Getting to Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox · Boston, MA
The Red Sox organise transit as a park-and-ride table rather than a list of lines: pick the station nearest where you live, and they tell you which line it is, where to change, and what that leaves you with. Driving guidance is unusually candid — it names the streets that back up, an hour before first pitch, and warns that Storrow Drive has height restrictions buses and RVs must avoid.
Tips & Fan Reports
Storrow Drive has height and truck restrictions — buses and tall RVs must take the bus route instead.
Ruggles is a 20-minute walk, so it is the option to avoid if you are cutting it fine.
Every northern park-and-ride changes to the Green Line at North Station; every southern one at Park Street.
Resident-only parking fines start at $100 and cars get towed; the neighbourhood is dense and enforced.
Lansdowne Station on the Worcester commuter rail line is the closest stop — it is right by the park.
Local streets start backing up about an hour before first pitch.
Ways In
- Driving
- Local streets typically back up about an hour before the game, especially Brookline Avenue, Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue approaching the park, Kenmore Square, and Storrow Drive between Leverett Circle and Kenmore Square. Storrow Drive carries vehicle height and truck restrictions, so buses, trucks and tall RVs must use the separate bus directions. From south of Boston on Route 24 or Route 3, take I-93 towards Boston to the Southampton Street exit, left, and join Massachusetts Avenue at Melnea Cass Boulevard. A dense residential neighbourhood surrounds the park and fines for resident-only spaces start at $100, with towing.
- Public Transit
- Park-and-ride options are published by direction. From the north: Oak Grove (Orange Line and Haverhill commuter rail) or Wellington (Orange Line), both changing to the Green Line at North Station, or Anderson/Woburn on the Lowell line, also changing at North Station. From the south: Braintree or Quincy Adams on the Red Line, changing to the Green Line at Park Street, or Forest Hills on the Orange Line and Providence/Stoughton commuter rail to Ruggles Station. From the east: Wonderland on the Blue Line, changing to the Green Line at Government Center. From the west: Riverside on the Green Line D branch, or the Worcester line commuter rail to Lansdowne Station.
- Rideshare
- Uber/Lyft drop-off is on Brookline Avenue near the main entrance. Post-game pickup is chaotic. Walk to Kenmore Square or Boylston Street for faster rides and lower surge pricing. Expect 10-20 minutes from downtown Boston.
- Walking
- Lansdowne Station on the Worcester line sits beside the park. From Ruggles Station it is a 20 minute walk to Fenway.
Boston Red Sox Travel Gear
Clear bags, ponchos, and packable layers for getting to the gate.
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- Getting there
Fenway Park transportation and driving pages on mlb.com/redsox
- Transit
MBTA fares. Subway one-way $2.40 with CharlieCard, CharlieTicket, contactless or cash. Commuter Rail is priced by zone -- the published table runs 1A $2.40, Zone 1 $6.50, Zone 2 $7.00, Zone 3 $8.00 up to Zone 10 $13.25 -- so the stored $7 is the Zone 2 fare and the entry now says so. Naming the zone rather than inventing a suburb is what makes it checkable: the fare is a function of the zone, and a reader learns that it depends on where they board
- Lodging
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