Levi's Stadium Parking & Directions
San Francisco 49ers · Santa Clara, CA
- Cheapest lot
- $30
- Lots listed
- 4
- Closest
- 0.1-0.3 miles
Levi's Stadium sells parking by specified lot rather than offering an interchangeable space anywhere on campus. The stadium recommends buying a pass beforehand; event-day credit-card parking is limited and may cost more. Tailgating must fit within your party's parking stall and the area directly in front of or behind the vehicle.
Parking Maps
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Tips & Fan Reports
What fans who park here actually do, and what it cost them.
Take Caltrain to Mountain View and then the VTA rail directly to Levi's Stadium. Or take BART to Milpitas and transfer to the rail. Way better than driving and fighting for parking.
Be there early - arrive at least 15-30 minutes before parking opens and wait in line. Traffic gets brutal even if you're early. Save yourself the headache.
VTA light rail serves Great America Station on the stadium's north side.
Caltrain from San Francisco connects at Mountain View to VTA, a full car-free option from the city.
VTA buses drop at Tasman Drive and Great America Parkway, and at Tasman Drive and Calle Del Sol.
ACE trains run direct from the Central Valley: Stockton, Tracy, Livermore and Pleasanton among them.
From San Francisco it is Caltrain then a transfer to VTA's Orange Line at Mountain View, not a single ride.
Great America Station sits on the stadium's north side. VTA light rail is the closest approach.
Accessible courtesy transport from the station to the west gates is available on (408) 579-4610.
Where to Park
Blue Lot (General)
$600.2-0.5 miles
Blue 1 is one of the lots used for Early Entry Tailgate, which requires a prepaid parking pass.
- Buy parking before the event; the stadium warns that limited credit-card lots on the day may cost more.
- Tailgating takes place before kickoff.
Green Lot (Preferred)
$850.1-0.3 miles
Blue 1 and Green 1 have season-long prepaid parking passes for season ticket members.
- The stadium encourages buying a parking pass beforehand.
Red Lot (VIP/Premium)
$1500.1 miles
The stadium identifies Red Lot 1 as the accessible parking location, requiring both a parking pass and a valid disabled placard or plate.
Great America Overflow Lots
$300.5-0.8 milesCheapest
Or Skip the Car
- VTA Light Rail (Great America Station) · $2.5 · VTA light rail drops you at Great America station, a 10-minute walk to Levi's Stadium. Connects from downtown San Jose.
- Caltrain (from San Francisco, 4 zones) + VTA transfer to Great America · $13.25 · Take Caltrain from San Francisco to Mountain View, then VTA light rail to Great America station near the stadium
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- Parking lots open 3.5 hours before the start of the event or kickoff and close two hours after it ends.
- All parking lots use cashless transactions.
- Refunds are not made for lost, stolen or unused parking passes. A refund or credit is made only if the event is cancelled.
- Prices differ by event, and credit-card lots on the day are limited and may cost more than a pre-paid pass.
- Advance parking is arranged through the Visa Box Office on 408-579-4449, or Parking.Request@49ers-smc.com.
Not Allowed In
- The standard lots are limited to vehicles under 17 feet in length and 8 feet in width.
- Buses and RVs cannot use the standard lots and must arrange parking in advance.
Accessible Parking
Accessible parking is in Red Lot 1, and a placard alone is not enough. You need a parking pass as well, either pre-paid for any lot or bought at the Red Lot 1 entrance on the day. When it fills, staff direct you to a mobility-friendly lot with a courtesy shuttle.
- Accessible parking is located in Red Lot 1.
- You need a valid DMV-issued Disabled Person Placard or Licence Plate AND a parking pass.
- The placard or plate must be displayed and visible at all times while parked.
- Either show a pre-paid pass for any Levi's Stadium lot alongside the placard, or pay for a game-day accessible pass at the entrance to Red Lot 1.
