Smoothie King Center Parking
New Orleans Pelicans · New Orleans, LA
Know Before You Go
Essential details checked against official venue information.
- 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.
Applies to: New Orleans Pelicans games
- 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 is in downtown New Orleans adjacent to the Caesars Superdome. Walkable from French Quarter (~15-20 min). Same transit options as Saints games. Warehouse District pregame is a local favorite.
Parking Maps
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Tips & Fan Reports
What fans who park here actually do, and what it cost them.
Post-game traffic near the Superdome campus can be slow. Walk to the Quarter instead.
If staying in the French Quarter, just walk. It's 20 minutes and the scenery is unbeatable.
The streetcar is a scenic and affordable option from the Garden District or Uptown.
New Orleans parking is affordable, $10-25 gets you within walking distance.
Street parking is available but check signs carefully, some areas are residential permit only.
Where to Park
Smoothie King Center Lots
$250.1-0.2 miles
Official lots adjacent to the arena in the downtown New Orleans sports district.
- Adjacent to arena
- Near Superdome
- Advance purchase recommended
Downtown / Warehouse District Garages
$150.3-0.5 milesCheapest
Garages in the Warehouse District and CBD. Walk to arena.
- $10-20 range
- Warehouse District has great bars
- Short walk
Or Skip the Car
- RTA Streetcar / Walk from French Quarter — $2 · Streetcar on Loyola Avenue near the arena. $1.25 fare. French Quarter is a 15-20 min walk.
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.
New Orleans Pelicans Car Gear
Window flags, plate frames, and decals to fly New Orleans Pelicans colors in the lot.
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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.
- 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").