Three windows govern the Chase Center Garage, and the middle one sells nothing
Chase Center Garage at 99 Warriors Way opens to public parking at $7 per hour under a $35 daily cap and closes to new cars 4 hours before an event. Event parking opens 2 hours before the start and costs $75 on entry. Between the two windows nothing is on sale.
The public window itself starts at 8:00 a.m. on event days. Each of the three windows is measured backwards from the start of the event rather than pinned to an hour on a clock, so the same garage opens and shuts at different times on two consecutive nights.
Three arrivals on one evening show the spread. Favorable, the car reaches 99 Warriors Way inside the public window and pays $7 per hour against a $35 ceiling. Normal, it turns up after event parking opens and pays $75 at the gate. Unfavorable, it arrives between the two and is not admitted at any price.
| Way into 99 Warriors Way, read September 2026 | When it runs | What it costs | Where the money is taken | The limitation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase Center Garage, public window | 8:00 a.m. until 4 hours before the start | $7 per hour, $35 daily maximum | Pay station near Dumpling Time or Gott’s, or from the car in the exit lane | Every vehicle has to be out before the event begins |
| Chase Center Garage, closed stretch | 4 hours to 2 hours before the start | n/a: nothing is on sale | n/a: no transaction happens | No new vehicle is admitted at any price |
| Chase Center Garage, event window | From 2 hours before the start | $75 on entry, additional to the accrued public rate | Charged at the gate on the way in | The garage closes at midnight and refuses overnight parking |
| Accessible spaces, 150 Warriors Way | Event days, first come first served | n/a: no separate rate is published | n/a: no rate is published | Limited spaces, placard on display |
| SpotHero reservation for the garage | Bought before arrival | Priced by SpotHero at its own checkout | SpotHero checkout, before the drive | Spaces are limited and the same windows still apply |
| Ticket pulled at the garage entrance | Whenever a window is open | The published rate for that window | At the entrance or at exit, by window | Nothing is issued while the garage is closed to new cars |
Four rows carry a rule about money and two carry none at all. The row that ends an evening early is the second.
The $7 hourly rate at 99 Warriors Way is a countdown, not a price for the evening
The garage at 99 Warriors Way charges $7 per hour with a $35 daily maximum and stops admitting public vehicles 4 hours before an event, according to Chase Center, read September 2026. Every car parked on that rate has to leave before the event starts.
Payment has two collection points. Pay stations sit in the elevator lobby near Dumpling Time and Gott’s, and a driver can also settle from the car in the exit lane on the way out.
Read as a price, $7 per hour under a $35 cap looks like the cost of a long evening at a basketball game. Read as a clock, it is a rate with an expiry: entry shuts 4 hours out, and the exit rule empties the garage of public cars before the first minute of the event.
So the cheaper of the two published rates is not the cheaper way to see a game. It is the way to leave a car in Mission Bay during office hours.
Event parking at 99 Warriors Way charges $75 at the gate before a car moves
Event parking at Chase Center Garage opens 2 hours before the start and costs $75 on entry, additional to whatever the public rate has already accrued, according to Chase Center, read September 2026.
The two figures are different shapes. A $35 daily maximum is a ceiling that a long stay runs into and cannot pass. The $75 event charge is a floor, collected at the entrance before the car has found a space, with no ceiling published above it.
Where the money changes hands moves as well. Public parking is settled at a pay station or in the exit lane, on the way out. The event charge is taken on the way in, which turns the fee into a decision made at the barrier with a queue behind.
One case the Chase Center parking document does not settle is the car already inside on the public rate when the event window opens. The $75 is described as additional to the accrued amount, and the description stops there.
A charge taken at the gate is a choice made before the ramp.
Working the closed stretch backwards from six example start times
Chase Center publishes its garage windows as distances from the start of an event rather than as hours of the day, read September 2026, so the closed stretch falls in a different part of the afternoon for a 5:00 p.m. tip off than for a 9:00 p.m. show.
