While the LA Marathon is in progress, no vehicle will be allowed on the course route. So if the driveway to your home or business leads directly to the course route, no vehicle will be allowed to leave or enter your driveway until the Officials reopen the streets in your area. If you must use your car on race day, please park your vehicle, the night before, around the block or on a nearby street that doesn’t have any parking restrictions on race day.

Please check our map to see if there is an alternate path to your home or business via a smaller street. If there are none, or your home or business is on the block adjacent to the course route, slowly approach the Officers or Transportation Engineers at the location and kindly ask them for access to the street and explain to them that you live or work locally within the closure area, but not on the course route itself.

No, you may not. If you normally park your vehicle overnight on a street that the Marathon course will be going through, please park your vehicle, the night before, around the block or on a nearby street that doesn’t have any parking restrictions on race day. Otherwise, your vehicle will be cited and towed away to the local impound yard.

Since major streets or arterials tend to carry more traffic, often times, these streets are closed at the major intersections blocks before the course or event route in order to more efficiently detour the heavy traffic to other major streets that can handle it. Otherwise, the smaller residential streets directly adjacent to the course routes will become clogged and saturated with vehicles that don’t quite have an outlet.

If you must drive to your destination on the other side of the course route, you can use the purple detour routes shown on the Commuterama map to navigate yourself over, under, or around the course route at several points.

If your destination is just on the other side of the course route, it may be best to simply park your vehicle on a street that’s on your side of the course route, and walk across it to your destination. This may save you a lot of time from having to navigate detour routes that a lot of other motorists are probably also using. Please use caution, however, if you do decide to walk across the route during the marathon. It is a race after all!

Major streets that are parallel or near to the course route are often used as detour routes. To increase the efficiency or capacity of these detour routes during the event, parking restrictions are often put in place on these streets. Please pay attention to any temporary parking restriction signs posted. Parking enforcement will be strictly enforced in all cities on race day.

Depending on what city your car was towed in, you will have to contact the appropriate law or parking enforcement agency. This year’s LA Marathon goes through several different cities.

If the route of the bus that you normally take runs on or intersects any portion of the course route, then your bus service will be interrupted. Please visit mta.net for more details on service advisories for the LA Marathon.

It would be best to drop off race participants at the Start Line in Dodger Stadium. Vehicle access to the stadium will be for participant drop off only. Participants will not be allowed to leave their cars at Dodger Stadium. Furthermore, cars entering the Stadium are required to stay through the start of the Marathon, and must exit afterwards. Depending on which gate you enter, you will be directed to park in a specific parking lot and specific parking space. Please note that only the Downtown (1252 Stadium Wy) and Golden State (938 Academy Rd) Gates will be open on race day. The Sunset Gate won’t be open since it is part of the Marathon route. Please plan on arriving early. The LA Marathon is strongly advising all participants to arrive at the Stadium a minimum of 60 to 90 minutes before the race.

If you absolutely cannot stay through the start of the LA Marathon, try to drop off your friend or family member as close to Dodger Stadium as possible in one of the adjacent neighborhoods. Please check the road closures on the Map page to see exactly where the road closure will be.

According to the LA Marathon, families and friends will be directed to meet at the Finish Line Beach Party in the 1550 parking lot just north of the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica. Please arrange to meet family and friends by the posted alphabetical signs denoting the first letter of your last name in the Family Reunion Area.

If you don't want to meet your family member or friend at the Family Reunion Area and would rather stay in your vehicle, the City of Santa Monica has designated 1700 Main Street as the post-race pick up zone. Friends and family can pick up their runners on the west side of Main Street, between City Hall and the RAND building. This portion of Main Street will have "No Parking" restrictions in place. Therefore, no parking or standing will be allowed at any time. Anyone wanting to park or wait in their vehicle should do so in nearby on-street parking spaces or off-street parking facilities. Your family member or friend wanting to be picked up at this location should plan on waiting on the sidewalk along the designated pick-up area and walk out to meet you when you arrive. Please enter this area from the north.

For more details, please visit lamarathon.com and smgov.net.

Since major streets or arterials tend to carry more traffic, often times, these streets are closed at the major intersections blocks before the course or event route in order to more efficiently detour the heavy traffic to other major streets that can handle it. Otherwise, the smaller residential streets directly adjacent to the course routes will become clogged and saturated with vehicles that don’t quite have an outlet.

Depending on what city your car was towed in, you will have to contact the appropriate law or parking enforcement agency. This year’s LA Marathon goes through several different cities. Please check back in a few days for more information.

