Climate Pledge Arena Parking & Directions
Seattle Kraken · Seattle, WA
Know Before You Go
- Parking payments
Parking can be reserved and prepaid through the Kraken app or in advance through SpotHero.
The app displays participating lots with availability and pricing and generates a scannable parking pass.
- Cheapest lot
- $15
- Lots listed
- 2
- Closest
- 0.1-0.2 miles
Climate Pledge Arena operates the Arena and 1st Ave N garages; Seattle Center operates the 5th Ave Garage. Event parking can be purchased through venue links or the Kraken + CPA app. SpotHero also offers advance parking reservations.
Tips & Fan Reports
What fans who park here actually do, and what it cost them.
On Saturdays you can park for free at the Amazon garages and take the monorail to the arena. Stop by Pregame at the Armory to make a sign, pick up freebies, or get a free Kraken poster.
From SEA Airport, take light rail to Westlake and transfer to the 90-second Seattle Center Monorail.
Event tickets include a free King County transit pass valid two hours before through two hours after the event.
From the airport it is the Airport Line to Westlake, then the Monorail. No car needed.
The Monorail is a 90-second ride from downtown and takes ORCA or contactless.
Your match ticket is a free King County transit pass, good from two hours before to two hours after. No separate fare at all.
Allow about 40 minutes from SEA on I-5 without heavy traffic.
The Arena Garage has underground access and EV charging; pre-purchase through the Kraken app.
Where to Park
Climate Pledge Arena Garages
$400.1-0.2 miles
Arena Garage is underground with complimentary EV charging; 1st Ave N Garage is south across Lenny Wilkens Way.
- Pre-purchase event parking through the venue or Kraken + CPA app.
Lower Queen Anne Garages
$150.2-0.4 milesCheapest
Or Skip the Car
- Seattle Monorail to Seattle Center · $4 · The Monorail from Westlake Center drops you at the Seattle Center, a 5-minute walk to Climate Pledge Arena
- King County Metro Bus (Routes 3, 4, 13) · $3 · Multiple bus routes serve the Uptown/Queen Anne neighborhood adjacent to the arena
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- The Arena Garage and the 1st Ave N Garage are operated by the arena; the 5th Ave Garage, on the east side of campus, is operated by Seattle Center.
- The Arena Garage is accessed underground and has complimentary EV charging stations.
- The 1st Ave N Garage is south of the arena, across Lenny Wilkens Way.
- On non-event days only the Arena and 1st Ave N garages open, 6AM to midnight, at hourly and daily rates starting at $7 per hour plus tax.
- Non-event parking is walk-up only and cannot be pre-purchased.
- Event parking is pre-purchased through the venue links or the Kraken + CPA mobile app.
Accessible Parking
The two arena-operated garages hold the closest accessible parking; the Seattle Center garage is further out.
- The closest ADA parking is in the Arena Garage and the 1st Ave N Garage.
Getting There
Climate Pledge Arena does something no other venue in this data does: every ticket is a transit pass. Ticket holders ride King County buses and light rail free from two hours before an event to two hours after, and the Seattle Center Monorail covers the last leg from downtown in 90 seconds.
- Driving
- The arena is at 334 1st Ave N, reached from I-5. From SEA Airport, 15 miles south, allow about 40 minutes via I-5 without major delays. Three garages serve it: the Arena Garage with underground access and EV charging, the 1st Ave N Garage across Lenny Wilkens Way south of the arena, and the 5th Ave Garage on the east side of the Seattle Center campus. Parking is pre-purchased through the Kraken and CPA mobile app.
- Public Transit
- Every ticket holder gets a free King County public transit pass, valid from two hours before an event until two hours after, covering the bus network and light rail. The Seattle Center Monorail runs between downtown Seattle and Seattle Center in 90 seconds, a short walk from the arena, and takes ORCA cards and contactless payment. From SEA Airport, take the Airport Line light rail to Westlake Station and transfer to the Monorail.
- Rideshare
- Before an event, rideshare cannot drop off on 1st Ave N, and the best drop-off points are the MoPOP turnaround at Republican St and Warren Ave N, the McCaw Hall drop-off zone on Mercer St and the Pacific Science Center drop-off zone on Denny Way. In the period right after the event, rideshare cannot pick up on 1st Ave N, and the two pickup locations are the MoPOP museum and the Space Needle on Broad St.
- Walking
- From the Seattle Center Monorail station it is a short walk across the campus to the arena; the 1st Ave N Garage is just across Lenny Wilkens Way to the south.
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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 Climate Pledge Arena transportation page, read 2026-08-14: the three garages and who operates each, the non-event hourly rate and hours, the walk-up-only rule off event days, EV charging, the closest accessible garages, and app-based pre-purchase. Event-day rates, placard requirements, RV and bus policy and road closures are not published.
- Getting there
Climate Pledge Arena transportation page on climatepledgearena.com
- Transit
Seattle Center Monorail: adult one-way $4.00 (round trip $8.00, youth $2.00), cards and contactless only. King County Metro Prices: adult single ride $3.00 with ORCA
- Venue policies
Current Seattle Kraken game-day, mobile-app, and Climate Pledge Arena guest, accessibility, and food pages reviewed for Kraken 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 only figure is the non-event hourly rate, from $7 an hour plus tax; event parking is sold by pre-purchase without a figure. The 2026-07-27 figures were compiled from third-party listings (was: "Climate Pledge Arena 2026: lots typically $30-$50 per spot on Kraken game nights, with prepaid passes via the Kraken site, SpotHero or ParkWhiz").