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Game Day Parking

Find the preferred game-day route for your parking pass.

⚠ GAME DAY TRAFFIC ALERTNo football parking permit? Please avoid Alumni Drive. Use alternate routes to help reduce game-day congestion.
Non-Permit Parking

Choose Your Parking Option

Select a non-permit game-day parking option to view the preferred route.

Follow the preferred game-day approach shown for your selected parking option and all posted traffic controls.
Step 1

Choose Your Pass

Select the parking pass shown on your hangtag.

Color, pattern and text are used together so parking options are not identified by color alone.
Lots are reserved up to two hours before kickoff. During the final two hours, parking is filled according to availability and traffic flow.
Preferred Route

Blue Parking

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE TATES CREEK OR ALUMNI DRIVEFrom New Circle — follow posted Blue parking signage for Regular, VIP or Disabled parking.
REGULAR • VIP • DISABLED

Tates Creek or Alumni Drive from New Circle

Use the Blue preferred game-day approach. Final lot entry will be directed by posted signage and parking attendants.

  1. From Tates Creek, turn onto Alumni Drive and follow traffic signs toward Blue parking.
  2. From Alumni Drive at New Circle, use the right lane and follow traffic signs toward Blue parking.
  3. Follow on-site signage and attendants to your Regular, VIP or Disabled Blue parking entrance.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Green Lot

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE TATES CREEKRichmond Road and Alumni Drive approaches are also listed in the official permit directions.
STANDARD

Tates Creek

Use this preferred game-day approach. As you get closer, follow posted signage and parking attendants.

  1. Turn onto Cooper Drive; turn left onto Sports Center Drive; turn right at the stop sign into Green Lot.
  2. Have your parking pass ready at lot entry.
  3. Follow final game-day signage into your designated lot/entrance.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Black / Green (PS #7)

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE TATES CREEKProceed toward Sports Center Drive / Parking Structure #7.
GARAGE

Tates Creek

Use the preferred game-day approach to Sports Center Garage / Parking Structure #7.

  1. Turn onto Cooper Drive.
  2. Turn right onto Sports Center Drive.
  3. Turn left into Parking Structure #7.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Black/Green is Sports Center Garage (PS #7). Follow game-day traffic personnel and signage on arrival.
Preferred Route

White / Green

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE TATES CREEKProceed toward the White/Green areas along Sports Center Drive.
SPORTS CENTER DRIVE

Tates Creek

Use the preferred game-day approach to the White/Green parking areas along Sports Center Drive near the track and Nutter Training Facility.

  1. Turn onto Cooper Drive.
  2. Turn right onto Sports Center Drive.
  3. White/Green parking areas will be on the left and right; follow game-day signage and attendants to the correct area.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Orange Lot

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE NICHOLASVILLE RD. OR TATES CREEKBoth official approaches feed Alumni Drive before University Drive.
STANDARD

Nicholasville Road

Use this preferred game-day approach. As you get closer, follow posted signage and parking attendants.

  1. Turn onto Alumni Drive; enter the traffic circle; exit onto University Drive; turn left into Orange Lot.
  2. Have your parking pass ready at lot entry.
  3. Follow final game-day signage into your designated lot/entrance.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Purple Lot

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE TATES CREEKThen turn onto Alumni Drive and merge right onto College Way before the traffic circle.
STANDARD

Tates Creek

Use this preferred game-day approach. As you get closer, follow posted signage and parking attendants.

  1. Turn onto Alumni Drive; merge right on College Way before the traffic circle; Purple parking is on both sides of College Way.
  2. Have your parking pass ready at lot entry.
  3. Follow final game-day signage into your designated lot/entrance.
OPEN IN WAZE
Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Red Parking

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE HARRODSBURG/BROADWAY OR NICHOLASVILLE/LIMESTONEContinue via Cooper Drive toward University Drive and follow posted Red parking signage.
REGULAR • VIP • DISABLED

Harrodsburg/Broadway or Nicholasville/Limestone

Use one of the Red preferred game-day approaches. Final lot entry will be directed by posted signage and parking attendants.

  1. From Harrodsburg/Broadway, take Waller Avenue/Cooper Drive to University Drive; turn right onto University.
  2. From Nicholasville/Limestone, take Cooper Drive east to University Drive; turn right onto University.
  3. Follow on-site signage and attendants to your Regular, VIP or Disabled Red parking entrance.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Gluck RV

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE NICHOLASVILLE RD. / LIMESTONEThen Cooper Drive → University Drive → Farm Road → Veterans Drive.
RV

Nicholasville Road / Limestone

Use this preferred game-day approach. As you get closer, follow posted signage and parking attendants.