- When accessible parking fills, holders are directed to a mobility-friendly lot with a courtesy shuttle: Red Lot 7, Pink Lots 4/5 or Green Lot 8.
- Accessible drop-off is on Patrick Henry Drive, at Gate C.
- Pre-game mobility carts and shuttles run from several lots, and post-game services return guests from Gate C or Gate A.
Game-day help: (408) 579-4610
RV Parking
RVs cannot use the standard lots, which cap at 17 feet. Anything larger has to be arranged in advance by phone or email.
- Buses or RVs wanting to buy parking in advance must call 408-579-4449 or email Parking.Request@49ers-smc.com.
- The standard lots are limited to vehicles under 17 feet long and 8 feet wide.
Bus & Limo Parking
Buses are handled the same way as RVs, arranged in advance rather than sold online.
- Buses wanting to buy parking in advance must call 408-579-4449 or email Parking.Request@49ers-smc.com.
- Buses exceed the 17-foot limit that applies to the standard lots.
Getting There
Levi's Stadium is reached by more separate rail operators than any other NFL venue here: VTA light rail stops at Great America Station on the stadium's north side, and ACE and Capitol Corridor run in from the Central Valley and the Sacramento corridor respectively. Driving is the one leg the stadium declines to document, offering an address box rather than a route.
- Driving
- The stadium publishes no driving route: its directions page is an address box that generates step-by-step directions, and it points event-day drivers to the parking pages, where the route varies by which lot you hold.
- Public Transit
- VTA light rail drops off and picks up at Great America Station on the north side of the stadium, with service to Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Milpitas, San Jose, Santa Clara and Campbell. VTA buses serve Mountain View, Cupertino and Sunnyvale, dropping at Tasman Drive and Great America Parkway and at Tasman Drive and Calle Del Sol. From San Francisco, Caltrain riders transfer to VTA light rail's Orange Line at Mountain View station. ACE trains run direct from Stockton, Lathrop/Manteca, Tracy, Vasco, Livermore, Pleasanton and Fremont. Capitol Corridor serves the stadium from Auburn, Sacramento, Davis, Martinez, Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward, Fremont and San Jose among others.
- Rideshare
- Rideshare drop-off is along the bus stop south of Great America Parkway, and rideshare pickup is at Red Lot 7. Friends and family dropping off or picking up guests use the same places.
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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 guidance
Official Levi's Stadium parking FAQs and accessible-parking pages, read 2026-08-14: the 3.5-hour opening and two-hour closing, cashless lots, the refund policy, the 17ft by 8ft vehicle limit on the standard lots, advance arrangement for buses and RVs, and the Red Lot 1 accessible operation with its placard-and-pass requirement, overflow shuttle lots, Patrick Henry Drive drop-off and cart service. No per-lot prices are published. The venue states they differ by event and that day-of credit-card lots may cost more than pre-paid.
- Getting there
Levi's Stadium public transportation and directions pages on levisstadium.com
- Transit
VTA "Single Ride $2.50" (cash or Clipper), Day Pass $7.50. The other entry bundles two operators’ fares into one number and named neither trip: Caltrain is zoned -- 1 Zone $4.00, 2 Zones $6.25, 3 Zones $8.50, 4 Zones $10.75 -- and Santa Clara, the station for Levi’s Stadium, is Zone 4 against San Francisco’s Zone 1. So the full-length ride is the 4-zone $10.75 plus a $2.50 VTA fare to Great America, $13.25 together. The stored $7 was neither leg nor the sum. Driving entries carry no transit fare by definition
- Venue policies
Levi's Stadium A-Z, bag-policy, and accessible-services pages reviewed for visitor-facing venue 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 lots are cashless and prepaid passes are recommended, but no lot carries a figure. The 2026-07-27 figures were compiled from third-party listings (was: "Levi's Stadium 2026: official advance passes $50-$160, averaging about $85; theme park lots $30-$40 with a 10-15 minute walk; venue is fully cashless and prepaid").