Rating The Transit To EVERY MLB Stadium! 

That is an offensive ranking for the Nationals. The green line literally has a stop called Navy Yard-Ballpark and the land use around the stadium has gotten quite good.

Nationals Park is CRAZY underrated

Nats Park is way underrated in this ranking. Opening day this year the station serving the stadium saw 40,000 total trips - a post pandemic high. Also tons of new development recently delivered and under construction.

As a Bostonian, I have to agree with the Nats fans: ya shafted DC.

Taking the 4 train, exiting the tunnel into the sunlight, then pulling into the stadium with tons of other fans there to see the Yankee game is an iconic experience.

I'm already a suffering NATS fan..But the one thing Nats have is A Ton of transit to Nationals Park - Bus lines 74, P6, V1, V4, A9, W9 and DC Circulator all get you very close to the stadium. MetroRail on a big attendance night might be waiting for the next train, The platforms at Navy Yard/Ballpark Station are really quite large and can accommodate thousands of people. at a time.

I was in Tysons Corner, VA for a meeting and decided to watch a Nats game. Couldnt have been easier to get to the stadium and hang out afterward. Nats are underated here. And this is from a Yankee fan.

As a Sox fan I hate to admit it but I can agree with Yankee Stadium at #1. There’s a special Metro-North train on Yankees game days that will take you from New Haven, CT directly to the stadium without any transfers. That’s impressive considering it’s over 2 hours away.

Citi Field’s land use will be different real soon. You didn’t mention it but NYCFC are building their new stadium there, and several other projects are going down as well.

I gotta severely disagree with the rating of Nats park, seriously. By land use around the stadium and proximity of the transit station and minimal parking the stadiums amazing. It deserves atleast top 10 and not to be put with other stadiums that have parking lot seas around them

WOOOOOOO Baseball season! The history of Baseball is the history of Urban Planning!

Saint Louis is heavily underrated. There is a line that drops you off right outside the stadium and after the game they are able to separate people going east and west pretty easily. I lived 30 minutes out from Busch when I lived there and never had a problem getting to the stadium on the Metro.

Oracle Field of the Giants just got a brand new MUNI subway line, the Central Subway that has a station two blocks from the stadium, next to the Caltrain depot. That's in addition to the current Embarcadero line that connects directly to BART. BART brings people from the East Bay and south of the city. The nearest BART station, Embarcadero, is a short, beautiful walk to the ballpark. Many people walk, but it's a quick light rail ride otherwise. Another new development is the construction of a mixed use development across from the ballpark that includes offices, restaurants, shops and a waterfront park to kick it at before the game. Not to mention the improved ferry service and excellent city bus options.

As someone who works for the Wells Fargo Center in Philly, I will say that the parking lots suck, but the station is not too far and there are wide sidewalks in between. They are planning to develop some of the lots tho so that’s nice… NOW EXTEND REGIONAL RAIL DOWN THERE!

The Nats and Phillies are two low. Both among the highest of rail users per game. Also DC has a whole neighborhood around it. For CPB and Citi both are building an entertainment district and in the case of CBP will include residential and commercial

MBTA has famously bad reliability, but 3 out of the 4 Green Line rail Iines run to Kenmore station + the D line at a designated Fenway stop (Kenmore is still closer, btw). On top of the Commuter rail stop next to the park + endless bus routes. But aside from transit, Fenway is probably the most walkable stadium area next to Wrigley. It's insane how dense and lively that area is in comparison to any other stadium.... but I'm also a huge redsox fan (and from Boston), so I might be tad biased here giving the yankees a higher ranking than us...

30 years ago I was trying to visit every stadium and often used public transit because that was my nature. (Side note: gave up on my quest because stadiums I had visited kept getting replaced.) Went to a game at The Big A in Anaheim. 40,000+ in attendance. Post game public transit consisted of exactly one city bus that left 30 minutes after last out. There were six of us on the bus. Public transit wasn’t exactly a thing in Orange County back in the day. But they are still the only bus system I’ve ridden that has dedicated space for surf boards, so I’ll give them that.

Cool video idea! One comment from the mid Atlantic though, transit to Nationals Park in great with very good Metro service, definitely faster and more reliable than what you get in Minneapolis or Baltimore for example. I've also gotta point out, the Camden Line does not run on weekends or late enough to use to take to games, so Camden Yards is definitely overrated from that (local transit is fine, but IMO Nats Park wins.over Camden Yards).