  1. Turn onto Cooper Drive; right onto University Drive; right onto Farm Road; left on Veterans Drive; proceed to Gluck RV.
  2. Have your parking pass ready at lot entry.
  3. Follow final game-day signage into your designated lot/entrance.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Main RV

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE NICHOLASVILLE ROADThen Alumni Drive → University Drive → Orange Lot → Main RV.
RV

Nicholasville Road

Use this preferred game-day approach. As you get closer, follow posted signage and parking attendants.

  1. Turn onto Alumni Drive; exit the traffic circle onto University Drive; turn left into Orange Lot; proceed to the back and enter Main RV.
  2. Have your parking pass ready at lot entry.
  3. Follow final game-day signage into your designated lot/entrance.
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Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Single Game Reserved

Preferred Game-Day ApproachPRIMARY: HARRODSBURG/BROADWAY OR NICHOLASVILLE/LIMESTONESecondary approach: Tates Creek.
SINGLE GAME RESERVED

Preferred Routes

Primary

Harrodsburg / Broadway

  1. Take Harrodsburg/Broadway to Waller Avenue; take Waller Avenue/Cooper Drive.
  2. Continue on Cooper to University Drive; turn left onto University.
  3. Turn right onto Hilltop Avenue; first lot entrance is on your left before the stop light.
  4. Turn left at Columbia Avenue; second lot entrance is on your left.

Nicholasville / Limestone

  1. Take Nicholasville/Limestone to Cooper Drive; take Cooper east to University Drive.
  2. Turn left onto University; turn right onto Hilltop Avenue.
  3. First lot entrance is on your left before the stop light.
  4. Turn left at Columbia Avenue; second lot entrance is on your left.
Secondary

Tates Creek

  1. Turn onto Cooper Drive; turn right onto Sports Center Drive; follow to Woodland Avenue.
  2. Turn left onto Woodland Avenue; lot entrance is on your right.
  3. Alternate entrance: turn right onto Woodland Avenue; turn left onto Columbia Avenue; lot entrance is on your left.
OPEN IN WAZE
Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred routes supplied by UK Athletics Operations. Follow posted game-day traffic controls and parking attendants.
Preferred Route

Parking Structure 6

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE NICHOLASVILLE/LIMESTONE OR HARRODSBURG/BROADWAYParking Structure 6 • 721 Elizabeth St., Lexington, KY 40508
PS6

Primary Routes

Nicholasville / Limestone

  1. Take Nicholasville/Limestone to Virginia Avenue.
  2. Turn left onto Elizabeth Street.
  3. Parking Structure 6 is on the right.

Harrodsburg / Broadway

  1. Take Harrodsburg Road/Broadway to Virginia Avenue.
  2. Turn right onto Elizabeth Street.
  3. Parking Structure 6 is on the right.
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Waze will navigate to Parking Structure 6. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred routes and address supplied by UK Athletics Operations.
Preferred Route

Arboretum Lot

Preferred Game-Day ApproachUSE TATES CREEK OR ALUMNI DRIVEFollow game-day signage and attendants to the designated Arboretum parking entrance.
ARBORETUM

Alumni Drive

The 2026 permit map places the Arboretum lot east of Kroger Field along Alumni Drive.

  1. Approach the Arboretum area from Alumni Drive.
  2. Use the designated football parking entrance shown by game-day signage and attendants.
  3. Do not rely on the Arboretum visitor lot during home football games; follow football parking controls.
OPEN IN WAZE
Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.
Preferred Route

Bus Parking

Preferred Game-Day ApproachFOLLOW BUS PARKING SIGNAGEFollow posted game-day traffic controls and parking attendants.
BUS

Stadium View / Wildcat Court

The 2026 permit map shows bus parking beside the Purple parking area near Stadium View and Wildcat Court.

  1. Approach the Stadium View / Wildcat Court area using the game-day traffic pattern.
  2. Follow bus-parking signage and attendants to the designated bus area.
  3. The 2026 permit key lists bus parking at $100 per game, credit card required.
OPEN IN WAZE
Waze will navigate to the selected parking destination. Use the bold UK preferred approach above rather than an alternate shortcut, and follow all posted game-day traffic controls.