Chase Center: How to Get There, What to Know, and What We Gave Up for It
Do not drive. Everything else on this page follows from that: the T Third, the 78X from BART, the ferry almost nobody uses, and why the old building was louder.
If you're going to a game and you've never been, the single most useful thing I can tell you is this: do not drive.
Everything else on this page follows from that.
Where it actually is
Chase Center sits at 1 Warriors Way, on the corner of Third and 16th in Mission Bay, San Francisco. It holds 18,064 for basketball and it's home to the Warriors and the Valkyries, plus roughly 200 events a year that have nothing to do with either.
Mission Bay is the flat, newish, glass part of the city south of downtown that most people who grew up here still think of as the old rail yards. It's close to the water, it's windy in the evening in a way that surprises visitors, and the streets around the arena were not built to swallow eighteen thousand cars.
Getting there without a car
Muni, and your ticket is the fare
The T Third runs special event service between Chinatown Rose Pak Station and UCSF Chase Center roughly every ten minutes and drops you on Third Street directly in front of the building. There's no fare to work out either: your event ticket is your Muni fare for the day, printed or on your phone, shown at the fare gates and boarding platforms.
From BART
The 78X 16th Street Arena Express runs between 16th St Mission BART and the arena. That's the move if you're coming from the East Bay and don't want the ferry.
From Caltrain
The San Francisco station at Fourth and King is a fifteen to twenty minute walk. If you'd rather not walk it, the T Third platform is on Fourth between King and Berry.
By ferry, which nobody uses
This is the one people don't know about. There's ferry service for every Warriors game and selected concerts. San Francisco Bay Ferry runs from Oakland's Jack London Square and from the Main Street terminal in Alameda. Golden Gate Ferry comes down from Larkspur. They all land at the Mission Bay Interim Ferry Landing at Pier 48 and a half on Terry Francois Boulevard, about half a mile north of the arena, which is a walk of ten minutes or so along the water.
I'm going to say the ferry part again because it's genuinely the best way in from the East Bay and almost nobody I know uses it.
If you have to drive
On site parking is extremely limited and the arena itself tells you so. Prepay if you're going to do it, and know before you leave the house which garage you're aiming at, because sorting it out at Third and 16th with twenty minutes to tip is not a plan. There's additional parking at 1800 Owens Street and at 19th and Illinois.
The honest version: parking near Chase Center costs more than a ticket used to at the old place, and you will sit in it afterwards.
Before you get to the door
The bag rules are stricter than most people expect. Backpacks are out, any size. Any bag bigger than 14 by 6 by 14 inches is out. There's a bag check on the outside of the building on Warriors Way if you turn up with something that doesn't make it, but that's a queue you don't need on a Tuesday night.
What it is, and what it isn't
It's a very good arena. The sightlines are good, the concourses are wide, the plaza outside is pleasant, and it does not smell like a parking structure.
And I'd still rather be at Roaracle.
That building opened in 1966, held 19,596, and the noise in it was made by people who had watched that team be bad for twenty years and showed up anyway. The Warriors played their last game there on 13 June 2019, Game 6 of the Finals, and then crossed the bridge to a better arena with more revenue and more expensive seats, forty minutes and a bridge toll away from the crowd that built the reputation they marketed on the way out.
Both of those things are true at once. The new building is nicer. The old one was louder, and it was louder because of who was in it.
If you're coming to your first game, you'll have a good night. If you came up in the East Bay and this is your first time back since the move, give yourself a minute. It's a strange feeling and everyone I know has had it.
The rest of our venue coverage
The old arena has its own page, as does the Coliseum next door and what happens to that site now. Across the bay there's Oracle Park and the Cove, and up the causeway there's Sutter Health Park, where the A's play now. Candlestick is gone, and we wrote about that too.
For game dates, the 2026-27 schedule has every one of them.
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