Pittsburgh Pirates
What can you bring into PNC Park?
Outside Food
AllowedOutside food is allowed (individual portions).
Outside Beverages and Water Bottles
AllowedClear, sealed, disposable plastic water bottles up to 24 oz, children's juice boxes, and medical liquids. No alcohol, carbonated or sports drinks, cans, glass, or thermoses.
Outside Alcohol
Not allowedGlass bottles, cans, and alcoholic beverages may not be brought into PNC Park.
Coolers
AllowedA soft-sided cooler counts as your one allowed bag if it's 16x16x8 in or smaller. Hard-sided coolers aren't allowed.
Bags and Purses
AllowedOne soft-sided bag per guest, 16x16x8 in or smaller (purses, fanny packs, backpacks). Larger bags aren't allowed; diaper and medical bags are excepted.
How Pittsburgh Pirates compares
- You can bring your own food into PNC Park, as you can at 27 of 30 MLB stadiums.
- Its 24 oz bottle limit sits between the 16 oz cap at Boston Red Sox and the 32 oz allowed at Milwaukee Brewers.
- It lets you bring a cooler. 11 of 30 MLB stadiums permit them.
- Outside alcohol is banned here, as it is at every one of the 30 MLB stadiums we track.
Based on all 30 MLB policies on this site. See the full MLB comparison.
The Spaghetti Policy
PNC Park hands every guest one soft-sided bag of 16-by-16-by-8 (and a soft cooler counts), which I read as a riverside summons for a personal cooler of spaghetti. I rule YES: noodles and sauce sail in aboard the one permitted soft-sided vessel, a sealed 24-ounce clear water bottle bobbing alongside, while the hard cooler, the glass, and the can are left on the dock. Bring no alcohol and no carbonation; otherwise the marinara crosses the Clemente Bridge a free and honored guest.
Unofficial, untangled, and legally meaningless. Trust the real rules above.