Caesars Superdome Tailgating
New Orleans Saints · New Orleans, LA
Tailgating is not allowed on Champions Square property or in the Superdome parking facilities, and unauthorised tailgating is strictly prohibited. What exists instead is a sanctioned, ticketed event: the Champions Square Tailgate, which opens three hours before kickoff with entertainment finishing 45 minutes before the game. It is open only to ticketed guests, who are screened and have tickets scanned at one of two street-level entrances — LaSalle Street by Dave Dixon Drive, or Sugar Bowl Drive. Parking across the Superdome, Smoothie King Center and Champions Square complex runs to about 7,000 vehicles across seven garages and two surface lots, all card-only, with no re-entry and no overnight parking.
Tips & Fan Reports
Hit the Rouses Grocery a few blocks away and buy some canned local beers. You can bring one unopened beer into Champion Square. Grab food at the food trucks there and enjoy the live music.
Entertainment stops 45 minutes before kickoff, so the square empties well before the game rather than right at it.
Every garage is card-only, and there is no re-entry once you are parked.
Do not plan a lot tailgate. The Superdome permits none, and the sanctioned Champions Square Tailgate is the whole of the official pregame here.
Champions Square needs a game ticket — you are screened and scanned at the gate, so it is not a walk-up for a non-attending friend.
Where to Tailgate
Champions Square Tailgate
The sanctioned Saints pregame event, opening three hours before kickoff with entertainment concluding 45 minutes before the game. Ticketed guests only, entered at street level from LaSalle Street by Dave Dixon Drive or from Sugar Bowl Drive after screening and a ticket scan.
Known for Opens 3 hours before kickoff · Ticketed guests only · Two street-level entrances
The seven public garages
Garages numbered 1, 1A, 2, 2A, 5, 6 and the Champions Garage, part of a complex accommodating roughly 7,000 vehicles. They accept credit and debit cards only, and no tailgating happens in any of them.
Known for Card only · No tailgating · ~7,000 spaces complex-wide
Lot 3 and Lot 4
The two surface lots serving the Superdome, Smoothie King Center and Champions Square complex. Like the garages they permit no tailgating, and re-entry and overnight parking are prohibited throughout.
Known for Surface parking · No re-entry · No overnight parking
Rules to Know
What Caesars Superdome allows, and what it does not.
- Tailgating is not allowed on Champions Square property or in the parking facilities.
- Solicitations of any type, and unauthorised tailgating, are strictly prohibited.
- The Champions Square Tailgate opens three hours prior to kickoff, and entertainment concludes 45 minutes before kickoff.
- Champions Square is available only to ticketed guests. Guests are screened and tickets are scanned at the two street-level Champions Square Tailgate entrances, on LaSalle Street by Dave Dixon Drive or on Sugar Bowl Drive.
- The complex has seven public parking garages — 1, 1A, 2, 2A, 5, 6 and Champions Garage — and two surface lots, Lot 3 and Lot 4, accommodating approximately 7,000 vehicles.
- Re-entry and overnight parking are prohibited.
- Parking garages accept credit and debit cards only.
What to Bring
- A bag the gate will accept
The Caesars Superdome permits a clear bag no larger than 12 x 6 x 12 inches, a one-gallon clear freezer bag, and a clutch no larger than 6.5 x 4.5 inches.
- Only the outside food and drink the rule allows
Outside food and beverages are not allowed in the Caesars Superdome.
- A card or a phone wallet
The Caesars Superdome is cashless for concessions and merchandise and accepts cards and major contactless wallets.
- Your tickets on a charged phone
Saints tickets and parking passes are 100% mobile and should be downloaded through the Saints or SeatGeek app before arrival.
- A layer for the walk in
January evenings average 47°F outside Caesars Superdome.
- Water for the walk in
September highs average 90°F outside Caesars Superdome.
- A rain layer for the walk in
September averages 5.7 inches of rain outside Caesars Superdome.
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- Pregame
Caesars Superdome official site: A to Z Guide, Directions & Parking, and the Parking & Tailgating Policies document
- Venue policies
Current New Orleans Saints A-to-Z and ADA guides plus the Caesars Superdome venue guide reviewed for all structured venue-policy topics.
- Weather
NOAA 1991-2020 Climate Normals