so we hold them as estimates rather than dating them as verified.
- Parking prices — Never checked against a published rate: the venue's parking page, read 2026-09-05, publishes none — the cited source is a police traffic advisory from April 2024 that names two garages and prices neither. The 2026-07-26 figures were compiled from third-party listings (was: "Nationals Park 2026: official parking $20-$49 by game tier; Garage B/C attached to the stadium $54, other official options $37-$39").