Dehler Park doesn't come with the parking nightmare you'd expect at a bigger ballpark — but that's exactly what trips up first-time groups. The free lot behind the scoreboard fills fast on a fireworks night or a Bark in the Park Thursday, and once it's full, your group of 20 or 30 splits into whoever found a spot on 9th Avenue and whoever's still circling the North Park neighborhood looking for curb space. A Billings charter bus rental or party bus skips that entirely: one pickup, one drop, and your whole group walks to the gates together instead of trickling in over twenty minutes.
Here's the short version: Dehler Park (2611 9th Ave N, Billings, MT 59101) sits at the corner of 9th Avenue North and North 27th Street, about two miles north of downtown Billings and roughly two miles south of Billings Logan International Airport. Parking is free, the lots are small relative to a packed house, and the walk from the curb to home plate is short and flat. Below is everything a group needs to plan the trip — where a bus actually parks, what it costs, what's not allowed inside the gates, and which vehicle fits your headcount.
Why Rent a Bus to Dehler Park?
A Billings Mustangs game, a Legion baseball tournament, or an MSU Billings doubleheader all pull the same trick on a group: everyone agrees to meet at the ballpark, and half the group ends up parked four blocks away because the free lot filled up while they were finding a hot dog stand. A Billings charter bus rental or minibus turns that into one stop. Your group loads at a hotel, an office, or a school, rides together, and gets dropped right at 9th Avenue instead of hunting for a spot with everyone else.
It also solves the after-game problem. Dehler Park only seats 3,071, with room for a few thousand more standing, so when a sellout crowd lets out at once, the handful of free spaces around the ballpark clear slowly and every car has to find its own way back through the same few residential streets. A bus that's already staged nearby skips that shuffle — your group climbs aboard and heads out while everyone else is still walking to where they parked.
Charter Bus & Party Bus Drop-Off at Dehler Park
Dehler Park has three public entrances — home plate, right field, and left field — and all three sit within a short walk of 9th Avenue North, the street a bus uses to pull up curbside. There's no separate motorcoach gate or loading dock here; this is a 3,071-seat ballpark, not a stadium built for tour buses, so the drop happens on the street itself. Curb time near the entrances is informal rather than posted with a hard limit, but on a packed night — Bark in the Park, fireworks, opening weekend — it's worth having your group ready to unload quickly so the bus can move on to where it's staying for the game.
Free Parking at Dehler Park — the Lots Groups Actually Use
Parking at Dehler Park doesn't cost anything, which is unusual for a ballpark this size and worth knowing before your group budgets for it. The main lot sits behind the scoreboard in right field, and a smaller free lot sits a block up 9th Avenue near the Perkins and CVS on the corner. Past those two lots, parking is street parking scattered through the surrounding North Park neighborhood — legal, free, and the first thing to disappear on a big night.
That's the actual math a group needs to do here. Free parking sounds like the easy answer until 3,000-plus fans are trying to use the same two small lots and a few blocks of curb. A minibus or charter bus doesn't need to find one of those spots at all — it drops your group at the gate and holds during the game somewhere it can actually fit, which a fifteen-passenger van full of separate cars can't do for you.
The Walk from the Lot to the Gates
Whichever entrance your group uses, the walk in is short and flat — sidewalks along 9th Avenue and 27th Street, no stairs, no gravel lot to cross. The left field entrance runs past the batting cage, which is where younger fans in your group can usually catch an autograph before the game starts. That's a nice bonus for a birthday or youth-team trip, but it also means giving your group a specific meeting spot after the game matters — pick the home plate gate or a landmark like the ticket windows, since a ballpark this size gets crowded fast around all three entrances at once.
Dehler Park Bag, Cooler & Beverage Policy
Dehler Park's own Dehler Park A-Z guide is direct about outside food and drink: “Beverages, food, and containers are not allowed in Dehler Park,” and fans caught with them risk being asked to leave. That rules out coolers, bagged lunches, and any drinks brought from the car — plan on picking up concessions inside instead, which run a wide range from a few dollars up depending on the item.
