Rams Parking at SoFi Is Sold Out for the Season. The Cheapest Way In Is $2.

Every route the stadium and the transit agencies actually post a price for, ranked by what one person pays round trip.

The cheapest posted way into SoFi Stadium this football season is $2 round trip, and for a Rams game the stadium can't sell you a parking space instead. On-site parking is sold out for the season, says the Rams' own parking page, which states the policy in one line: on-site parking must be purchased in advance, and "no event day parking is available to purchase at SoFi Stadium." The stadium's parking page is blunter about turning up anyway — "If you do not have a parking pass you will be turned away and directed to offsite options." So the offsite options are the transaction now. We priced every one the stadium, the two teams, Metro and three city transit agencies post a figure for, per person, and the ladder runs from $2 to a number nobody will print.

The criteria, stated once. First, the all-in figure one adult pays round trip, including the fee the headline rate leaves out. Second, whether that figure is posted somewhere a reader can find it before committing money. Third, what the option asks of you in time — when the last bus goes out, when the return service stops. Parking is sold by the car and transit is sold by the head, so the arithmetic flips at a certain passenger count; we run that math at the Inglewood garages, which is where it flips hardest.

The clock, for scale: the Chargers open at home on Sunday, September 13 at 1:25 p.m. against Arizona, and the Rams' first home date is Monday, September 21 at 5:15 p.m. against the Giants, per each team's posted schedule. Both sit inside the window Metro says its shuttle covers: its September 2 post promises service for "every Rams and Chargers game this season all the way through the playoffs and Super Bowl."

1. Culver CityBus Line 99 — $2 round trip

The cheapest number on this page belongs to a bus line that doesn't start anywhere near Inglewood. The stadium's own parking and transportation page prices Culver CityBus Line 99 Express at a $2 round-trip ride, and the agency's own SoFi Express announcement, dated September 1, 2025, uses the same $2 round-trip base fare, with buses every 20 minutes from the Culver City Transit Center at 6000 Sepulveda Blvd. and starting three hours before kickoff. Two dollars is less than a one-way Metro fare. It's less than the $3 Metro charges to park at four of its own stations on a game day.

One caution, and it's the agency's, not ours. The live schedule page for that line currently describes the summer's World Cup service instead — eight matches in June and July, at $1.75 per person each way — and we couldn't find a 2026-27 football schedule posted alongside it. The $2 is what the stadium posts today and what Culver CityBus posted a year ago. It's the best price in this piece and the one we'd call the agency about before building a Sunday on it.

2. Metro rail, then the free shuttle — $3.50 round trip, capped at $5

A dollar-fifty more buys the plan with the most redundancy in it. Take the C Line or the K Line to LAX/Metro Transit Center, walk to Bus Bay 8, and the last leg is free: Metro's SoFi Stadium page prices the trip at $1.75 one way and $3.50 round trip and states that the SoFi Stadium Express itself costs nothing. Shuttles run every three to five minutes beginning three hours before kickoff. Return service starts at the beginning of the fourth quarter and runs for 90 minutes after the game.

The fare also has a ceiling, which none of the bus options do. Metro's posted fare capping stops charging after three rides in a day — $5 daily, $18 weekly — so a stadium trip tacked onto a day of errands still ends at $5, and transfers are free within two hours. The cap only works if you tap. Cash fares don't qualify, and they need exact change.

And if you did this last season, the station changed. The Rams' page labels the LAX/Metro Transit Center connection new for 2026/2027 and says the service is no longer available from Hawthorne/Lennox Station. Same fare, different platform, and five bus lines — 102, 111, 117, 120 and 232 — reach the new one if you would rather not ride a train to a train.

3. Drive to the train instead — $3.50, and the lot is free at two stations

This is the entry for people who are going to drive no matter what anyone posts. Metro's SoFi page lists what its park-and-ride lots charge on game days, and two of them charge nothing: Redondo Beach on the K Line is free, and Norwalk is free for weekend games only. Aviation/Imperial, Crenshaw, Willowbrook/Rosa Parks and Hawthorne/Lennox are $3, payable on site.

So four people from the South Bay leave the car at Redondo Beach for nothing and get in for $14 all in. The same four out of a $3 lot pay $17. Those are the two lowest four-person totals we found anywhere, and neither of them asks anybody to give up the car — only to park it at a train station instead of a garage.

4. GTrans and Torrance Transit — $4 round trip, with parking thrown in

Two South Bay agencies run their own game-day buses, and the stadium posts both fares at $4 round trip. GTrans runs line 7X from the Harbor Gateway Transit Center every Sunday, and the stadium's page names the part that matters: park for free, then pay the $4. Torrance Transit is the same $4 round trip on the stadium's sheet, without a departure point named on it.

