Lot Opens

How we verify

Every number on this site is someone else’s published claim, and the page says whose. A rate, a bag measurement, a gate time or a lot name appears here with the name of the organization that published it and the month it was read, in the same sentence as the figure: “according to Chase Center, verified September 2026”. If a sentence carries a number and no issuer, it is a defect, and you should report it.

This page explains the rest of the method, including the three labels that appear inside the guides and that nothing else on the internet would explain to you.

Which sources count

Figures come from the organization that owns the thing being described, and from nobody else. In practice that means four families of publisher:

  • The venue itself. Its own parking page, bag policy, A to Z guide or stadium rules.
  • The team or the league when the event belongs to it, including MLB club ballpark pages, the NBA, the NHL, and club sites such as Raiders, Warriors, Clippers, Ducks and LAFC.
  • The transit agency that serves the venue: RTC of Southern Nevada, SFMTA, BART, Caltrain, VTA, LA Metro, Metrolink, OCTA, Amtrak, and their counterparts in the Northwest and Southwest.
  • The road and toll authority for anything about getting there by car: Caltrans, the Nevada and Washington departments of transportation, LADOT, Bay Area FasTrak, The Toll Roads.

When the venue and the team publish different versions of the same rule, and they do, the venue wins. The venue owns the door.

What happens when the issuer publishes nothing

An absence is written as an absence. Allegiant Stadium, for one, publishes no price for any of its own lots, verified September 2026. The guide says that, and then names the operator that does publish a price. What the guide never does is fill the hole with a figure lifted from a blog or a forum, which is how wrong prices survive for years.

This rule is enforced mechanically as well as editorially. Before a guide publishes, every dollar amount, lot name and venue attributed time in it is checked against a stored record of what that venue actually publishes, and anything absent from the record does not go out. The record exists because an early draft once arrived with a complete and entirely fictional price list for one stadium, including lot letters that stadium does not have. It read beautifully. That is the point: fluency is not verification, so the check is not a matter of judgement.

Operators are sellers, not issuers

SpotHero, ParkWhiz, JustPark and Ticketmaster appear in these guides, and they appear as what they are: companies selling something, quoting their own price. A number from an operator is written as the operator’s price on the date it was read, never as the venue’s rate, and never as “parking costs” without qualification. A venue that publishes no rate does not acquire one because a marketplace lists a pass for it.

What the three Lot Opens labels mean

Lot Opens calculation marks arithmetic of our own over figures the issuer published. It is there so you can tell the difference between a number a venue printed and a number nobody printed. Allegiant Stadium publishes that its lots open four hours before kickoff and that Raiders gates open two hours before kickoff, verified September 2026. The two hour window between the two, which is the part that decides whether your car sits in the sun, is a Lot Opens calculation.

Lot Opens count marks a tally taken across the twenty-seven venues listed below, and nothing wider. When a guide says that four of the twenty-seven publish an event-day parking rate on their own pages, that is a Lot Opens count over those twenty-seven, September 2026, and the four are Chase Center, Dodger Stadium, Crypto.com Arena and Snapdragon Stadium. It is not a claim about American venues in general.

Lot Opens reads from source names the set being counted: the twenty-seven venues whose own pages have been read for this site.

The twenty-seven venues, and the pages they publish

All twenty-seven were read in September 2026. Where a page cannot be read, the guides say so rather than treating the gap as a missing rule. Check any of them:

Corrections and re-dating

Venues change rules without notice, sometimes for a single event, so a dated figure is a claim about a month and not a promise about tonight. When an issuer changes a number, the guide is corrected and the verification month on it changes with the figure, because a stale date beside a fresh figure is worse than no date at all.

To report one, write to [email protected] with the link to the issuer’s page that shows the correct figure. Corrections backed by an issuer are made; the issuer is never overruled here.