Allegiant Stadium runs four game day clocks and the gate is only one of them
Allegiant Stadium opens its parking gates 4 hours before a Raiders kickoff and all stadium gates 2 hours before, or 90 minutes before a UNLV Football kickoff. The curb line-up lane opens 1 hour before gates, not before the lots. Bag check runs from gate opening until 1 hour post-event.
Four numbers, four different reference points, and only one of them is the figure most visitors ever look up. The spread between the first clock and the last is two hours on a Raiders Sunday. Every decision that goes wrong inside that spread gets made in a car, on a bridge or at a bus stop, long before anyone reaches a scanner.
| Allegiant Stadium clock, read September 2026 | When it starts, measured from a Raiders kickoff | What it does not cover |
|---|---|---|
| Parking gates, Raiders and UNLV home games | Four hours before kickoff | No price for any lot is published by the stadium |
| Ticketmaster Box Office and Will Call | Four hours before kickoff, closes at the end of halftime | Photo ID must match the name the tickets were left under |
| Curb line-up lane, single lane nearest the curb | One hour before gate opening, so three hours before a Raiders kickoff | Space permitting, with no guarantee of a place |
| All gates, Raiders gameday | Two hours before kickoff | No screening wait in minutes is published for any entry |
| All gates, UNLV Football | 90 minutes before kickoff | No screening wait in minutes is published for any entry |
| Bag check windows, three locations | Same time stadium entries open, closes one hour post-event | $20 per bag, non-refundable and cashless |
| RTC Game Day Express, last departure | One hour before kickoff from all six pick-up points | Raiders home games only, 10 per season |
| Parking lots cleared | One hour after the conclusion of the event | No lot re-entry once a vehicle has left |
Read the rows in order and the shape of the day appears. Two of the eight are deadlines rather than openings, and both of them belong to people who are not driving.
The line-up lane answers to the gate clock, not to the parking clock
Vehicles are permitted to line up in the single lane closest to the curb one hour prior to the gate opening time, space permitting, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. Raiders gates open two hours before kickoff. So the line-up lane opens three hours before kickoff, a full hour after the parking gates.
That sentence reads like an early-arrival allowance and works as the opposite. A driver who reaches the stadium footprint at the four hour mark has two lawful choices: enter a lot with a valid pass, or keep moving. The curb is not open yet, and vehicles are not permitted to park overnight prior to gameday, so nothing about this starts the evening before.
UNLV Football stretches the same gap wider. Parking gates open four hours prior to kickoff for Raiders and UNLV home games alike, while UNLV gates open 90 minutes prior, which puts the line-up lane two and a half hours before kickoff and a full 90 minutes behind the parking gates. The rule never moves; the gap it produces changes with the tenant.
It is a gate rule dressed as a parking rule.
Two hours for the Raiders, 90 minutes for UNLV, and a page link for everything else
All gates open two hours prior to kickoff on a Raiders gameday and 90 minutes prior to kickoff for UNLV Football, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. For other major events the stadium prints no standing time at all and sends guests to the event detail page.
That third line carries more weight than it looks, because three further windows are defined against the gate time rather than against a clock. Bag check opens the same time stadium entries open. Guest Experience locations run from gate opening until approximately 30 minutes after the event. The Ticketmaster Box Office on a non-football event day opens one hour prior to gate opening time. A concert with no published gate floats all three windows along with it.
Allegiant Stadium sits directly west of Interstate 15 between the Russell Road and Tropicana Avenue exits, less than three miles from Harry Reid International Airport, at 3333 Al Davis Way. Which clock a visitor is actually racing depends on the route in from the Strip and what it costs two adults, because the walk, the bus and the car all meet the gate at different speeds.
One more line closes the loop. A no re-entry policy governs Allegiant Stadium: once a guest has exited, the ticket will not be valid for entry again, so the gate time is a one-way door.
The Ticketmaster Box Office shuts at halftime, and will call shuts with it
The Ticketmaster Box Office at Allegiant Stadium opens four hours prior to kickoff on Raiders and UNLV Football gamedays and closes at the end of halftime, read September 2026. On other event days it opens one hour prior to gate opening time. Will Call sits inside it, on the northeast corner of the building.
Two conditions travel with that window. Guests must show photo identification to collect, and the name on the identification has to match the name the tickets were left under. The box office does not sell tickets directly either; Ticketmaster.com is the ticketing partner the stadium names, and the box office line is (725) 780-2100.