According to the LA Marathon, families and friends will be directed to meet at the Finish Line Beach Party in the 1550 parking lot just north of the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica. Please arrange to meet family and friends by the posted alphabetical signs denoting the first letter of your last name in the Family Reunion Area.

Don Francisco will be providing coffee throughout the day for spectators and participants.

Downed or dropped runner information will be available in the Don Francisco Family Reunion area.

If you don't want to meet your family member or friend at the Don Francisco Family Reunion Area and would rather stay in your vehicle, the City of Santa Monica has designated 1700 Main Street as the post-race pick up zone. Friends and family can pick up their runners on Main Street between Olympic Dr and Pico Bl in front of City Hall. This is the same location that runners will board the shuttle busses earlier in the day.

Please visit lamarathon.com for more details.

Special parking policies will be in place for all city-owned lots and structures on Sunday, March 21st:

Midnight to 6 AM - Reserved parking for race participants only in the Civic Center, Downtown Structures 3, 5 and 7 (west side of 4th Street between Colorado and Arizona Ave.); and South Beach Lots 4 & 5 (2030 Ocean Avenue; 2600 Barnard Way). All other city-owned lots and structures are closed. Parking at on-street meters will be subject to normal regulations.

6 AM to 12 noon - All lots and structures will be open, vehicles entering before noon will pay a $10 flat rate.

After 12 noon - All city-owned parking facilities return to normal Sunday rates.

In addition, no free Main Street Farmer’s Market parking will be avialalbe in the beach lots on March 21st.

In addition to city-owned facilities, private parking operators have committed over 2,000 spaces and the L.A. Marathon continues to work with additional private parking facility owners. Use the city’s live parking information website www.smgov.net/parkingspacenow to monitor parking space availability.

Free Bike Valet parking will be provided at two locations - the 1550 Beach Lot and on Arizona Avenue just east of Ocean Avenue from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Please visit www.smgov.net for more details.

You can either be dropped off at the start line, or board a shuttle or catch a carpool near the finish line in Santa Monica. To board one of the shuttles, you must have reserved your space ahead of time. Please visit lamarathon.com for more details. The shuttle pick up location is ion Main St between Olympic Dr and Pico Bl in Santa Monica (1700 Main St, Santa Monica). This is right in front of City Hall and only a few steps from the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

To catch a carpool, please visit the carpooling system that the LA Marathon has set up with PickupPal at www.pickuppal.com/pup/welcome/LA-Marathon.

If you want to be dropped off, it would be best to be dropped off at the Start Line in Dodger Stadium. Vehicle access to the stadium will be for participant drop off only. Participants will not be allowed to leave their cars at Dodger Stadium. Furthermore, cars entering the Stadium are required to stay through the start of the Marathon, and must exit afterwards. Depending on which gate you enter, you will be directed to park in a specific parking lot and specific parking space. Please note that only the Downtown (1252 Stadium Wy) and Golden State (938 Academy Rd) Gates will be open on race day. The Sunset Gate won’t be open since it is part of the Marathon route. Please plan on arriving early. The LA Marathon is strongly advising all participants to arrive at the Stadium a minimum of 60 to 90 minutes before the race.

If the person dropping you off absolutely cannot stay through the start of the LA Marathon, ask to be dropped off as close to Dodger Stadium as possible in one of the adjacent neighborhoods. Please check the road closures on the Map page to see exactly where the road closure will be.

The course route will begin to be cleaned and reopened to normal traffic in a rolling manner. As soon as the start line clears, crews will start cleaning the route and reopening the streets at a pace no faster than a 13 minute per mile pace.

If you wish to continue to on, you can do so, but you must leave the roadway. You will have to run/walk on the sidewalk and assume the role of a normal pedestrian obeying all traffic laws and signals. Sufficient finish line personnel will remain on duty until 4 PM to record times for runners and to provide medical assistance and refreshments.

According to the LA Marathon, families and friends will be directed to meet at the Finish Line Beach Party in the 1550 parking lot just north of the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica. Please arrange to meet family and friends by the posted alphabetical signs denoting the first letter of your last name in the Family Reunion Area. Please visit lamarathon.com for more details.

If your family or friends can't pick you up at the Don Francisco Family Reunion Area, the City of Santa Monica has designated 1700 Main Street as the post-race pick up zone. Your friends and family can pick you up on Main Street between Olympic Dr and Pico Bl in front of City Hall. This is the same location that runners will board the shuttle busses earlier in the day.

No, participants will not be allowed to leave their cars at Dodger Stadium. Vehicle access to the stadium will be for participant drop off only.