Where to Stay Near American Family Field

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Stay downtown. American Family Field is an island in the Menomonee Valley, ringed by its own parking lots, with few hotels close to the gates. Everything else you want out of a Milwaukee trip, the rooms, the restaurants, the bars, sits a 10-to-15-minute ride east of it.

Book downtown if you want restaurants and bars outside your door. Book near the park if being close to the gates matters most, and the Fairfield Inn & Suites Milwaukee West is close enough to walk.

Ride times here are approximate, and shuttle schedules change, so call the bar or hotel before you count on a shuttle.

Why stay downtown

A lot of parks make you choose between a room near the gates and a room near everything else. American Family Field mostly makes that choice for you, because there is almost nothing at the gates to choose. The park’s neighbors are its own lots, a community park, a cemetery, and a VA medical center. The tailgate in those lots is the on-site scene, and most of the hotels are downtown.

So the base is downtown. No rail reaches the gates and the streetcar does not either, so from any downtown room the game is a drive, a rideshare, or a bar shuttle. Several downtown bars run game-day shuttles for their customers, so a hotel within walking distance of one of them turns the ride to the park into a pre-game stop. You can find more about driving, tailgating, rideshare, and the bus in our Getting There section.

Iconic and historic downtown

The Pfister Hotel, 424 E. Wisconsin Avenue, opened in 1893 and is a downtown landmark. The baseball connection is that visiting MLB teams have long stayed here, and they report the place haunted. Believe the stories or not, stay at the Pfister if you want a hotel with some history to it. The park is a 3-to-4-mile ride.

The Hilton Milwaukee City Center is the 1928 Art Deco tower and the largest convention hotel downtown, near Fiserv Forum and the Deer District. It is a bigger, convention-scaled stay than the Pfister, and its location is the reason to book it, since you are already in the Deer District’s orbit before the ride to the game. It is the same short ride to the park.

Boutique downtown

Saint Kate, the Arts Hotel, 139 E. Kilbourn Avenue, is downtown’s arts hotel, down to a ukulele in every room. If the room itself is part of what you want out of the trip, book here.

The Kimpton Journeyman sits in the Historic Third Ward, the neighborhood that holds the Milwaukee Public Market, so you can walk to dinner before the ride to the park.

The Brewhouse Inn & Suites is built into the historic Pabst Brewery complex, and On Tap, the restaurant and bar there, runs a free shuttle to and from Brewers games when it is open. Call On Tap to check that the shuttle is running for your game. If you want to start the night in an old brewery building and ride to the game from there, book here.

There is one more south of the core. The Iron Horse Hotel in Walker’s Point is the Harley-themed boutique, a little farther from the Deer District bustle, and the right choice if a Harley theme sounds like fun.

Mid-range downtown

For a dependable downtown room to come back to after a night game, Aloft Milwaukee Downtown is an easy choice.

Staying near the park

Fairfield Inn & Suites Milwaukee West, at 4229 W. National Avenue, is a little under a mile from the park, about a 20-minute walk to the gates. If being near the park is the priority, book this one.

Potawatomi Casino Hotel is about 1.5 miles from the park, with bars, restaurants, and a sportsbook on site, so the hotel doubles as the night out. It is a short rideshare to the gates.

Out in West Allis, the Hampton Inn & Suites Milwaukee West at State Fair Park is a short drive or rideshare from the park. A Holiday Inn Express and a Home2 Suites are nearby too. From any of the three, plan on driving or a rideshare.

The blocks immediately northeast of the park have little around them, so do not book on map distance expecting walkable food or bars. Downtown carries that part of the trip.

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