The table below is a Lot Opens calculation, September 2026. The start times are ordinary arena and concert slots rather than a schedule Chase Center publishes, and the arithmetic is the venue’s own 4 hour and 2 hour marks applied to each.
| Example start time | Public entry closes (Lot Opens calculation) | Event parking opens (Lot Opens calculation) | Stretch that admits no new vehicle | First 78X departure from 16th St. Mission (Lot Opens calculation) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. | 2:30 p.m. |
| 6:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. |
| 7:00 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. | 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | 4:30 p.m. |
| 7:30 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. |
| 8:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | 6:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. | 5:30 p.m. |
| 9:00 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. | 7:00 p.m. | 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. | 6:30 p.m. |
The last column is where the two systems cross. Service on the 78X starts 2.5 hours before an event, which sits between the 4 hour and the 2 hour marks, so the bus from 16th St. Mission always begins running inside the stretch when the garage is turning cars away (Lot Opens calculation, September 2026).
Transit opens as the ramp closes. The gap has a shape, and that is it.
A SpotHero reservation and a gate ticket answer different questions
The reservation route Chase Center names for its garage is SpotHero, with a ticket pulled at the entrance as the alternative, and the spaces are described as limited, read September 2026.
A reservation settles availability and nothing else. SpotHero sells its own inventory at its own checkout, so the figure on that receipt belongs to SpotHero rather than to the $7 hourly rate Chase Center publishes.
What a booking cannot do is move a clock. A reserved space still has to be entered while a window is open, and no exception is published that lets a confirmation through the closed stretch between the 4 hour and 2 hour marks.
Between the two, the reservation wins on a busy night, and the criterion is that limited spaces run out before any price does. For a driver arriving inside the closed stretch neither one wins, because 99 Warriors Way has nothing to sell at that hour.
Height, midnight and overnight rules disqualify a vehicle before the ramp
No vehicle taller than 6 feet 8 inches enters the Chase Center Garage without authorization, the garage closes at midnight, and overnight parking is not allowed, read September 2026.
Height catches a party rather than a driver. A roof box or a van with a raised roof turns a parking question into an authorization question, and the Chase Center parking document names no procedure for obtaining that authorization.
Midnight catches a long night instead. A show that runs late leaves a narrow margin between the last song and a garage that shuts, and no late exit provision sits beside the closing time.
Two limits, two different kinds of trouble. One lands before the event and one after it.
Placard parking sits at 150 Warriors Way and arrival order allocates it
Accessible parking for Chase Center sits in the garage at 150 Warriors Way, where a limited number of spaces runs first come, first served with the placard on display, according to Chase Center, read September 2026.
That makes the accessible space a scheduling problem rather than a pricing one. No separate rate and no reservation route appears for those spaces, so a driver who needs one competes on arrival time with everyone else who needs one.
The closed stretch applies here too, because no exception for placard holders appears in the Chase Center parking document. A placard opens a space at 150 Warriors Way. It does not open a gate that is shut.
Early arrival is the whole lever, and it is not a small one.
One way westbound streets and the last repack before the Chase Center doors
Warriors Way and 16th Street both run one way westbound on Chase Center event days, read September 2026, so a car approaching 99 Warriors Way from the eastern side of Mission Bay comes around rather than turning in.
Three addresses do the work on an event night, and a one way grid punishes a driver who aims at the wrong one. The building itself is 1 Warriors Way, the public garage is 99 Warriors Way, and accessible parking is 150 Warriors Way.
The last chance to repack is in the garage itself, because the doors run on separate numbers. The ceiling is 14 by 6 by 14 inches, and a bag under 10 by 6 by 2 inches opens any entrance while anything larger goes through the designated x-ray lanes, which is set out in the Chase Center bag limits and the entrance each size opens.
One street name, three destinations, and only one of them takes a car.
The event ticket already paid a Muni fare that the garage cannot refund
Your event ticket is your all-day complimentary Muni ticket, in the words Chase Center publishes, read September 2026. The Muni T line serves the building directly, and additional S trains run on event days.
The connecting services carry the same logic. The 78X links 16th St. Mission to the venue from 2.5 hours before an event until 1 hour after it ends. BART riders arrive through Powell St. or 16th St. Mission. Caltrain passengers transfer to Muni at San Francisco Station or walk the 20 minutes, and SF Bay Ferry runs to Pier 48 from Oakland and Alameda for Warriors home games.
Set against $75 at the gate, the T line wins for anyone holding a ticket, and the criterion is that the fare was collected at checkout. The exception is a party coming from a direction Muni does not reach, or carrying something a train will not take.
Rail is the arrival with no separate purchase attached, and it sits alongside the door rules, the bag limits and the exit routes in the Chase Center visitor guide.
What Chase Center leaves unpublished about its own garage
Five questions a driver asks come back empty from the Chase Center pages read in September 2026. Naming a gap is worth more than filling it with a figure borrowed from a parking marketplace.
