Ball Arena–Elitch Gardens station

Ball Arena•Elitch Gardens
An empty coal train passes by Ball Arena–Elitch Gardens station on adjacent tracks
General information
Other names	Ball Arena•Elitch Gardens
Location	1700 Ninth Street Denver, Colorado
Coordinates	39.748668°N 105.009643°W / 39.748668; -105.009643
Owner	Regional Transportation District
Line	Central Platte Valley
Platforms	2 island platforms, 1 side platform
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	April 5, 2002 (2002-04-05)
Former names	Pepsi Center/Six Flags Elitch Gardens
Passengers
2025	974 (average daily)
Rank	37 out of 75
Services
Preceding station RTD Following station Union Station Terminus C Line Empower Field at Mile High toward Littleton–Mineral E Line Empower Field at Mile High toward RidgeGate Parkway W Line Empower Field at Mile High toward JeffCo Gov't Cntr•Golden
Location

Ball Arena–Elitch Gardens (sometimes stylized as Ball Arena•Elitch Gardens) is an at-grade light rail station on the C, E, and W lines of the RTD Rail system. It is located near the intersection of 9th Street and Chopper Circle in Denver, Colorado, near Ball Arena and Elitch Gardens Theme Park, after which the station is named.

Station layout

2F	Pedestrian bridge
1F Platform Level	Ball Arena
	Side platform, doors will open on both sides
	Inbound	← toward Union Station (Terminus)
	Island platform, doors will open on both sides
	Outbound	toward Littleton-Mineral (Empower Field at Mile High) → toward RidgeGate Parkway (Empower Field at Mile High) → toward Jeffco Government Center-Golden (Empower Field at Mile High) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the left or both sides
	Outbound (Special Events)	toward Littleton-Mineral (Empower Field at Mile High) → toward RidgeGate Parkway (Empower Field at Mile High) → toward Jeffco Government Center-Golden (Empower Field at Mile High) →
	Elitch Gardens

The station opened on April 5, 2002, as part of the Regional Transportation District's (RTD) Central Platte Valley Light Rail Line project. It was previously known as Pepsi Center–Six Flags Elitch Gardens. The basketball and hockey arena was renamed in 2020 and Six Flags sold Elitch Gardens in 2007.

Ball Arena can be accessed immediately southeast of the station. Access to Elitch Gardens, located northwest of the station, is via a pedestrian bridge over the station and the adjacent Colorado Joint Line. The second outbound track is seldom used outside of events at Ball Arena.