First-Timer's Guide to Truist Park

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Truist Park is an easy park to enjoy and a strict one to enter. The rules that surprise first-timers, from most painful to least, are that you basically cannot bring a bag, the whole place is cashless, and there is no re-entry once you are in. On the other hand, you can carry in a full gallon bag of your own food. Get those straight before you leave the hotel, and you can spend the day enjoying the park.

You can find more about where to sit, what to eat, and how to get to the park in our Where to Sit, What to Eat, and Getting There sections.

The trip from the airport is a MARTA train to Arts Center and CobbLinc Route 10 from there, and it works on Sundays too. If you land with a suitcase, you can book bag storage on Battery Avenue ahead of time.

The bag policy

No bags. For the 2026 season, Truist Park does not allow bags through the gates. The exceptions are narrow: medical bags, breast pumps, diaper bags when the baby is with you, ADA-required bags, and small single-compartment clutches or clear bags no bigger than 5 by 9 inches. The 12x6x12 clear stadium bag that works at most NFL and MLB gates does not work here.

So put your phone, cards, and keys in your pockets, or carry a clutch smaller than a paperback. If you arrive with more (you drove from the airport, you have a laptop, whatever), there is paid Smart Locker storage between the Orange and Truist Tower parking decks, from $12 a bag, open two hours before first pitch until an hour after the last out. It is better to leave it in the trunk, because the lockers are first-come.

What you CAN bring

Food. One clear gallon-size plastic bag of food per ticket, plus one factory-sealed plastic bottle of water, a liter or under. The food bag rides through security with an extra inspection and then it is yours in the seats. For a family of four at big-league concession prices, this single policy can pay for a night’s hotel. You can find more about the outside-food rule in our What to Eat section.

Also fine: umbrellas (the park allows them, just be considerate of the people around you), handheld cameras with lenses under 5 inches (no tripods), and trained service animals. Not fine: aerosol cans (including spray sunscreen), glass, hard-sided coolers, selfie sticks and monopods, drones, and the rest of the usual list.

Gates and getting in

Truist Park has five gates, and since every gate reaches every seat, use the one closest to where you arrive.

• Chop House Gate is the one that drops you into the Battery scene on the way in.
• Right Field Gate, off Battery Avenue in front of Sports & Social.
• Left Field Gate, at the bottom of the Delta Deck by the Warren Spahn statue.
• Third Base Gate, by the Phil Niekro statue, next to the free kids zone.
• First Base Gate, across from the Orange Deck by the Bobby Cox statue.

Gates open two hours before first pitch, except weekday day games, when they open 80 minutes early. Everyone passes metal detectors. And once you are in, you are staying in, because there is no re-entry on the same ticket, and the parking lots do not allow re-entry either. The two-hour open is generous by league standards; use it on the concourse and Monument Garden instead of a parking-lot wait.

Typical start times, for planning: 7:15 p.m. Monday through Saturday nights, 1:30 p.m. Sundays, 12:15 p.m. midweek day games.

Money and the app

The park is cashless, gates to gift shop. If you are carrying cash, kiosks behind sections 118 and 133 convert it to a spendable card. It is faster to just bring the cards you already own.

Download the MLB Ballpark app before you leave the hotel. It holds your tickets and parking pass, navigates you to your specific lot, takes mobile food orders (pickup at the Chop House Gate), and requests things like the free wheelchair escort. The park assumes you have it, and the day is smoother when that assumption is true.

Monument Garden

Monument Garden, on the main concourse behind section 125. It is a legitimate free museum built into the ballpark: the Hank Aaron statue frozen at the moment of his 715th home run, a sculpture built from 755 bats, plaques for every Braves Hall of Famer, the retired numbers set in a water feature, and both World Series trophies visible through the glass of the Champions Suites. New for 2026, a six-display walk covers each decade since the Braves arrived in Atlanta. Fifteen minutes here before first pitch is the best free thing this park offers, and plenty of season-ticket holders still make the stop.

Drinks and the cutoff

Alcohol sales end at the bottom of the seventh inning at the concession stands, with a two-drink limit per person per purchase. Premium clubs pour a little longer. Volunteering as designated driver gets you a free Coke at the booth near section 141, and finished drinks stay inside the gates on your way out.

With kids

This park does kids as well as anywhere in the league, and most of it is free.

• Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Park, outside the Third Base Gate: a free 30,000-square-foot zone with a whiffle-ball field, rock wall, batting cages, and BLOOPER’s clubhouse. Not a game-day, walk-up-anytime stop, though. It currently runs on an “Open Play” schedule limited to non-gameday weekends, August through May.
• Kids Run the Bases, after every Sunday home game, ages 4 to 14, no reservation. The line forms at the third-base ramp by section 135 starting in the bottom of the 8th, so a Sunday plan should put you on that side late.
• Children 2 and under enter free on a lap. Sundays add a kids giveaway for the first 3,000 fans 14 and under.
• The Northside Hospital Nursing Lounge (air-conditioned, staffed) sits near the Left Field Gate at section 141, and family restrooms are spread through the park. A sensory lounge behind section 218 supports fans with sensory needs.

Batting practice, first aid, and chargers

• Batting practice: the First Base Gate opens at 4:30 for 7:20 games for the BP program; sign up at braves.com/battingpractice. Autographs are fair game from gates-open until an hour before first pitch.
• Help by text: 404-614-1599 reaches guest services from your seat.
• First aid lives at sections 111, 241, and 314; guest services at 120 and 314.
• Phone dying? Charger rentals at several sections, including 120 and 131.
• 50/50 raffle runs until the bottom of the seventh; the winning number posts on the left-field LED board.
• Weather: summer evenings bring pop-up storms; the canopy covers much of the upper deck, and delays are usually shorter than they feel. For more on the weather through the season, see our When to Go section.

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