I live just outside of San Diego and never take my car to Petco Park because I don’t need to. I can walk 25 steps from my bedroom to the bus stop outside my house, use the bus to go to the trolley and use the trolley to get to the stadium. It is awesome and super convenient.

Nats Park below Camden Yards?! Come on man.

I mean, Angel Stadium has a Metrolink station while Dodgers only have busses AND is up a hill, so, you know, maybe swap those two.

Damn, I skipped to the top 3 expecting Wrigley field. There's no parking lots in that entire neighborhood. Literally no car parking. Brown line, Red line, buses. Guess I need to check out the other places. I've been to SF and I guess I can agree, but the immediate area sorrounding it isn't very pedestrian friendly. At least from what I remember.

The Blue Jays also have a skywalk from Union station that leads directly to the ballpark/CN tower area!

Man, I'm having a really hard time with this one. I've been to every MLB stadium and, I can tell you from experience, these rankings aren't accurate at all. Firstly, to rank Nationals Park so low is a disservice. That park is very easy to get to via public transit. PNC Park as well. On the flip side, I did take public transit to Wrigley Field and it was an absolute nightmare. One of the worst around. It was WAY easier to get to Guaranteed Rate. Dodger Stadium? Tropicana Field? These ones absolutely suck as well.

Taking the 4 Train to Yankee Stadium, especially your first time there is a great experience. You’re underground coming uptown the entire time and the first time you come above ground, bam, the stadium is right there. You come down under the el tracks and all the bars/restaurants/souvenir stands and commotion. It’s incredible.

Angel Stadium is right across the parking from Anaheim ARTIC station they actually have special time train service for games. Dodger stadium almost as good, from Union station, a free designated bus gets you to all games.

I would be willing to say that National's Park has better connections that even Fenway. The Fenway station on the Green Line is almost a half mile away and runs something like 15 minute service. The Kenmore station is a bit closer at a third of a mile, but you have to snake your way over a highway to get there. It does have better service though as it has 3 branches running through it. National's park has the metro station a block away and it was built as a high capacity entrance. Probable 75%-80% of people take the green line there. As other's have mentioned, the standard service is 8 minutes with special gameday service decreasing headways. Add to the fact that you are only 2 stops from L'Enfant where is connects with the Yellow, Blue, Orange, and Silver lines and it is really well connected to the region. Go 2 more stops and you hit the Red connecting ever line within 4 stops. If you really want to throw it in there, VRE connects to L'Enfant also. Not to mention the 6 or so bus lines that connect at the station. I'd be willing to say it has better transit than Oracle Park also. Oracle park has the train station a block away that connects it to the further out places of the region. But you have to take a light rail along the waterfront or walk a quarter mile and take a different light rail line another mile to even connect it to BART and the rest of the city. Both of those lines are surface running so you can get stuck in traffic also.

Nats Park at #12 has got to be trolling, right?

Quick correction: only the Hudson Line really serves Yankee Stadium for MNR; the local Harlem line stops at Melrose, from which you can take the bx6 a few stops or walk 20 minutes.

While I didn't expect Nats Park to be in the top 2-3, leaving outside the scope of the top 10 is ludicrous. While it only has one metro line directly connected to the ball park, the size and scope of the DC Metro system is second to only NYC. L'Enfant Plaza is only two stops to the north of the stadium and services 4 of the other 5 lines in the system (it also services the VRE light rail line). Gallery Place, which services the only line not serviced by L'Enfant Plaza, is only 4 stops to the north and Gallery Place is where the arena for the Wizards and Capitals play. Sufficient to say many of the comments agree that you botched this ranking.

I'm bias as a Minnesota Twins fan, but I would say Target Field is one of the easiest to get to. There is a light rail that pulls up to the front of the stadium that leads to multiple parking locations around the greater metro area, including the Mall of America. There are three parking garages connected by skywalks to the stadium and multiple small local lots within a six-block walking area. There is also a private parking lot for the VIP section behind home plate. I've used all of these options, and the field is very easy to access. I think there is also a bus line, but I have not taken it; however, private busses can pull up to the front of the stadium.

Target Field opened BEFORE the Metrodome roof collapsed.

