American Airlines Center Parking
Dallas Mavericks · Dallas, TX
Know Before You Go
Essential details checked against official venue information.
- Parking payments
American Airlines Center parking is cashless and accepts credit cards, debit cards, mobile wallets, and prepaid parking passes.
Applies to: Dallas Mavericks games
- Parking passes are available for advance purchase; overnight parking and in-and-out privileges are not allowed.
- Cheapest lot
- $40
- Lots listed
- 2
- Closest
- 0.1-0.2 miles
American Airlines Center is in the Victory Park district of Dallas. DART light rail Victory Station is adjacent. Victory Park development has pregame restaurants and bars. Garages $15-25.
Parking Maps
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Tips & Fan Reports
What fans who park here actually do, and what it cost them.
DART rail from Victory Station is the stress-free option at $3 each way.
Rideshare pickup is on Houston Street. Walk a block from the arena for faster pickups.
Post-game traffic on I-35E and Stemmons (I-35E) gets congested. Wait 20 minutes or take DART.
Pre-purchase parking for big games, the Platinum lot sells out.
If driving from the north, approach via I-35E South to Wycliff Avenue.
Where to Park
AAC Official Parking
$400.1-0.2 milesCheapest
Garages and lots at American Airlines Center. Advance purchase through Mavs app.
- Advance purchase recommended
- Multiple garages around arena
- Victory Park area
Victory Park / Uptown Garages
$150.2-0.4 milesEstimated price
Garages in the Victory Park development and Uptown Dallas. Walk through shops and restaurants.
- $10-20 range
- Victory Park has great pregame
- Walk to arena
Or Skip the Car
- DART Light Rail — $3 · DART Victory Station is adjacent to American Airlines Center. Green and Orange lines. $2.50 fare.
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- The Lexus Garage opens at noon on event days. The other lots open two hours before the event and stay open two hours after it ends.
- Overnight parking and in-and-out privileges are not permitted.
- Comerica Garage, 2503 Victory Ave, takes credit and debit cards and pre-paid passes only.
- Commons Garage is at 2601 Victory Ave; D Garage at 2400 Victory Ave, 0.1 miles from the South entrance; Lot K at 2235 Victory Avenue, 0.3 miles from the north-west corner.
- Lexus Garage is at 2620 N. Houston St across from the East Entrance, with an 8ft 2in clearance and 50 designated Lexus spots per event.
- Lot A at 3098 Nowitzki Way is a players' reserved lot for Stars games and pass-only for Mavericks games. Lot E at 2617 Victory Ave is pass-only.
- Grilling, open flames, food preparation and drinking alcohol are not permitted in the parking areas.
- There are over 5,000 spaces in total, with more than 3,000 to the south and east.
Accessible Parking
Lot F is accessible parking only, and unusually it needs no parking pass at all — 105 spaces, first come, first served, directly across from the North entrance.
- Lot F, at 2721 North Houston Street across from the North entrance, is ADA parking only.
- It has 105 spaces, first come, first served.
- No parking pass is required for Lot F.
Bus & Limo Parking
Buses park off-site at the Inspiration Lot, about 0.8 miles from the arena's north-west corner, at a published per-event rate.
- Bus parking is the Inspiration Lot, 1530 Inspiration Dr, 0.8 miles from the north-west corner.
- It is $40 for Mavericks games and $50 for Stars games, or $50 for third-party events.
Dallas Mavericks Car Gear
Window flags, plate frames, and decals to fly Dallas Mavericks colors in the lot.
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- Parking prices
American Airlines Center parking page: game parking is priced per tenant, Mavs $40 and Stars $50, third-party events $50. The Victory Park garages and DART fares are not published there.
- Parking guidance
Official American Airlines Center parking page, read 2026-08-14: every garage and lot with its street address, height clearances, which are pass-only, the staggered opening times and two-hour post-event closing, the overnight and in-and-out bans, the ADA-only Lot F with its space count and no-pass rule, the Inspiration bus lot with its per-team rates, the lot conduct rules, and the parking map. Hourly rates for the general garages are not published, and there is no RV policy or road-closure information.
- Venue policies
Current American Airlines Center FAQ, accessibility, food-and-beverage, ticketing, and app pages reviewed for Dallas Mavericks game-day policies.