Sutter Health Park: The Athletics' Temporary Home

Official Athletics game-day parking is booked through ACE Parking's online reservation system, and the listed lot address for Athletics Major League games is 870 Riverfront St, West Sacramento. No flat published price is shown without selecting a specific game date in the booking flow, so none is given here.

Sacramento Valley Station is the western terminus of SacRT's Gold Line light rail, and also serves Amtrak's Capitol Corridor, California Zephyr, Coast Starlight and San Joaquin routes. The 7th & Capitol and 8th & Capitol stations, which opened on March 12, 1987, are served by the Gold Line and connect to the Blue and Green Lines and to bus routes.

Tower Bridge carries State Route 275 across the Sacramento River, connecting West Capitol Avenue in West Sacramento with Capitol Mall in Sacramento, and carries cars, bicycles and pedestrians. No source reached ties the bridge to a particular journey between the ballpark and the light rail, and this guide does not assert one; what is published is what the bridge itself connects.

The Bridge District holds three of this guide's entries. Drake's: The Barn is at 985 Riverfront St — two acres of riverside beer garden and event space with a wood-fired pizza kitchen, rotating food trucks, over 40 taps of Drake's beers alongside cocktails and wine, fire pits and lawn games. Bike Dog Brewing's West Sacramento taproom is at 2568 Industrial Blvd, Suite 110: dog-friendly, open Tuesday to Sunday and closed on Mondays, with food trucks, cornhole and running-club events, and a menu on its own site dated March 2026. Franquette is at 965 Bridge Street, Suite 100, a French-inspired cafe and wine bar founded by Brad Cecchi and Clay Nutting, who previously worked at the restaurant Canon; it is open seven days a week, with weekend brunch, and Yolo County's tourism bureau describes its food as casual French cuisine such as beef tartare and duck confit.

Tower Bridge is the landmark on the water. It was completed in 1935, replacing an 1911 swing bridge, and was dedicated by Governor Frank Merriam on December 15, 1935; the American Institute of Steel Construction recognized it that same year, and it went on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is built in the Streamline Moderne style, which the source notes was unusual for a lift bridge of its era.

River Walk Park runs along the West Sacramento riverfront, with walking trails and public art including "Subtile", a piece made of 34,000 stainless steel plates, and views of Tower Bridge and Old Sacramento. No street address from an authoritative source could be found for it. OpenStreetMap's geocoder places it at 651 Broderick, at 38.5834, -121.5086, but that is a crowd-sourced result rather than a source with editorial authority, and this guide records it as one rather than publishing it as the park's address.

One place the research reached does not have a page here. Mill Street Pier is described by Yolo County's tourism bureau as a historic shipping pier with an illuminated "WEST" art installation, and that single line is the whole of the record: no street address could be established and no source beyond the one itinerary was found. Rather than publish a record that is a name and an installation, this guide names the pier here and says why it has no page.

One thing to know about the record behind all of this. Three of these six places — Drake's: The Barn, Bike Dog Brewing and Franquette — rest on the owner's own site plus a tourism itinerary, and neither establishes that a business is trading now. This guide therefore says nothing about whether those three are open. It does not say they have closed either: there is no evidence of that, and none should be inferred. Telephone first.

The club has no city name. The Athletics were the Oakland Athletics through 2024 and became simply Athletics, with no city prefix, on relocating to West Sacramento for the 2025 season. Both the club's own site and the encyclopedia use the bare name.

The franchise was established in 1901 as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, based in Philadelphia, playing at Columbia Park from 1901 to 1908 and at Shibe Park from 1909 to 1954. It relocated to Kansas City in 1955 and to Oakland in 1968, where it played at the Oakland Coliseum for 57 seasons through 2024. It has won nine World Series titles: 1910, 1911, 1913, 1929 and 1930 in Philadelphia, and 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1989 in Oakland.

The ballpark predates the tenancy by a quarter century. It broke ground on October 28, 1999 and opened on May 15, 2000 as Raley Field, built for $46.5 million — about $86.9 million in 2025 dollars — with naming rights originally sold to Raley's supermarkets for $15 million over 20 years. It was renamed Sutter Health Park after the 2019 season under an agreement with the Sacramento-based Sutter Health. It has 10,624 fixed seats plus outfield grass berms for a total capacity of 14,014, down from an original 14,611 after additions including a party deck in 2005 and a Diamond Club in 2010.

The arrangement here is temporary and dated. On April 4, 2024 it was announced that the Athletics would play at Sutter Health Park from 2025 through 2027, with an option for a fourth year, while a new Las Vegas ballpark is built; the team played its first home game here on March 31, 2025. That permanent Las Vegas ballpark is not expected to be completed until 2028, and in 2026 the team is scheduled to play six games at Las Vegas Ballpark ahead of the permanent move.