My only complaint is allowing the Yankees to have ANYTHING nice.

comiskey should absolutely be higher, you can’t have stadiums like mets, camden yards, and target field ranked higher when they have less access, its accessed by the 39,35,29, and 24 buses also by the redline for north and south siders, greenline for the west and southsiders, and rock island metra for south and southwest suburbs(soon to be southwest service line too in 2025) i understand it’s in a concrete jungle but it is absolutely easily accessible without a car, i think it should be closer to the top 5

One thing about Camden: while there is a Marc right outside, it only runs on weekdays and during commuting hours. It really only works for an afternoon weekday game. You can get to Penn via the light rail, but it’s not great.

I know it's been 20 yrs since the Expos left, but it was very easy and swift to get to a game by metro.

I've gone to Yankee games on the B D and 4 subway trains, MNR shuttle from Grand Central and Hudson Line from all the way in Poughkeepsie, Bx6 SBS rapid bus service, and even CitiBike. The only thing it's missing is a connection to the NYC Ferry network.

The 7 train for the Mets is so beloved that the traveling fan club is named after it. When John Rocker in the 90s verbally attacked the people who take the 7 train, the whole fan base rose up against him. Citi Field should be higher because it would literally be stupid to try to go there by car due to the traffic and parking costs. Always take the 7 train.

You ranked Cincinnati too high. The streetcar only serves downtown. The rest of us are limited to buses to a downtown hub which is not at the stadium and gets sketchy after five. So we drive.

I regularly bike to Coors Field and I have family living a bit further away that love the light rail!

I live near Arlington, Texas. I mostly attend Stars & Mavericks games because I can take the light rail to the arena they both play at. The reason I don't go to more Rangers & Cowboys games is because it's impossible to access their stadiums without a car. Moreover, parking during gamedays is expensive and abysmal.

Correction on the Seattle light rail: the 2 line won't be opening on the west side of Lake Washingtn until 2025. The April 27th opening is just for the east side of the line as they still need to do a ton of work to fix the issues plaguing the section that goes over the I-90 bridge. The progress on the light rail expansion as a whole has been painfully slow with projections for a "full network" not being ready until about 2040.

When I was a kid growing up on Long Island, me and my teen age friends would take the train to Shea for Mets games. For us, it was the LIRR the whole way, the Babylon line through Jamaica to Woodside, then back out on the Port Washington branch to Flushing. It was fun.

I seriously don’t know why Oracle isn’t at least #2. Métro light rail. Caltrain commuter, Ferry, multiple bus lines, easy transfer to BART. Incredible land use around the park.

For first time visitors to Yankee stadium coming from manhattan do yourself a favor and take Metro North to the station. You'll get a nice treat on the way from the station and see the old Yankee stadium field. And you can see real games being played on it and even walk on it yourself.

As a Rockies fan, I think we were a bit low. It usually was a lot easier to take the light rail into downtown than to park there.

Stadiums are great but they shouldn’t need to have such massive amounts of surface parking if a transit station is nearby. There’s a lot of potential for infill development around many American and Canadian stadiums.

Not sure if you ever plan to, but as a hockey fan, would be interested in seeing Transit to every NHL Stadium. Great video!

WOW, I can't believe you ranked Busch Stadium so low. The red and blue lines stop right by it. There's a reason we made City Nerd's Top 10... the only thing holding it back is the elevated highway near. :/

Oakland Coliseum has its own Bart (light rail) station and you just walk a short walkway into the stadium....hard to imagine more accessible than that. But it doesn't matter after this season lol

Great video! As a baseball fan and transit nerd this is really cool to see. As someone who only takes the light rail to Diamondbacks games, I think it's ranked a bit low. There's two stops that service the station (one for people coming from North Phoenix and Midtown; and another for people coming from Mesa and Tempe), one drops you off right outside the stadium, the other is likea 5 mintue walk.

As a Blue Jay🐦myself, getting to DC’s stadium is easy! I just wing it😂

Right now, MARTA needs an BRT Bus Route 12 go to and from Truist Park. Bus Route 12-Midtown-Truist Park via Howell Mill Road

Nationals Stadium is totally underrated (Top 5 easy). I live in DC but I am from NYC and i'm a Mets fan -- Nationals Stadium it easier to get to than Citi field. (Fun fact: Citi Field and Nationals Park are basically the exact same stadium design. Only real differences are the entrances.)

