Best NFL Stadium for Tailgating!

Soldier Field Stadium, Chicago, IL - Home of Chicago Bears Football

This is completely my own opinion and has no factual information regarding the best places to tailgate at. I choose Soldier Field for several reasons as my favorite place to tailgate:

1. Limited opportunities to tailgate in other parts of the country

• Having no money and limited access to earning any in the near future has put a strain on my capabilities to travel and spend my days drinking and relaxing in the utopia that is tailgating. Besides a few local college tailgate parties within the State of Illinois (U of I and ISU), a couple of White Sox games, and a few concerts I have not been any where that has matched the intensity of the atmosphere at Soldier Field. The fans are passionate about their team, and you can definitely sense that.

2. Location

• Right off a major interstate there are several parking lots within the area to locate yourself for the day. These lots are easily within walking distance to the stadium, which makes it quick to get so you can continue to party just up to the start of the game. The last important issue is with exiting the area. Since the parking lots a far enough from the stadium (but I remind you close enough to walk), if you beat the pedestrian traffic you can avoid the long car lines too.

3. The Fans

• The several games that I have been tailgating at the fans were always hospital. Handing out free food samples, asking if you need a drink, or offering just about anything they had to make your time more enjoyable. Everyone seemed willing to share their love of tailgating and football.

Leave a comment and share your favorite venues to tailgate at and why.

Tailgating Lots from Tailgating America

So you want to travel around the nation finding the best places to tailgate at, but you are unsure of where to go. This site will give you directions to tailgating lots related to these sports NFL, colleges and universities (I assume for football games, but it does not specify), NASCAR, baseball, and arena football. I love that they give a wide variety of sports to visit tailgating lots because not everyone enjoys the same ones.

This allows anyone to pick and choose between the places they want to stop. For me personally, I would probably try to stop at as many NFL football stadiums because that would be my first to sport to watch (and the best for tailgating). Usually the parking lots around football stadiums are easier to access because they are prepared for large crowds when they planned during the development stages. Plus NFL stadiums tend to hold larger crowds, and are packed every weekend no matter how bad the team is. You know it will be a good time everyone weekend because there will be at least 50,000 plus people all the time. I will let you be the judge though. The list of the other sports is also limited to fewer lots because I believe they are not as prepared for tailgaters. Even though that may be the case I recommend the following.

If you have the time and resources I would suggest looking at this page, and finding several lots to partying at. I would also suggest visiting different sport lots because it will give you a better appreciation of how these divisions of fans tailgate. I think you will come to find out that it is not that different from sport to sport. All fans seem to congregate in the same when it comes to tailgating. One final note, it also gives direct links the stadiums official parking lots informational pages. So if you are unsure of their resources you can double check that they found what you are looking for. Here is a link to the site “Tailgating America”, and just find the tab on the home page that states “Parking Lots”. I hopeful this is helpful for your journeys this year.

Good Luck Hunting….The Tailgate Society

"The Ultimate Tailgater"

As I was researching for more ideas related to tailgating I came across this great blog that details many aspects of tailgating. If you had not noticed the name from the title of this blog it is also the site to be directed to “The Ultimate Tailgater”. This was established by several well accredited individuals that range from authors to life timers of dedicated tailgaters. One is even a VP of Marketing for a grill website that is specifically focused on grills for tailgating purposes. They each have their own niche when it comes to tailgating, and this allows them to give many perspectives of tailgating.

The range of concepts they cover is so vast. They have everything from recipes to rankings of the best places to tailgate. They do an excellent job of embracing the several styles of tailgating that you could enjoy. They even have a blog post on tailgating on a budget. I found that amazing because most of the time you want to go all out to have the best time, but if you continue to do this every week it could become quite costly. It is great they have assorted array of ideas that you can go and find. I definitely recommend checking out their site(s).

Their blog might be slightly outdated only because they transferred to a different web page. You can get there from the blog post, and they also provide other links that they found to be useful to their topics. I am almost positive you could find anything you could possibly think of that is related to tailgating. You will most likely not be left unsatisfied. If you cannot find what you are looking for here then I am unsure of where to direct you. The information provided is first-rate. Let me know what you think of the blog and website, and if it helped you out at all. To find their site I would suggest searching by the title “The Ultimate Tailgater” to find it.

Weekend is soon…that means tailgating can start as earlier as Saturday morning. We can only wait!