Best Places to Find a Parking Spot
The Education lot normally has spots available. The arena always has spots available, but can be quite a hike from your classroom. The first three weeks of the semester it is difficult to find parking anywhere.
After 5:30 p.m., students may park in faculty and staff lots, only with a current, valid decal. The Faculty Lots (G-6) next to the Fine Arts Building (Colbourn Hall) and a designated row of Faculty parking spaces in the unpaved lot (T-600) directly South of the UCF Arena and (T-1000) are only open to students after 7 p.m.
Meter parking is enforced until 9 p.m.
Good Luck Getting a Parking Spot Here
The gym parking lot. Look for alternative places to park when going to the gym.
UCF Shuttle
There is a UCF shuttle service that stops on campus and at 15 off-campus locations. Shuttles are accessible to all students for free, and they’re conveniently accessible for disabled students, as well. The shuttle runs Monday–Friday 7 a.m.–10 p.m. The shuttle makes round trips approximately every 15 minutes.
Tips
Though there’s much parking available on campus—there are more than 18,000 spots reserved for students—there’s still some advice that new students may want to abide by. There are four, four-story parking garages on-campus, as well as short-term metered spots and parking lots. While there are tons of spaces, different lots fill up at different times of the day, so students are always parking in different areas. Also, some of the closest lots are dirt lots and make your feet and car dirty. While these lots are intended to be the sites of future parking garages, students are expected to park in the unpaved lots in the mean time.
Another bonus is that if a student lives on campus, that student will get a special parking decal—but on the downside, they’re more expensive.