- No outside food, drinks, or containers — this includes water bottles and coolers, not just alcohol.
- Concessions are the only in-park food option, so budget a few extra minutes before first pitch if your whole group wants to eat.
- Bags are subject to search at the gates, so build a couple of minutes into your arrival plan for a larger group.
Since nothing can ride in on the bus and get carried through the gate anyway, a charter bus or minibus doesn't lose anything here — your group's gear stays on board, and everyone walks in with just tickets and a small bag.
What Size Bus Fits Your Dehler Park Group?
Most Dehler Park trips are small-to-mid-size groups — a Legion team and its parents, a birthday party booking the group pavilion, an office outing, a youth league night. The full vehicle lineup Billingsminibuscompany.com helps you compare covers that range without paying for seats your group doesn't need.
| Vehicle | Typical seats | Best for a Dehler Park trip |
|---|---|---|
| Sprinter van | Up to ~14 | Small family groups, birthday parties, a Legion coaching staff |
| 18-passenger minibus | ~18 | A youth team plus a few parents |
| 25-passenger minibus | ~25 | A full Legion roster and coaching staff |
| 30-passenger minibus | ~30 | Office outings, MSU Billings student groups |
| 35-passenger minibus | ~35 | Larger family reunions, church or club groups |
| Party bus | ~15–30 | Birthday and celebration groups who want the ride to be part of the night |
| School bus | Large groups | Legion tournament week, when several teams need transportation the same weekend |
For a Legion baseball tournament pulling in teams from around the region, or an MSU Billings student section that wants to ride over together, a Billings sporting event transportation rental keeps a whole roster and its gear moving as one unit instead of a line of parents' cars threading through the North Park neighborhood.
Dehler Park Party Bus & Charter Bus Rental Prices
Billingsminibuscompany.com shows pricing online in under 30 seconds, and the number you get is shaped by a few clear things: vehicle size, how many hours you need it for, the date, and how far the bus has to travel to reach Dehler Park. Fill out the quick form or call 406-534-7970 and you can have pricing for your trip in about a minute.
A Bark in the Park Night, Worked Out
To give you an idea: a 22-person Legion parent group books an 18-passenger minibus for a Thursday Bark in the Park night. Pickup is 5:30 PM from a Billings Heights hotel, drop-off at Dehler Park by 6:00 PM — an hour before first pitch, giving the group time to grab concessions before the gates get busy. The bus holds nearby during the game and is back at the curb by 9:00 PM for the ride home.
A rental like that might run somewhere around $650 to $800 for the evening, or roughly $30 to $36 a person — pricing shifts with the date and the exact hours, so use the form or call for a number built around your trip.
Getting to Dehler Park on I-90 and North 27th Street
Dehler Park sits just off Interstate 90 — take Exit 450 and head north on 27th Street for about two miles, and the ballpark is on the right. That's the same 27th Street corridor that runs the length of Billings, connecting the interstate, downtown, and the airport up on the Rims, so a bus coming from almost anywhere in the city ends up on this one road for the last stretch.
Downtown Billings is close enough that groups staying there often skip driving entirely. From the Downtown Transit Center (220 N 25th St, Billings, MT), the ballpark is only about a ten-minute walk or drive up 27th Street. For a group of ten or fewer already staying downtown, walking is a real option; for anyone larger, or anyone who doesn't want to make that walk twice in one evening, a bus pickup right from the hotel is the easier call.
North Park is a residential neighborhood, not a highway interchange, so there's no dramatic traffic bottleneck to plan around the way there is at a bigger stadium. The one thing to expect: for a couple hours after a sellout or a big promotional night, the streets immediately around the ballpark move slowly as a few thousand fans and their cars all funnel out through the same handful of neighborhood blocks. A bus staged a little further out avoids sitting in the thickest part of that.
Billings Airport (BIL) to Dehler Park Bus Rental
Billings Logan International Airport sits on the same 27th Street corridor as Dehler Park, just further up the hill. Per the airport's own directions and maps page, transportation providers coming from I-90 “exit at 27th Street and head north for approximately five miles” to reach the terminal. Dehler Park sits about two miles north of that same interstate exit — so a bus running from BIL down to the ballpark is covering roughly the last three miles of that same road, a drive that typically takes well under fifteen minutes outside a rush hour.