For a group whose seats were bought by one person and never transferred, the arrival time is not the gate time at all. It is a halftime deadline that belongs to one member of the party, and nobody else in the group can satisfy it on that person’s behalf.
Walking in from Las Vegas Boulevard, counted backwards from the gate
The Hacienda Bridge is 0.3 miles in length from its east side to the stadium gate, a short 10 to 15 minute walk, while the full path from Las Vegas Boulevard is described as less than 1 mile, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. That path closes to vehicles and opens to pedestrians on all game and select event days.
Only the short middle segment carries a time. Holding the pace those two published figures imply across the whole route puts the trip from the Boulevard between 33 and 50 minutes, a Lot Opens calculation from the venue’s own numbers rather than a figure anyone publishes. Crossing a casino floor to reach the Boulevard is unmeasured, and it is not zero.
Three arrival times come out of that. Favorable: a room at the south end of the Boulevard, near the Mandalay Bay and Luxor rideshare zones the stadium names itself, leaving about 45 minutes before the gate time. Normal: a room further north, plus the Deuce down the Boulevard, leaving about 75 minutes out. Unfavorable: summer heat or a mobility limit on a path where the 10 to 15 minute figure describes a crowd-managed pace, not a personal one, and where no shade or seating is published anywhere along it.
The A to Z guide also names the Las Vegas Monorail, which operates along a 3.9-mile route from SAHARA Las Vegas Station to MGM Grand Station with trains arriving approximately every four to eight minutes, and calls MGM Grand the closest station to the stadium. No walking time from that station to the gate appears on the page.
Driving in, where the useful hour is the first one
Parking gates open four hours prior to kickoff for Raiders and UNLV home games, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026, and all lots are cleared one hour after the conclusion of the event. Between those two points the lot allows no re-entry: once a guest has exited, the parking pass will not be valid for entry again.
What the four hour mark actually buys is narrow. EV charging stations sit in Lots A, D and F, are operated by Blink, and are first come, first served, so a driver who needs a charge has one arrival time and no fallback. Pass holders must enter through the designated lot entry gate printed on the pass or be redirected to the correct one, and staff direct each vehicle into a specific stall once inside.
Everybody else gains less from an early start than the figure suggests. Season parking passes are digital only, accessible through the Raiders official app. Single-game passes are sold on the SpotHero app, and the stadium states that the ability to pay for parking upon arrival is based on availability, which is as close to a walk-up guarantee as anyone puts in writing. No price for any Allegiant Stadium lot is published by the stadium.
Three hard limits sit on top of the clock. Vehicles longer than 20 feet and trailers are not permitted. A valid ADA placard or plate alone does not grant access to the lots without a verified parking pass. Parking spaces, including ADA spaces, may not be reserved, held or saved for any reason, so sending one car ahead at the four hour mark to hold ground for the rest of the group is not a plan the stadium allows.
For a driver charging in Lot A, D or F, four hours out wins outright. Without that need, three hours out buys the curb lane and very little else.
The Deuce opens a window, the Game Day Express sets a deadline
RTC runs the Deuce 24/7 every 15 minutes from 57 stops along Las Vegas Boulevard, with the closest stop near the Hacienda Bridge at Mandalay Bay and a 24-hour pass priced at $8 on the RTC app, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. That bus imposes no arrival deadline whatsoever.
The Game Day Express does. The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada operates six routes across all 10 preseason and regular season Raiders home games: Route 605 from Red Rock Casino Resort Spa, 606 from Green Valley Ranch, 607 from Santa Fe Station, 609 from Sam’s Town, 610 from Aliante Casino Hotel Spa and 612 from M Resort. First departure is planned for 30 minutes prior to gates opening, with service approximately every 30 minutes, or approximately every hour from Aliante and Sam’s Town.
Then comes the line that rearranges the plan. The last departure from all locations is one hour prior to kickoff. A rider who wanted the four hour mark cannot have it: the first bus leaves 30 minutes before gates, which is two and a half hours before a Raiders kickoff, and the last leaves an hour before. The whole service lives inside a 90 minute window that opens 90 minutes after the parking gates did.
Each route begins departures approximately 30 minutes after the game ends, which is the one part of the service that belongs to the exit rather than to the arrival.
