Parking Permit Options and Pricing

This permit is  for students, living on campus in the residence halls or in the Oak Lane Community, with a residential housing contract.

This permit allows parking on the right side of the Duck pond Road Resident Lot which is the lot at the west end of Washington Street, the Stadium Lot (between Lane Stadium and Southgate Drive, and the Chicken Hill Lot. Parking is not permitted in the Stadium Lot nor the Chicken Hill Lot at certain times before home sporting events, as noted in the Football and Basketball Parking Restriction sections of these procedures. Permit holders must comply with all posted lot disruption notices.

If a student’s status changes to faculty/staff before the expiration date on the permit, the student permit must be exchanged for a faculty/staff permit within five working days. Students enrolled in summer classes or returning fall semester with wage jobs at Virginia Tech over the summer are not eligible to purchase a F/S permit. If a student’s status changes from resident to commuter or vice versa, the parking permit must be exchanged for the appropriate permit within five working days. Students displaying incorrect permits will receive an unauthorized use fine.

This permit is available for students living off campus.

This permit allows parking in the Commuter section of the Duck Pond Road Lot (nearest the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine at the west end of Washington Street), the Commuter section of Litton-Reaves Lot (Wallace/Litton-Reaves), the Track/Soccer Lot, the Duck Pond Overflow Lot beyond the golf course at the end of the Duck Pond, and the Smithfield Road Lot off of Smithfield Road. Commuter permit holders may also park in lots designated for Resident Permits and designated portions of the Coliseum Lot, except at specific times as noted in the Football and Basketball Parking Restrictions section of these procedures. Permit holders must comply with all posted lot disruption notices.

If a student’s status changes to faculty/staff before the expiration date on the permit, the student permit must be exchanged for a faculty/staff permit within five working days. Students enrolled in summer classes or returning fall semester with wage jobs at Virginia Tech over the summer are not eligible to purchase a F/S permit. If a student’s status changes from resident to commuter or vice versa, the parking permit must be exchanged for the appropriate permit within five working days. Students displaying incorrect permits will receive an unauthorized use fine.

This permit is available for graduate students living off campus, in Hillcrest, the Graduate Life Center, or Special Purpose Housing. This permit also allows students to park on the Drillfield after 5 p.m. Permit holders must comply with all posted lot disruption notices.

If a student's status changes to faculty/staff before the expiration date on the permit, the student permit must be exchanged for a Faculty/Staff permit within five (5) working days. Students employed in wage positions over the summer at Virginia Tech and who are enrolled in summer classes or returning fall semester, are not eligible to purchase a Faculty/Staff permit.

If a student’s status changes to faculty/staff before the expiration date on the permit, the student permit must be exchanged for a faculty/staff permit within five working days. Students enrolled in summer classes or returning fall semester with wage jobs at Virginia Tech over the summer are not eligible to purchase a F/S permit. If a student’s status changes from resident to commuter or vice versa, the parking permit must be exchanged for the appropriate permit within five working days. Students displaying incorrect permits will receive an unauthorized use fine.

The All Access (AA) parking permit is an optional permit for all vice presidents, deans, and equivalents. The AA permit provides additional access for senior administrators that require frequent travel campus-wide for meetings and events. For information on the AA permit, please contact Parking Services at parking@vt.edu.

All university community members must display a permit or pay the daily charge to park on campus, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday (unless otherwise noted by a sign). Visitors (non-students or non-faculty/staff) may park in any faculty, staff, visitor, or student parking space if they have a valid visitor parking permit and if the space is not restricted by signs. Some restricted areas include ADA spaces, loading zones, service vehicle zones, timed areas, sidewalks, grass, admission areas, the Hahn Hurst Basketball Practice Facility Lot, the Basketball extension lot, Pamplin Lot, Owens Lot, and Dietrick Dining Hall Lots. Visitors are recommended to use the F/S section of Perry Street Lot, Litton-Reaves Lot, Coliseum Lot, Derring Lot, Perry Street Parking Garage, Washington Street, Litton-Reaves Extension Lot, and the North End Center Garage (payment required 24/7).

Visitor permit options:

• All Visitors: Everything you need to know
  
• Purchase a Daily Permit online
• Use the ParkMobile app
• Purchase a Daily Permit in-person at Parking Services (if purchasing multiple at once, please visit in-person)
• Evening Only (Blacksburg campus, 5–10 p.m.).

All residents of the Oak Lane Community (Special Purpose Housing) must purchase a resident parking permit. Residents of the Oak Lane Community (OLC) are allowed to park overnight in the Oak Lane area or any other resident parking lot on campus.

This permit is available to students living off campus. This permit allows parking in the Commuter Perry Street area lots, which includes the Commuter Perry Street spaces in the Perry Street Garage and Prices Fork Lots 5 and 6. Commuter Perry Street permits are also valid in any lots designated for Commuter or Resident permits.

This permit will allow graduate students to park in the Commuter/Graduate Perry Street Lots, which includes the Graduate Perry Street spaces in the Perry Street Garage and Prices Fork Lots 5 and 6. Graduate Perry Street Permits are also valid in any lots designated for Commuter or Resident.

This permit allows students to parking in the Remote C/G Lot, located at the corner of Smoot and Innovation drives on BT bus routes.

Either the display of a valid parking permit or the payment of the daily/hourly charge (ParkMobile app, meters) is required to park on campus between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. This applies to all university community members. If you only need to be on the campus in the evenings, the Evening Only (EO) permit is right for you. This low-cost permit is available annually or by the semester. The EO permit allows you to park in any regular F/S or student space after 5pm. Please note that the Evening Only permit is only available on the Blacksburg campus at this time.