Funny thing is, I took public transit to Kauffman Stadium the one time I went there. There's no rail but there is a bus line about a 10 minute walk from the stadium that I used to get back downtown.

For the Yankee home opener, I first took the LIRR to the brand new Grand Central Madison Station. Then I took Metro North 2 stops to Yankee Stadium. It was so much better than sitting in traffic!

Willets Point, the area citi field is in, is being entirely revitalized. Literally the largest public housing project in any borough in the last 40 years, as well as NYCFC getting a soccer specific stadium there as well. over 100,000 square feet for public spaces and open spaces, etc. Think that’s a pretty glaring thing to omit tbh. You also shafted the Nats pretty hard

White Sox, you can take transit right up to the stadium…..and you can drive. Cubs …..no parking at all. And then you give the Mets a better ranking and it’s completely parking around.

Having Camden Yards over Nationals Park just shows that simply doing a Google search is not enough research. The MARC train doesn’t even operate at night when most O’s games end.

I was at a Yankees game almost 2 years ago & can confirm their transit was very good

One of my bucket lists is to visit all the MLB parks so ty for this! Happy to see my Yanks number 1 as they should be. So easy to get to even from neighboring states shoutout the Northeastern Corridor!!

As a Red Sox fan, as soon as you mentioned that you couldn't decided which to put first I thought "no way he puts Boston first with how messed up the T is"

I think MLB stadiums generally have better urbanism than NFL stadiums because Truist Park and Angel Stadium in the bottom 5 would be in the middle of the NFL list if they were football stadiums, and T-Mobile Park of the Seattle Mariners ranked #7 while its NFL neighbour Lumen Field ranked #1.

Tropicana now has a baseball shuttle that takes you from downtown st Pete to the stadium. If they had more fans it would be basically useless as 2 cars of a 20 person max would be destroyed by a decent crowd

Add mine to the many on the mark comments about Nationals Park. C'mon, man, the Green Line Station is practically in center field!!

PNC park has subway service from the T, every bus line that comes and goes from that side of the city literally have stops a block away from the park on 7th street.They shut the bridge 6th street, down for walking to the stadium and you can take the gateway clipper when they're running a boat. Plus, if you've seen a photo from 2001 to today, the whole area has been built up and continues to grow.

I think maybe Wrigley was too low. It has the brown line nearby as well, and I usually take the brown line to belmont or southport for games because its less packed and only a 10ish minute walk away. Also the UP-N commuter rail is adjacent to the park and a transfer to the brown line minimizes walking. But I could just be biased!

You should also do NBA, NHL and MLS

cities feild is great for transit I went to ny over the summer was super easy to get there

Just an fyi t mobile park won’t be accessible by the 2 line in a few weeks. The i90 portion won’t open until late 2025 sadly

I was planning on a trip to Clearwater, Florida and I really wanted to catch a Rays game but chose not to since the only way to Tropicana was by a 50 minute Uber. Accessibility brings crowds, explains why they pull maybe 10k a night

don’t expect to catch a stray from a random transit video, the astros own your fav team btw (unless it’s the royals)

Brewers might not have transit but there are dozens of bars that offer free shuttle to and from games.

Surprised Fenway Park is higher than the Rogers Centre/Skydome, thought having the Toronto PATH system directly connecting to streetcars, the Union Intercity Bus Terminal, Line 1 Yonge-University, and Union itself with GO & Via Rail options would be better connection.

A gondola system is currently proposed to serve Dodger Stadium. If it already had the gondola system, where would you place Dodger stadium on the list?

I think realistically in theory the AL East Triumvirate at the top of this list should be a dead heat. All three of Toronto, Boston, and The Bronx have extremely connected service.

Yeah, you can’t beat Yankee Stadium on this. I would rank Coors Field higher, it has good transit, Denver downtown is very walkable and the surrounds are great. Wrigley is better than Fenway, the land use around is incredible. And Petco is amazing. Great transit, great views, great surroundings.

I disagree with the ranking for Coors Field. It is less than 10 minutes walk from Denver's Union Station that is served by almost every light rail and bus line serving the Denver metro region, including rapid bus service to Boulder and Fort Collins. Plus, like Petco Park, Coors was built in a rundown warehouse district and was a big part of revitalizing the Lower Downtown (LODO) part of downtown Denver in the early 1990's. I have taken public transit to Coors for hundreds of games from all over the region.