- Which level or which garage fills first. No fill order, no occupancy figure and no count of spaces appears in the parking document at all.
- How the garage windows line up with the doors. Doors open 90 minutes before a Warriors or Valkyries game and event parking opens 2 hours before the start, but no Chase Center document sets the two clocks side by side.
- Walking time from 99 Warriors Way to the entrances. The single walking figure in these pages is the 20 minutes from Caltrain, which measures a different trip entirely.
- How authorization is obtained for a vehicle over 6 feet 8 inches. The height limit appears and the procedure does not.
- What a car already inside on the public rate pays when the event window opens. The $75 is described as additional, and nothing further is stated.
An absence counts as a finding when the issuer is the party who would know.
Six ways a Chase Center parking plan breaks between morning and midnight
Each of the six below is a Chase Center line being read as something it does not say, September 2026.
- Reading $7 per hour as the price of the evening. Public entry shuts 4 hours before the start and every public car has to be gone before it begins.
- Arriving in the closed stretch. A car reaching 99 Warriors Way between the 4 hour and 2 hour marks is not admitted at any price, and no fallback is named.
- Treating the $75 as a replacement for the meter. The parking document describes it as additional to the accrued public rate, collected on entry rather than on exit.
- Booking through SpotHero and assuming the gate stays open for it. A reservation confirms a space and changes none of the windows.
- Planning to reach the car after midnight. The garage closes then, and overnight parking is refused.
- Driving in something over 6 feet 8 inches. No vehicle that tall enters without authorization, and no route to obtaining it appears in the parking document.
Only the second one ends with a car and nowhere to put it. The rest cost money or minutes.
Which Chase Center documents carried each parking figure here
Every venue figure above comes from the Chase Center content API, read on 4 September 2026, across its parking document, its transportation document and its A to Z guide. Those documents carry the $7 hourly rate, the $35 daily maximum, the $75 event entry, the 8:00 a.m. opening, the 4 hour and 2 hour marks, the midnight closing, the 6 feet 8 inch height limit and the accessible spaces at 150 Warriors Way.
The site serves none of that text to a plain request, which is why the content API is named here. Where a number is missing above, the absence is the finding: Chase Center does not publish it, and nothing was substituted from a parking marketplace or from another venue.
The figures in this guide were verified in September 2026 against the sources named in each section. Garage rates and event entry fees change by event, transit schedules change by season, and event start times change weekly; check the issuer’s page before you travel.
Questions drivers ask about the Chase Center Garage
The answers below come from the Chase Center parking and transportation documents, read on 4 September 2026.
Public parking at Chase Center Garage costs $7 per hour with a $35 daily maximum, read September 2026. The event rate is $75 on entry, additional to whatever the public rate has already accrued. No rate is published for the accessible spaces at 150 Warriors Way.
Public parking at 99 Warriors Way starts at 8:00 a.m. on event days and stops admitting new vehicles 4 hours before the start, read September 2026. Every car on that public rate has to be out of the garage before the event begins.
No. Public entry closes 4 hours before the start and event parking does not open until 2 hours before, read September 2026, so no new vehicle is admitted in between. On a 7:00 p.m. start that closed stretch runs from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
SpotHero is the reservation route Chase Center names, with a ticket pulled at the entrance as the alternative, and the spaces are described as limited, read September 2026. A booking confirms availability, and it does not change the windows that decide when a car can enter.
The garage at 99 Warriors Way closes at midnight and refuses overnight parking, read September 2026. That puts a hard edge on a concert that runs late, and no late exit provision is published beside the closing time. Vehicles taller than 6 feet 8 inches need authorization.
Accessible parking sits in the garage at 150 Warriors Way, with a limited number of spaces allocated first come, first served and the placard on display, read September 2026. No separate rate and no reservation route is published for them, so arrival time decides who gets one.
A garage that stops selling is charging in hours instead of dollars
Chase Center publishes a rate where Allegiant Stadium, Sphere and T-Mobile Arena publish none, and the $7, the $35 and the $75 are all readable before anyone leaves home, read September 2026. The figure that decides the night is none of the three.
The clock is the part a driver cannot buy around. Between the 4 hour and the 2 hour marks, 99 Warriors Way has nothing at all to sell.
Arriving at the wrong hour costs more than arriving with the wrong card, because a gate that is shut has no price to pay.