Getting to Benchmark International Arena
Tampa Bay Lightning · Tampa, FL
The Lightning's arena publishes its parking by arrival direction and gives a walking distance and time for every lot — from a 0.1 mile, three-minute walk at the Teal Lot and Pam Iorio Garage out to 0.4 miles and nine minutes from the Florida Aquarium Lot. Two of the garages connect by the TECO Streetcar, which is free.
Tips & Fan Reports
The arena publishes no driving route; set your app to 401 Channelside Drive.
The TECO Streetcar is free and serves the Fort Brooke and Channelside garages.
Every lot has a published walking distance and time — from three minutes at the Teal Lot to nine from the Florida Aquarium Lot.
Parking is organised by the direction you arrive from rather than by price.
Ways In
- Driving
- The arena is at 401 Channelside Drive. It publishes no interstate route or exit, organising parking by the direction you arrive from — north and west, west, south, east — with several garages and lots under each, and pointing drivers to Waze for the route itself.
- Public Transit
- The TECO Streetcar runs free to the arena, and both the Fort Brooke Garage and the Channelside Parking Garage are served by it. The arena names no streetcar stop and no bus route, so check the operator for that leg.
- Rideshare
- Uber/Lyft drop-off is on Channelside Drive near the main entrance. Post-game pickup is in a designated zone. Budget $25-35 from St. Petersburg, $40-50 from Clearwater.
- Walking
- Walking distances are published per lot: 0.1 mile, about three minutes, from the Teal Lot and the Pam Iorio Garage, out to 0.4 miles and about nine minutes from the Florida Aquarium Lot.
Tampa Bay Lightning Travel Gear
Clear bags, ponchos, and packable layers for getting to the gate.
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- Getting there
Benchmark International Arena parking page on benchmarkintlarena.com
- Transit
HART’s own blog confirms the streetcar is free in 2026: "Take the FREE Streetcar from Ybor (Station #2) to Downtown (Station #10)". The Pirate Water Taxi sells no single ride at all -- its published products are an "All-Day Pass" at $34 adult and a $199.95 annual membership -- so the stored $10 was not one of its fares. The entry now names the product it prices
- Lodging
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