For a Legion tournament bringing in an out-of-town team, or a group flying into Billings ahead of a Mustangs weekend, one bus gathering everyone at baggage claim beats splitting a roster and its equipment bags across several rideshares. See the Billings airport transportation page for how that pickup gets arranged from BIL straight to a hotel or straight to the ballpark.
Rideshare, MET Transit & Walking to Dehler Park, Compared
Dehler Park isn't a venue where every group needs a bus — a couple of people meeting friends for a game do fine with a short rideshare or a walk from a downtown hotel. Here's an honest look at the options.
Rideshare. Works fine for two or three people, but a ride shows up as one car for a handful of riders, not a group solution — for a Legion team of twenty, that's several separate cars arriving at several different times.
MET Transit. Billings' bus system runs out of the Downtown Transit Center, with Route 1 traveling North 27th Street through the same corridor Dehler Park sits on. It's a workable option for an individual coming from downtown on a weekday before evening service winds down, but it isn't built around ballpark timing and won't move a group of any size together.
Walking. If your whole group is staying downtown, this is genuinely the easiest option — about ten minutes up 27th Street, no parking to think about at all.
Once a group grows past what fits in two or three cars, none of those options keep everyone together on the same schedule the way one bus does — which is really the whole case for booking one here, on a venue where parking itself doesn't cost a dime.
Booking the Pepsi Pavilion or 329 Club for Your Group
Dehler Park has two dedicated group spaces, and knowing which one fits your plan changes how you time the bus. The Pepsi Pavilion overlooks left field and is built for a pregame gathering — the Mustangs' own group events page describes it as the setting for a pregame BBQ before your group heads to seats. The 329 Club, next to the left field foul pole, is an in-game space your group has to itself for the whole night instead of just before first pitch.
Both are booked through a Mustangs representative at (406) 252-1241.
Group packages exist too — a Birthday Pack has run around $285 for 15 general-admission tickets, each including a hot dog, a drink, a chip, and an ice cream voucher, which works out to about $19 a person. For a milestone birthday riding over together, a Billings birthday party transportation rental times the pickup to land right when the pavilion opens, instead of your group trickling in over twenty minutes while the BBQ gets started without half the guests. For a bigger outing that combines a Dehler Park game with other stops around town, the Billings group transportation services page covers multi-stop itineraries.
Leaving Dehler Park After the Final Out
With free parking split across two small lots and the surrounding streets, the exit crunch at Dehler Park isn't about a parking garage backing up — it's about a few thousand fans and their cars all trying to leave the same few residential blocks at once. Cars parked on 9th Avenue or deeper in the North Park neighborhood end up waiting behind each other at the same stop signs.
A bus sidesteps most of that by staging a little away from the tightest cluster of neighborhood traffic and being ready at an agreed pickup spot when your group walks out. Set that spot and a rough pickup time before the game starts — home plate gate is the easiest to describe to a group that's scattered around the concourse for the last inning — and the bus is there instead of your group standing on a corner trying to find each other in the parking-lot crowd.
Charter Bus Rental for Legion Baseball & MSU Billings Games at Dehler Park
Dehler Park isn't only the Mustangs. It's also the home field for Montana State University Billings Yellowjackets NCAA baseball and for Billings American Legion Baseball, and the ballpark has hosted regional Legion tournament play — Region 7 Northwest competition has run there in early August in recent years, pulling in teams and traveling families from around the region for a multi-day stretch.
Tournament week is exactly the situation a bus earns its keep. A visiting team plus its equipment, a busload of traveling parents, or an MSU Billings student section riding over from campus all move better as one group than as a caravan trying to find street parking near a ballpark with only two small free lots. A Billings field trip transportation rental works well here too, for school and youth groups attending a weekday Legion or Yellowjackets game as an outing.
What's on the Dehler Park Calendar in 2026
Dehler Park stays busy well beyond the Mustangs' own schedule, and knowing what's coming up helps a group plan around the nights parking gets tightest.