Four dollars a head with free parking underneath it means a car of four gets in for $16 and keeps its parking spot in the family. Ranked strictly on the fare, this is the fourth-cheapest thing here. Ranked on how little planning it demands — no pass to prepay, no second transaction, no app — it's the most forgiving thing on this page. Sunday-only service on the GTrans line is what keeps it out of the top three: the Rams' home opener is a Monday night.

5. Inglewood Park & Go — $17.50 to $24.50 a head, and that is the pick we expect to argue about

Sticker vs. door. Here is the sticker. Inglewood Park & Go, the city's own remote-parking program and the one the stadium points fans toward, posts $38 to $50 at its four Inglewood garages — the Civic Center Garage at 1 W. Manchester Blvd., the Public Library at 101 W. Manchester Blvd., the Senior Center Garage at 333 E. Queen St. and the Locust Street Garage at 115 S. Locust St. — and $30 to $45 farther out at SFII Flyte in El Segundo and the Playa District lot on Park Terrace.

Here is the door. The shuttle is a separate purchase, at $8 a person prepaid and $12 a person walking up, and the program's own FAQ says so in capital letters: parking and shuttle are two transactions, not one. Buses run every 15 minutes and keep running for 90 minutes after the game ends.

Run it for four. Planned ahead at the low end, $38 for the garage plus $32 in shuttle fares is $70, or $17.50 a head. Unplanned at the high end, $50 plus $48 is $98, or $24.50 a head. The floor of that range is five times the Metro fare and the ceiling is seven. One line on the program's site cuts the other way and deserves saying out loud: the Arbor Vitae lots are listed as currently free, with an eventual rate posted at $25 to $35, so four people who land there and prepay the shuttle get in for $32 — half the cheapest garage.

The defense, because the counterargument is real. Four adults who prepay the Civic Center Garage and the shuttle are paying $70 for a guaranteed space, a trunk and a ride home on their own schedule, and $70 for four people at an NFL game is not a scandal. It ranks fifth anyway, on the program's own disclosure: the site says parking frequently sells out and that drive-up and walk-up rates are higher. The certainty has to be bought in advance too — the same condition that emptied the stadium's own lots — and bought late it costs $98 for the thing you were told to buy early. Readers who did this last year with a stroller and three passengers will write in. They should.

Rate of the month: $12 to ride a bus you already paid to park for. The walk-up shuttle fare is the most audacious figure in these documents, and what makes it audacious is what it sits on top of. A family of four that books a $50 garage and never notices the second transaction pays $48 more at the curb, for a 15-minute bus to a stadium they can already see. Prepaid, those same four rides are $32. The $16 difference is a surcharge for not reading a FAQ.

6. A space at the stadium — the one price nobody publishes

Last, and not close, because it can't be priced at all.

The stadium's parking page will not quote a number: fees "vary based on each event," it says, and details are announced when the event goes on sale. The Rams' page says on-site is sold out for the season and sends fans to resale on Ticketmaster. The Chargers' parking page describes the mechanics in detail — mobile passes managed through the team's Account Manager, zones with assigned gates, lots opening four hours before kickoff and closing an hour after the game, tailgating confined to a 9-by-6-foot section of a stall in one zone — and never names a price either, or says whether any spaces are left for its own games. Every other entry on this page has a figure posted by the organization charging it. The biggest number in the transaction is the only one set after you have committed to it.

The two pages also disagree about the day itself. The Rams state flatly that no event-day parking is available to purchase at SoFi Stadium. The stadium's page says event-day sales are subject to space availability, may not be available, and may cost more than a pre-paid pass. Both are official. Only one of them can be true at the gate, and the person who finds out which is the one already in the car. Two more routes appear on the stadium's page with no fare attached at all: the rideshare curb on Kareem Court, reached via Pincay Drive, and a taxi stand at the same place. Neither posts a price, so neither gets a rank.

The ladder, one person, round trip

$2 on Culver CityBus Line 99. $3.50 on Metro, capped at $5 for the day, with a free bus at the end of it and a free lot at Redondo Beach if you drive to the train. $4 on GTrans or Torrance Transit, with free parking at the Harbor Gateway end. Then a gap, and $17.50 to $24.50 a head to park an Inglewood garage and pay per body for the shuttle. Then a blank space where the stadium's own price would go.

The stadium's instruction, in its own words, is that guests without a parking pass must use one of the alternatives it lists. Four of those alternatives cost under $4 a head. The first Sunday any of it matters is September 13.