Boston Red Sox
Fenway Park, Boston, MA
- Capacity
- 37,305
- Roof
- Open Air
- Surface
- Natural Grass
- Opened
- 1912
- Tickets
- $25+
- Parking
- $12+
- Beer
- $14+
- Food
- $7+
- Est. total
- $58+
Against the other 29 MLB ballparks, Fenway Park is the 27th cheapest game day: 27th for tickets, 18th for parking and 27th for food and drink, compared on market ticket medians and published lot and menu prices in US dollars. See the full ranking.
Prices are estimates. See our methodology.
What to Expect
Fenway Park is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball, opened in 1912 in the heart of Boston's Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood. The Green Monster, Pesky's Pole, the manual scoreboard. This is baseball history in every brick. The pregame scene centers on Lansdowne Street and Brookline Avenue, packed with bars and restaurants that have fueled Red Sox Nation for generations. The ballpark is intimate and quirky, obstructed views, narrow concourses, and seats that don't quite face home plate are part of the charm. Arrive early to soak it in. Games run about 3 hours.
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The trees on Yawkey Way are planted in the same red dirt that is on the field. Want to touch some Fenway dirt? You don't have to trespass or buy a framed cup of it. Check out the Bleacher Bar under the bleachers for pregame.
Fenway is a bucket list experience and the oldest park in baseball. The seats are small and cramped but that is part of the charm. Spring for the Monster seats at least once in your life for the view.
State Park and Little Donkey in Cambridge have the best food if you want to eat before. Charlie's Kitchen beer garden in Cambridge is great too. Explore Allston and Cambridge when you are done with the touristy stuff.
Concourse lines are longest in the 3rd and 4th innings. Buy during BP or after the 5th for shorter waits.
There is no tailgate here — there is Lansdowne Street, which is the point of coming early.
If your bag is over the limit, the locker truck on the Lansdowne Garage is the answer rather than a walk back to the car.
Storrow Drive has height and truck restrictions — buses and tall RVs must take the bus route instead.
Parking is scarce and paid. The club says so itself, so plan the T or book ahead.
Day-of tickets appear at Gate E 90 minutes before first pitch, and the queue can legitimately start five hours out.
Ruggles is a 20-minute walk, so it is the option to avoid if you are cutting it fine.
Know Before You Go
Essential details checked against official venue information.
- Bag policy
Bags must have one compartment and measure no more than 12 x 12 x 6 inches.
Applies to: Boston Red Sox games
- Backpacks, backpack-style purses, duffel bags, and other multi-compartment bags are prohibited, including clear backpacks.
- Diaper bags and bags containing essential medical equipment are excepted.
- Gate opening
All Fenway Park gates open 90 minutes before the scheduled start of every game.
Applies to: Boston Red Sox games
- Venue payments
Fenway Park food and beverage purchases are cashless and accept credit cards, debit cards, gift cards, and mobile contactless payments.
Applies to: Fenway Park food and beverage purchases
- Cash-to-card kiosks are on the Gate E, Home Plate, and Gate B Kids concourses; the Gate B Guest Services desk also sells Aramark gift cards for use inside Fenway Park.
- Re-entry
Fenway Park does not allow re-entry after a guest exits.
Applies to: Boston Red Sox games
- A guest whose service animal needs relief may exit and return through any gate.
Guides for Fenway Park
- Game Day Guide
8 steps from arrival to first pitch, and 22 venue rules checked against official sources.
- Parking Guide
3 lots and garages with distances and entry routes, from $12.
- Pregame Guide
4 bars, patios and plazas near Fenway Park to fill the hours before doors.
- Food & Drinks
11 concession stands and 35 items researched from the venue's own menus, cheapest food $7 and drink $6.
- Seating Guide
7 seating areas at Fenway Park, with the level names printed on the ticket.
- Getting There
Driving routes plus every car-free way in — the cheapest is MBTA Green Line to Kenmore, $2.40.
- Cost Calculator
Build a total for your own party using Fenway Park's stored figures.
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.
- Venue facts
Wikipedia / Official Venue Page
- Parking prices
The Red Sox publish two parking rates, both for their own official partner garages: the Prudential Center Garage at $25 by scanning a same-day ticket at the exit machine, and the 100 Clarendon Street Garage at $12 on all nights and weekends, both for evening and weekend games only. The two invented aggregate categories are replaced by those named garages. The nineteen Fenway-area lots are listed by address and approach direction with no rate published for any of them, so "Fenway Area Garages" stays at $45 on the July reference table and is NOT verified by this pass.
- Venue policies
Current Red Sox Fenway Park, accessibility, concessions, and mobile-ticket 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.
- Ticket prices — Secondary market averages (SeatGeek/StubHub)
- Food prices — Team Marketing Report FCI + venue research
- Drink prices — Team Marketing Report FCI + venue research
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