Dodger Stadium

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Two Choices Decide Your Day: Tier and Base Line

The best all-around seat at Dodger Stadium is an infield seat on the Loge Level, the first deck above the field, ideally on the third-base side. The Loge angle shows the whole diamond while keeping pitch movement visible, and the third-base side is the first to fall into shade on a sunny afternoon. If the budget is tighter, the infield Reserve Level gives a similar angle from higher up. For a 7:10 p.m. start, sun barely matters and you can pick purely on view and price.

Dodger Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers since April 10, 1962, holds 56,000 people, more than any other big-league ballpark. It sits in Chavez Ravine beside Elysian Park, a short drive north of downtown. Only Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are older among active MLB parks, so this is the oldest major-league ballpark west of the Mississippi. Since a March 2026 partnership, the playing surface carries the name UNIQLO Field at Dodger Stadium, though the stadium name itself has not changed.

The Five Tiers and the Outfield Pavilions

Each tier at Dodger Stadium works almost like its own small ballpark, with a separate concourse. Bottom to top:

• Field Level. Runs foul pole to foul pole. The Dugout Club, the premium seats right behind home plate, is part of it.
• Loge Level. The first deck up and the tier regulars prize for its infield angle.
• Suite Level (Club). Premium seating between Loge and Reserve.
• Reserve Level. A long upper-middle deck with clean sightlines from the infield sections.
• Top Deck. The highest tier and the least expensive way to sit between the bases.
• Left Field and Right Field Pavilions. Outfield bleachers beneath the scalloped roofs that define the park's silhouette.

The hillside layout has a practical payoff. Parking lots are terraced up the slope, so many lots sit at about the height of a particular tier. Park in the lot that matches your level and you can walk in without climbing ramps. Since the 2020 renovation, elevators and escalators also link the outfield to a new center field plaza, so moving around the park is easier than it used to be.

Sun, Shade and the Covered Rows

Home plate points north-northeast, so the sun tracks across the first-base side through the afternoon.

• Third-base line: shades first, and when it is still sunny the sun sits behind you rather than in your eyes.
• First-base line and right field: stay sunny longest, and right field can catch hard glare near sunset.
• Loge back rows: the final six or seven rows of each Loge section are tucked under the deck above.
• Reserve back rows behind home plate: also covered.

For a 1:10 p.m. game or an early evening start, these rules matter more than a few rows of distance. A covered Loge seat on the third-base side is about as comfortable as the park gets in August.

Seat Picks for Different Fans

The strategist

Loge or Reserve infield. From these decks you see outfield positioning, leads off first base and defensive alignment as a whole, which makes them the best seats for following the chess match.

The up-close fan

The Field Level between the bases. Field-level seats added in 2005 cut down foul territory, so the front rows sit nearer the batter than you might expect in a park of this vintage.

The scenery fan

The Top Deck. The field is small but complete, and you look past the pavilion roofs to Elysian Park and the San Gabriel Mountains. Because the outfield is symmetrical, seats on the two sides look nearly identical apart from sun.

The outfield crowd

The Pavilions. They are lively, they are where home run balls land, and they are far from the infield.

Seats to reconsider

• Field Level seats deep down the lines. They face the outfield, so you sit twisted toward the plate for nine innings.
• The Pavilions at a day game. Direct sun and long distances from the infield.

When demand spikes

Opening Day, weekends, fireworks and promotional nights, National League West rivals and the postseason draw the most buyers. Midweek games in April, May and early September usually have the widest choice of seats.

Up the Hill: Express Bus, Lots and Rideshare

There is no train to Chavez Ravine, and the access roads clog before most games. Whatever you choose, leave early.

• Dodger Stadium Express, Union Station route. Free with your game ticket. Buses leave every 10 minutes beginning two and a half hours before first pitch and use a bus-only lane on Sunset Boulevard, which often beats a car. Rides back run until 45 minutes after the last out.
• Dodger Stadium Express, South Bay route. Also free with a ticket, running every 30 minutes from Harbor Gateway Transit Center and stops along the Harbor Freeway. Both routes unload at the center field gates.
• Driving. Lots open about two and a half hours ahead. Prepaid parking, sold up to three hours before the game, costs less than paying on arrival; preferred parking is sold only in advance; payment is cashless.
• Rideshare. It works, but the exit queue is slow because buses and parked cars clear first.

For current schedules, see the Dodgers' Express shuttle page.

What You Can Carry In (2026 Season)

Dodger Stadium is friendlier than many parks about food. As of the 2026 season, you may bring outside food in a clear bag up to 12 by 12 by 6 inches, plus factory-sealed plastic bottles of non-alcoholic drinks up to one liter. The same clear-bag size applies to everything else; a non-clear clutch or wristlet up to about 5 by 8 by 2 inches is also allowed. Lockers at Lots H and N hold larger bags for a fee. Read the Dodgers' policy guide before game day, since rules change.

• Gate times: about two hours before first pitch.
• Payment: cashless, with free kiosks that turn cash into prepaid cards.
• Re-entry: not allowed.
• Smoking and vaping: banned on the property.

Come early and you can spend time in the center field plaza, which has a children's playground, food stands and the Jackie Robinson statue. A Reserved Seat order includes guaranteed entry.

How Chavez Ravine Became a Ballpark

The Dodgers left Brooklyn after 1957 and spent 1958 through 1961 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum while their new park went up. Work began on September 17, 1959. Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury drew the design, and the price came to about 23 million dollars. The project followed the forced eviction of Chavez Ravine's largely Hispanic community, a chapter Los Angeles still debates.

The Los Angeles Angels were tenants from 1962 to 1965. The stadium has since hosted 12 World Series, All-Star Games in 1980 and 2022, the late rounds of the 2009 and 2017 World Baseball Classic, and a Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II on September 16, 1987. Olympic baseball is scheduled here for 2028. The terraced hillside and wavy roofs look much as they did in 1962, and under its land-use permit the stadium has never grown beyond 56,000 seats.

Sources

• Wikipedia – Dodger Stadium
• Dodgers – Stadium Policies and Information
• Dodgers – Dodger Stadium Express
• Dodgers – Parking
• MLB.com – Dodger Stadium adds UNIQLO Field to name
• Shaded Seats – Dodger Stadium shade guide