Rate Field Parking & Directions
Chicago White Sox · Chicago, IL
Know Before You Go
- Parking payments
Official White Sox parking staff accept credit and debit cards only.
Advance parking is available through the official parking page and currently saves $10; limited day-of-game online and in-person parking may be available.
- Cheapest lot
- $10
- Lots listed
- 2
- Closest
- 0.1-0.3 miles
Rate Field parking is split into North and South passes, each valid only on the purchased side. Parking can sell out and offsite space is not guaranteed, so the club urges advance purchase. Official parking is cashless, and tailgating is permitted within the vehicle's space without blocking lanes.
Road Closures on Game Day
- Road closures around the ballpark are in effect for every game and event at Rate Field, which is why the club pushes transit and rideshare so hard.
- The club publishes a road closure map alongside the parking map, worth checking against your route before you set off.
Parking Maps
Find your lot and plan your route. Maps open in a new tab so you can keep this guide handy.
Tips & Fan Reports
What fans who park here actually do, and what it cost them.
Tailgating ends at the start of the game and is prohibited afterward.
CTA's Red Line serves Sox-35th beside the ballpark.
The club says prepaid parking saves $10.
Transit details live under P in the A-to-Z guide, not on a transportation page. The club's own site makes them hard to find.
Sox-35th on the Red Line is effectively the ballpark's own station.
Metra's Rock Island Line stops at 35th Street just east of the Dan Ryan, which suits arrivals from the south-west suburbs.
CTA can be reached on 312.836.7000 for route and schedule questions.
Where to Park
Rate Field Lots
$220.1-0.3 miles
Official parking is divided into route-specific North, VIP, premium and South lots.
- Tailgate inside your own space and keep pathways and traffic clear.
Bridgeport / Armour Square Lots
$100.3-0.5 milesCheapest
Fans reported 1 price
- $25
Or Skip the Car
- CTA Red Line to 35th-Bronzeville-IIT · $2.5 · The Red Line station is adjacent to the stadium, the best transit option. Connects to the Loop and North Side in minutes.
- Metra Rock Island Line to 35th Street · $3.75 · Commuter rail from the south suburbs to 35th Street, a short walk to the stadium
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- Lots typically open two hours before first pitch. The club confirms the exact time for your game in its "Know Before You Go" email.
- Parking here genuinely sells out, and offsite parking is not guaranteed. Buy before the day of the game.
- Your pass is valid only for the side you bought. A North Lot pass will not get you into the South lots, and it cannot be sorted out at the gate.
- Each lot has its own approach: Red North Lots A, C and G and Yellow Premium Lot B via 33rd Street and Wells; Black VIP Lot D and Purple South Premium Lot E via Wentworth and 37th Street; Green South Lots F and L via 39th Street and Princeton.
- All parking payments are cashless. White Sox parking staff wear a club name tag, and no one working for the club will ever collect payment outside a parking lot. Do not hand your card to anyone who approaches you on the street.
Accessible Parking
Accessible parking sits in Lots B, C and E, and which one you are sent to depends on your ticket rather than your preference. You need both a parking pass and a state-issued placard or plate: the placard alone is not enough.
- Designated ADA spaces are in Lot B, Lot C and Lot E, and require a parking pass plus a state-issued disabled placard or plate.
- Rate Club, Suite and CIBC Scout Club ticket holders with a permit are directed to the marked ADA parking in Lot E.
- North or South lot guests holding ADA parking passes are directed to Lot C.
- Accessible stalls go first come, first served. Once they are full, staff direct fans to the nearest lot with standard stalls still open.
Bus & Limo Parking
Lot A serves as both the bus lot and the rideshare lot, on the north side of the ballpark.
- Buses use Lot A, entered from Wentworth Avenue before 35th Street.
Getting There
Rate Field is one of the few ballparks with a rapid transit station effectively at its gates, Sox-35th on the CTA Red Line, plus a Metra stop on the Rock Island Line a short way east. The club buries all of this in its A-to-Z guide under P rather than giving it a transportation page, which understates how well served the ballpark is.
- Driving
- The ballpark sits alongside the Dan Ryan Expressway, with the Metra stop at 35th Street just east of it. The club publishes no route in of its own; arrival guidance lives in the A-to-Z guide rather than on a directions page.
- Public Transit
- Rate Field is just off the Sox-35th station on the CTA Red Line, and a number of bus routes serve the area. The Metra stop is at 35th Street just east of the Dan Ryan Expressway, on the Rock Island Line.
- Rideshare
- Rideshare drop-off and pickup are both at the Rideshare Lot in Lot A, on the Wentworth Avenue side. Riders enter and exit the ballpark through Gate 5, and the lot stays open until one hour after home games end.
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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 prices
Rate Field publishes twelve rates across three lot groups, split by advance versus day-of and by Sunday versus the rest of the week. The floor is $15, for the Red North (A, C, G) or Green South (F, L) lots on a Sunday bought in advance; the non-Sunday advance rate is $22 and day-of is $35. The stored $20 was none of the twelve. The Neighborhood Lots entry was not re-checked.
- Parking guidance
Official Rate Field parking page read through a browser: lot opening times, the sell-out warning, lot-designation enforcement, colour-coded access routes, ADA routing by ticket type, the cashless fraud warning, road closures, and both 2026 map PDFs.
- Getting there
Rate Field A-to-Z information guide on mlb.com/whitesox
- Transit
CTA Fare Information table ('L' train $2.50) and Metra fare table (one-way ticket, zones 1-2, $3.75). Both 35th Street stations are Zone 1, as is the downtown terminal
- Venue policies
Current White Sox Rate Field information, disability-access, and concessions guidance reviewed for entry, family, payment, food, parking, and accessibility rules.