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Night & Weekend Parking Restrictions

Special Parking Restrictions

Most parking areas are open evenings after 5 pm and weekends to everyone. But central campus parking lots and all residence hall parking lots are only open to 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