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Night & Weekend Parking Restrictions

Special Parking Restrictions

In most parking areas enforcement is paused after 5 pm during the week and all day on weekends. This does not include central campus lots and all residence hall parking lots as they are only open to annual permit holders. The best way to avoid getting a parking ticket is to read the signs carefully before you park.

Open Parking 5pm-7:30am (Weekdays) and All day on Weekends (Sat. & Sun.)

  • Forest Home Parking Garage/Toboggan Lodge
  • Hoy Road Parking Garage/Crescent Lot/Campus Road C/O/SC areas
  • Alumni Field/Wing Drive
  • All Pay Station Meter Lots
  • A Lot
  • B Lot
  • South Ave/Hughes Hall HH/WE areas

Parking Areas Restricted at All Times

  • All Residence Hall permit areas: FH, ND, SW, WD
  • All loading and time-limited drop off areas
  • Bus stop/pull-off areas; life safety, fire lanes, no parking zones; etc.
  • 722 University Avenue
  • Caldwell Hall
  • Cornell Police Division lot
  • Accessible parking spaces and aisles
  • “MT” permit spaces
  • Reserved spaces
  • Warren Service Drive

Parking Lots with Extended Hours of Restriction Monday - Friday, 5 pm - 10 pm; Saturday–Sunday, 7:30 am - 10 pm

  • Bradfield Hall Lot (M-F only)
  • Federal Nutrition Lab Lot
  • ILR Lot
  • Malott Hall Lot
  • Myron Taylor Hall Lot
  • Rockefeller East
  • Sheldon Court Lot 
  • Snee Hall Lot
  • Space Science Lot
  • Sibley Hall Lot
  • Central Avenue Lot
  • Dickson Hall Lot, near Wait Terrace (M-F, 5 pm - 7 pm)

Monday - Sunday, 7:30 am – 8 pm

  • Sage South Lot

Monday - Friday 6 am - 6 pm

  • Mary Ann Wood Drive Lot