- Billings Mustangs 2026 season. The home slate is set to open in late May, with 54 home dates on the calendar through the summer — see the 2026 Billings Mustangs schedule for the full game-by-game list.
- Bark in the Park and family promo nights. Themed nights run throughout the summer schedule, drawing bigger-than-average crowds and filling the free lots faster than a regular weeknight game.
- MSU Billings Yellowjackets baseball. The Yellowjackets' NCAA Division II spring season runs at Dehler Park ahead of the Mustangs' summer slate.
- American Legion Baseball, including regional tournament play. Legion ball runs through the summer at Dehler Park, with regional tournament competition typically landing in early August and drawing multiple traveling teams for several days at once.
For any of the bigger nights on that list — a Legion tournament weekend, a Bark in the Park Thursday, or a Mustangs home opener — booking a bus a couple of weeks ahead keeps your group from competing with everyone else for the same handful of free parking spaces.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where does a bus drop off at Dehler Park?
There's no separate motorcoach gate — a bus drops curbside on 9th Avenue North near whichever of the three entrances (home plate, right field, or left field) is closest to your group's seats, then holds nearby for the game.
Is parking really free at Dehler Park?
Yes. The main lot sits behind the scoreboard in right field, with a smaller free lot a block up 9th Avenue near the Perkins and CVS corner, plus street parking through the surrounding North Park neighborhood. Free doesn't mean unlimited, though — both lots are small for a ballpark that can draw several thousand fans, so spaces disappear fast on busy nights.
Can we bring food, water, or a cooler into Dehler Park?
No. The ballpark's own guidance is direct: beverages, food, and containers are not allowed inside, and fans caught with them risk being asked to leave. Plan on concessions instead, and leave any coolers on the bus.
How far is Dehler Park from the airport?
Billings Logan International Airport sits on the same North 27th Street corridor as Dehler Park, just a few miles up the hill — a bus run between the two typically takes well under fifteen minutes outside heavy traffic.
How do we get to Dehler Park from a downtown Billings hotel?
It's about a ten-minute drive or walk up 27th Street from the Downtown Transit Center area. Small groups staying downtown can walk; larger groups do better with a bus pickup straight from the hotel.
What size bus fits our group?
Most Dehler Park trips run in the 14- to 35-passenger range — a Sprinter van or 18-passenger minibus for a small team or family group, a 25- to 35-passenger minibus for a full Legion roster or an office outing, and a party bus or school bus for larger celebration groups or tournament-week travel.
How much does it cost to rent a bus to Dehler Park?
Pricing depends on vehicle size, total hours, the date, and how far the bus is traveling. Fill out the quick form or call 406-534-7970 for pricing built around your specific trip.
Can our group book the Pepsi Pavilion or the 329 Club?
Yes. Both are reserved through a Mustangs representative at (406) 252-1241 — the Pepsi Pavilion for a pregame gathering overlooking left field, and the 329 Club for an in-game space your group holds for the whole night.
How far in advance should we book a bus for a Legion tournament or a big promotional night?
A couple of weeks out is a good target for a regular game night; for a Legion regional tournament weekend, a Mustangs home opener, or a themed night like Bark in the Park, booking as soon as your date is set gives your group the best shot at the vehicle size you want.
For more on how Billingsminibuscompany.com works across the rest of the city, the frequently asked questions page covers the booking process in more detail.
Also planning a trip to MontanaFair or First Interstate Arena? Both sit a short drive from Dehler Park in the same North 27th Street area, and those guides cover their own drop-offs and parking.
Book Your Dehler Park Bus Rental Today
Free parking at Dehler Park is a rare break for a group planner — but two small lots and a residential neighborhood still fill up fast on a packed night. Whether it's a Legion tournament roster, an MSU Billings student section, a birthday group booking the Pepsi Pavilion, or a family heading out for Bark in the Park, Billingsminibuscompany.com makes it easy to compare charter buses, party buses, minibuses, and Sprinter vans for the trip. Fill out the quick form or call 406-534-7970 any time for pricing on your Dehler Park group.