I'd love to see that non-transit ballpark ranking and why you think Citi and Yankee are bad!

The next three seasons for the Athletics will get downgraded when taking transit from Downtown Sacramento.

This is the second video I've seen on transit to a baseball park and you both have the same top 3. Both of you also didn't mention that Oracle Park is an extended walk to a BART station. Yeah, the lighrail connects to that BART station, and when seen on a map it looks just outside of walking distance, but there are a lot of people that make that extended walk as opposed to using the lightrail that last mile. I actually get annoyed when my family inisists on driving to Oracle. Being stuck in a car while watching the train I would have been on pulling out of 4th and King is very annoying.

St Louis has a stop 1 block from the stadium for their light rail

The AL East (except for TB) is just top notch.

Baseball is an awesome game! Gaurenteed Rate Field is one of my favorite Ballpark!

"It's a solid service" and the MBTA, name a less iconic duo.

Referring to the "Silver BRT Line" in Minneapolis doesn't make this video look particularly well-researched. It's served by the C and D line BRT routes about 4 blocks away, which are colored silver on the map. But they aren't the "Silver Line". ALL of Metro Transit's aBRT (their term for BRT-lite, essentially) routes are colored silver. But they've never been referred to in ANY sense as the "Silver Line".

Makes me wonder if my affinity for the Lightning (as a tampa native) as opposed to the Rays has something to do with the fact that I almost exclusively walked to the games growing up.

Just opened this and I'm eagerly awaiting the Brewers to get dragged. To be fair though, the bars in Milwaukee have filled the void. Will say though the hank aaron trail gets you there easily by bike

T-Mobile Park is so accessible by transit, you don't even have to be in the Seattle area to use transit to get there. I have taken Amtrak's Cascades from Portland to watch a day game, and back in the same evening. The train departed late getting there, and it hit a fallen tree on the way back, but I didn't have to deal with traffic and I didn't have to look for parking or pay for a hotel.

It looks like I'm the only one in this comment section to notice the asterisk placed next to the Houston Astros. Nice little touch and I'm sure it will make your Dodgers fans viewers happy

Pittsburgh native living in Baltimore...I hate to say anything positive about this place, but Orioles Park is also served by the city's subway or Metro, a few blocks away.

I would swap DC with Baltimore. I live between both and go to games at both often. I would say that at least half, if not 75% or more of Nats fans arrive by transit. Baltimore it's probably under 10%. Plus the area around Nats Stadium is fully developed into a walkable community. While the Camden Yards is close to areas like Federal Hill, the area around Camden Yards not really ideal as it's mostly parking and convention center facilities. I do like Camden Yards as a stadium better than Nats Park though.

Missed on Cincinnati bro, streetcar, metro, shuttle, tank bus and a dedicated pedestrian only bridge and pedestrian only open container Dora district

Both of my favorite teams also just happen to be number 1 on both list 😅

Why am I not surprised that Arlington is SUCK tier as usual?

.I been to 29 parks (haven't reached Toronto yet...would have but thats another story). Regarding the Garbage Tier you have to Uber to Globe Life no ifs, ands, or buts. You could also stay at a hotel by Six Flags but that requires a 30 minute walk lol. Same goes for truist park but there's a hotel thats also a 30 minute walk to there. KC and Milwaukee are worst. No hotel within miles might as well Uber from downtown and back. I'd place Miami/Cincinnati in garbage tier as well. Have to Uber from ballpark to hotel as the areas there are very sketch.

My favorite thing about Oakland is taking BART. Its so convenient. Also same for Oracle Park

Daw how dare you put my beloved and historic Fenway Park behind the nasty wall of concrete and depression that is Yankee Stadium! Fenway was built around transit. Yankee Stadium can’t say that! Instant downvote! Ok just kidding with the last part. Great list overall, and glad we came in at least second. The Green Line certainly has issues that can’t be overlooked. Yankee Stadium is just as easy if not a little easier to reach by transit I’ll admit, so I’m not that upset. Fair play there 😂😂

Love that the top 5 included 4 AL East teams, including my Blue Jays 🙌

oracle park has great transit i think it should be in the number 2 because not only it is connected to a light rail line as well as a regional transit system but its connected to the market street subway with the rest of the Muni metro lines except the T as it stops in Chinatown but you have access to bart and dozens of bus lines through out the city