The number Allegiant Stadium does not publish is the screening queue
All guests and their belongings are subject to a security screening upon entry, and guests who refuse the search are not admitted, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. No wait time in minutes appears for any entry on either the A to Z guide or the Directions and Parking page, and no walking time from any lot to any gate is published either.
Three named entries carry the crowd: the Ford North Entry, the America First Credit Union Southwest Entry and the Ticketmaster Southeast Entry. Which one moves slowest on a given night is not something any issuer states, so a countdown built strictly on published figures has to leave that box empty rather than fill it with a number nobody stands behind.
What is published is the thing that actually creates the delay. A bag that fails at the scanner sends its owner back out to one of three bag check windows, in Lot B south of Hacienda Avenue, at 5455 Polaris Avenue and in Lot E, at $20 per bag, non-refundable and cashless. Arriving two hours early is worth nothing if the bag turns around at the entry and has to be walked back out to a cashier window.
Where arriving early at Allegiant Stadium stops paying
Six published rules cap the value of an early arrival, and each one sits on an Allegiant Stadium page read September 2026.
- The four hour mark is a parking lot, not a seat. Gates hold until two hours before a Raiders kickoff, and the building admits no re-entry once a guest has gone in.
- Tailgating is strictly prohibited at the start, during and after the event, and it is permitted only from the end of the vehicle to the red painted emergency line.
- All guests travelling in a vehicle parking on site must hold a ticket to the event, so a driver dropping people early cannot park on a spare pass.
- Cash buys nothing on the property: Allegiant Stadium runs cashless for parking, retail and concessions, and the Cash-to-Card kiosks that fix it sit inside the building, out of reach until the gates open.
- An oversized vehicle gains nothing from an early start: anything longer than 20 feet, plus trailers, is not permitted at any hour.
- Bike racks sit in Lot B and outside the America First Credit Union Southwest Entry and the Ticketmaster Southeast Entry, and locks are not provided.
Which issuer set each clock in this guide
Every time above comes from allegiantstadium.com, read in September 2026: the A to Z guide for gate times, bag check, the box office and the monorail, and the Directions and Parking page for the parking gates, the line-up lane, the Deuce, the Hacienda Bridge and the Game Day Express. The Las Vegas Raiders appear as tenant and the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada as operator, not as separate issuers of a competing number.
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Gate times change by event type and by tenant, parking lot opening times change by event, and bus schedules change by season; check the issuer’s page before you travel.
Questions about Allegiant Stadium gate times
Six questions the four clocks raise, answered with the times Allegiant Stadium published in September 2026.
All gates open two hours prior to kickoff on a Raiders gameday and 90 minutes prior to kickoff for UNLV Football, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. For other major events the stadium prints no standing gate time and directs guests to the event detail page before they travel.
Parking gates open four hours prior to kickoff for Raiders and UNLV home games, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026, and all lots are cleared one hour after the conclusion of the event. For other events the opening hour appears on the event detail page rather than as a standing rule.
Vehicles may line up in the single lane closest to the curb one hour prior to the gate opening time, space permitting, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. Because Raiders gates open two hours before kickoff, that lane opens three hours before kickoff, an hour after the parking gates.
Allegiant Stadium anchors the answer to four published times rather than to one recommendation: parking gates four hours before kickoff, the curb line-up lane three hours before, all gates two hours before, and the last Game Day Express departure one hour before, read September 2026. No screening wait is published.
No. Once a guest has exited Allegiant Stadium, the ticket will not be valid for entry again, read September 2026. The parking lots carry the same rule, and a vehicle that leaves a lot loses the parking pass, so both clocks run one way only.
The last departure from all six Game Day Express pick-up points is one hour prior to kickoff, per Allegiant Stadium read September 2026. First departure is planned for 30 minutes before gates open, with service approximately every 30 minutes, or approximately every hour from Aliante Casino Hotel Spa and Sam’s Town.
An arrival time is a subtraction, and half the terms are missing
Every published Allegiant Stadium time counts backwards from kickoff: 4 hours, 3 hours, 2 hours, 1 hour. None of them counts backwards from the guest. The distance from a hotel room to the Boulevard, the pace across a bridge timed only for its middle third, the length of a screening line at the Ford North Entry, those are the terms that decide whether a two hour gate is generous or tight, and no issuer publishes a single one of them.
Which is why the useful question is not when the gates open, but how long the missing half of the sum takes.