Transportation & Parking Options

PARKING OPTIONS

Transportation and parking options will be outlined closer to the event date.

The Festival Site

Convenient and Creative Ways to Get to Gator by the Bay

RIDE-SHARING

We encourage you to use one of the Ride-Share apps to get to and from the festival, hassle-free! Consider carpooling to a nearby lot and take a ride-share to Gator By The Bay. There are many area parking lots to use in conjunction with Ride-Share. They include:

  • FREE PARKING:
  • Old Town Transit Center
  • Liberty Station
  • Shelter Island
  • PAID PARKING:
  • $12/Day Ace Parking lot at 4980 N Harbor Drive
  • FESTIVAL DROP OFF AND PICK UP LOCATIONS
  • On Thursday and Friday the best Pick and Drop off location is the Sheraton Hotel address: 1380 Harbor Island Drive, San Diego 92101
  • On Saturday & Sunday there are two ideal Pick & Drop off locations: the west end at 3900 North Harbor Drive (Spanish Landing Park)
    or the east end at 1380 Harbor Island Drive (the Sheraton Hotel).

FREE BICYCLE VALET

Ride your bike to the festival and take advantage of our secure Bike Valet, available at the West End of the festival. Available for the first 120 bikes both Saturday and Sunday.  Bike Valet provided by the San Diego Bicycle Coalition.

TROLLEY / SHUTTLE or RIDE-SHARE COMBINATION

Take the trolley to the Sante Fe Depot, downtown. Walk across Broadway to the
655 West Broadway parking garage and catch the Gator shuttle at the southeast corner of Kettner and Broadway or call Ride-Share to take you the rest of the way.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

MTS offers transportation service from the entire region. Plan your trip from your door to the festival site. Plan your Trip through MTS! San Diego MTS is very affordable. Check out their fare schedule here.

Parking is free at MTS Park & Ride lots throughout the system. Download the PRONTO App to your phone or pick-up and add money to a PRONTO card (one-time $2 fee) at any Trolley ticket machine or at any participating retail network location.

Route 992 goes from downtown San Diego to the San Diego Airport Terminal 2, right across from the festival grounds.  Catch the 992 Bus from downtown San Diego, across the street from the AMTRAK station or the San Diego Trolley stop and go to Terminal 2 at the airport.  The 992 Bus runs frequently between 5 AM and Midnight each day.

And, it is less than a 15 minute ride! Then a short walk across North Harbor Drive to the festival.

Access the schedule and route map for Route 992 through this link.

Bus Route 992 goes from Downtown San Diego to the Airport’s Terminal 2
from 5 AM – Midnight – 7 Days a week.

FESTIVAL SITE MAP

SIte Map