Smoothie King Center Parking & Directions
New Orleans Pelicans · New Orleans, LA
Know Before You Go
- Parking payments
Smoothie King Center garages accept credit or debit cards only, and event parking can be purchased in advance through the official EventPass page.
Not every garage or surface lot is available for every event; check the game listing and official parking page before traveling.
- Cheapest lot
- $15
- Lots listed
- 2
- Closest
- 0.1-0.2 miles
Smoothie King Center shares the Superdome campus's seven public garages and two surface lots, with roughly 7,000 spaces. EventPass offers advance event parking for the arena.
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.
Uber to and from the arena if you are staying in the French Quarter. It is a 50 minute walk and not the best route at night. The concessions inside are overpriced, so sneak in what you need.
A public transportation stop is on Poydras Street opposite Superdome Gate A at ground level.
The transit stop is on Poydras Street, opposite the Superdome at Gate A ground level.
Rideshare is a 5-minute walk north of the campus on Poydras Street, through Champions Square.
The arena names no streetcar line or RTA route; plan that leg at norta.com.
Seven garages and two lots hold about 7,000 cars, but not all open for every event. Check before relying on a particular one.
Where to Park
Smoothie King Center Lots
$250.1-0.2 miles
The arena is served by surface Lots 3 and 4 alongside the shared Superdome garages.
- Buy advance parking through JustPark EventPass.
Downtown / Warehouse District Garages
$150.3-0.5 milesCheapest
Or Skip the Car
- RTA Streetcar (St. Charles / Rampart-St. Claude) · $1.25 · Streetcar lines run near the arena. The Rampart line stops on Loyola Avenue.
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- The complex has seven public parking garages (1, 1A, 2, 2A, 5, 6 and Champions), plus surface Lots 3 and 4, holding roughly 7,000 vehicles between them.
- Parking garages accept credit or debit cards only.
- Rideshare drop-off and pick-up is on Poydras Street, between Clara Street and Loyola Avenue.
- The Superdome parking office is on 504-587-3805; the Champions Garage office is on 504-587-3971.
- Event parking is also sold through JustPark EventPass.
Getting There
The Smoothie King Center shares its campus and its car parks with the Superdome: seven garages and two surface lots holding around 7,000 vehicles between them, not all of which open for every event. Its transit answer is a single named point: a public transportation stop on Poydras Street, across from the Superdome at Gate A ground level.
- Driving
- The arena is at 1501 Dave Dixon Dr. It publishes no route in, directing drivers to its parking pages. The campus has seven public parking garages (numbers 1, 1A, 2, 2A, 5, 6 and the Champions Garage), plus surface Lots 3 and 4, together holding about 7,000 vehicles. Not all of them open for every event.
- Public Transit
- A public transportation stop sits on Poydras Street, across from the Superdome at Gate A ground level. The arena names no individual streetcar line or RTA route, so check norta.com for which service you need.
- Rideshare
- Rideshare drop-off and pickup use one designated, geo-fenced zone on Poydras Street, north of the Smoothie King Center campus, and drop-offs happen only there. After the event, walk through Champions Square following the Rideshare Pickup signs, and request the ride once you reach the zone.
- Walking
- The rideshare zone is on Poydras Street north of the campus, within a 5-minute walk, reached through Champions Square.
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How We Checked This Page
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- Parking guidance
Official Smoothie King Center directions and parking page, read 2026-08-14: the shared Superdome complex garages and surface lots with their combined capacity, card-only payment, the Poydras Street rideshare zone, the parking offices, and the complex and rideshare maps. No rates, hours, ADA rules, RV or bus policy or road closures are published.
- Getting there
Smoothie King Center A-to-Z guide on smoothiekingcenter.com
- Transit
New Orleans RTA fare table: adult bus/streetcar $1.25 single ride, ferry $2.00, 1-Day Jazzy Pass $3.00. Both New Orleans venues describe the same operator and stored two different numbers for it. Walking entries carry no transit fare by definition
- Venue policies
Current New Orleans Pelicans and Smoothie King Center fan, accessibility, parking, and dining guidance reviewed for Pelicans policies.
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 page gives directions and no rate. The 2026-07-27 figures were compiled from third-party listings (was: "Smoothie King Center 2026: on-site surface lots and garages $10-$35; event rates begin at $20 for the Champions Garage and typically run higher for Pelicans games").