How to visit all 30 MLB ballparks

Decide what “all 30” means to you

Before you plan a single trip, settle the rules. Most fans count a park once they’ve attended a full regular-season or postseason game there. Some also require seeing the home team win, or keeping a ticket stub from every park. There’s no official standard, so pick rules you’ll enjoy keeping.

The list itself also moves. The Athletics are playing at Sutter Health Park in West Sacramento until their Las Vegas stadium opens, expected in 2028, and the Rays are searching for a permanent replacement for Tropicana Field. Many fans count every park a team calls home, temporary ones included, and plan to add new parks as they open. Whatever you choose, write it down so future-you doesn’t argue about it.

Group the parks into trips

Doing all 30 one city at a time means 30 separate trips. Grouping nearby parks cuts that down dramatically. These clusters work well:

Northeast corridor: Yankee Stadium, Citi Field, Citizens Bank Park, Camden Yards and Nationals Park are all connected by train, and Fenway Park is a few hours further. This is the easiest place to see several parks without a car.
Great Lakes: Wrigley Field, Rate Field and American Family Field are within about 90 miles of each other. Comerica Park, Progressive Field, PNC Park and Great American Ball Park make a good road trip loop.
Upper Midwest and Plains: Target Field, Kauffman Stadium and Busch Stadium are farther apart but pair well with the Chicago parks.
California: Dodger Stadium, Angel Stadium and Petco Park in the south; Oracle Park and Sutter Health Park in the north.
Texas: Daikin Park in Houston and Globe Life Field in Arlington are about a four-hour drive apart.
Florida: loanDepot park in Miami and Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.
Everywhere else: Truist Park, Coors Field, Chase Field, T-Mobile Park and Rogers Centre usually end up as single-park trips, or as add-ons to other travel.

Work the schedule

MLB releases the next season’s schedule during the summer before it, which is when serious ballpark chasers start planning. A few things to look for:

Overlapping homestands. In two-team markets like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, look for days when both teams are home on the same trip. A day game in one park and a night game in another is sometimes possible.
Getaway days. The last game of a series is often an afternoon game, which can free your evening for the next city.
Rainouts. Leave slack in tight itineraries at open-air parks. A rainout can wreck a carefully built plan, and makeup dates aren’t always convenient.

Plan around the weather

The season runs from late March to late September, plus October for the playoffs, and the weather varies a lot from park to park. Early-season games in Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Cleveland and Boston can be genuinely cold. Midsummer afternoons in St. Louis, Kansas City, Atlanta and Washington are hot and humid.

Parks with roofs give you flexibility: Phoenix, Houston, Arlington, Miami, St. Petersburg, Milwaukee, Seattle and Toronto all have one. Save those for July and August, and see the open-air northern parks in June or September.

Budget for it

Game tickets are usually the smallest cost; travel and lodging are the big ones. A few ways to keep it manageable:

Bundle parks into multi-city trips so one flight covers two or three parks.
Weeknight games against less popular opponents are usually much cheaper than weekend rivalry series.
Upper-deck seats are fine for a first visit, and sometimes they have the best views of the city.
Don’t forget Toronto requires a passport for U.S. visitors.

Keep track as you go

Half the fun of a ballpark quest is looking back on it. Keep your ticket (or a screenshot of a mobile ticket), note the date, the score, who you went with and where you sat. Over 30 parks and possibly many years, those details are easy to forget.

That’s exactly what momnts is for. Log each game and momnts fills in the real score and box score, saves a commemorative ticket stub, and checks the park off on your stadium map, so you always know how many you have left. See all 30 parks on our ballpark guides page.

Last updated November 2026. momnts isn't affiliated with MLB or any team.