UNC Parking Services
ATTENTION: University of Northern Colorado parking rules and regulations are enforced year round. Click here for a list of days when parking enforcement is limited. Signs at parking lot entrances indicate hours of enforcement and types of permit required for parking in that lot. Parking restrictions for fire lanes, spaces for disabled persons, timed spaces, no-parking zones, service spaces and other specially marked spaces are enforced 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in all lots. Permits are required 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, except in these lots: Davis, F, P, P-south, R, T and T-north which are enforced 24 hours a day, seven days a week, so a permit is always required. Alternatively one may park at a metered space and pay the meter. Meter locations are listed on the Parking Map. The time limit of each meter is posted next to the coin slot on the meter. Meters with shorter time limits are intended for quicker turnover, giving as many visitors as possible a chance to drop off or pick up.
Newest Parking Services news items are posted in the blue-colored box at the bottom of this page.
We invite you to subscribe to UNC Parking Services News. After subscribing you will receive announcements such as the start date for purchasing parking permits for the new academic year and parking lot closures due to maintenance.
UNC Parking Services has continued to add parking spaces across campus to help meet the needs of the campus community. The expansion of T-lot was completed Fall 2006. T-lot now offers 102 spaces situated along 20th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. We opened the expanded C-lot in August 2007. C-lot now offers 391 spaces in a nicely landscaped lot just south of the University Center and just east of the west campus Residence Halls. January 2008 we opened newly paved parking at Jackson Field, a sports complex near the intersection of 19th Street and 6th Avenue. These areas complete over $8.6 million in parking improvements over the past seven years.
Parking Services sells parking permits to students, faculty, staff and visitors at UNC, maintains a parking infrastructure of 5890 spaces in 35 parking lots located on approximately 48 acres, and enforces parking regulations.
Any vehicle parked on University property must display a current UNC parking permit unless parked at a paid meter. Click here for information about UNC parking meter pay rates. Semester or annual (only available in fall) permits can be purchased online or at the Parking Services office at Gray Hall. Short-term, temporary permits are available at permit dispensers located around campus or at the Parking Services office at Gray Hall. Permit enforcement hours are 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise posted. To avoid being issued a citation, plan to purchase a Dispenser Parking Permit (Price=$10.00 for 24 hours, $5.00 for 12 hours or $1.00 / hour up to 4 hours) from one of the seven dispensers on campus if you do not have a current student permit or faculty/staff permit. Click here to open Parking Map. Icons with red circles around red letters "P" on the map indicate locations of Parking Permit Dispensers. There are currently seven permit dispensers--dispensers that were formerly in A & Y lots have been permanently removed. At present most of the dispensers are equipped to accept Discover, MasterCard & Visa credit cards as well as U.S. nickels, dimes, quarters, paper and coin dollars and five dollar bills.
We invite you to check out all services by clicking on the various information links listed in the sidebars of this page. Other links are posted on individual web pages. If you have other questions regarding Parking Services, please contact us at (970) 351-1971. Our office is open 8am-5pb Monday-Friday when UNC is open with one exception--UNC Parking Services office will be closed Friday, December 30, 2011.
Newest Parking Services News:
- UNC Parking Services has upgraded to a new computer system. UNC annual & semester permits for 2011-2012 academic year are available for purchase online through Ursa or in Parking Services office. Click here for a little more detail. Remember, you must display your permit for it to be valid. There is a link on our Permits page to get info about permit prices for the 2011-2012 parking year.
- All seven UNC parking permit dispensers now offer an Hourly Permit option for $1.00 per hour up to four hours. Upon entering more than four hours the customer will be directed to cancel & buy the $5 (12-hour) permit or the $10 (24-hour) permit instead. Dispensers are located in lots B (south side of UC), C (south of UC & 22nd Street), I (near North Hall), J (south of Holmes Dining Hall & west campus residence halls), Jackson, L (near Candelaria Hall) and M (south of Nottingham Field at south end of M-lot). Like the 12-hour & 24-hour dispenser permits, Hourly permits are valid in regular spaces of student lots except K-east lot. Hourly, 12-hour & 24-hour Dispenser permits are not valid at metered or Faculty/Staff spaces at any time. Hourly permits in essence make a regular student parking space serve as a short-term parking space.
- Discover, MasterCard & Visa credit cards are now accepted at all UNC parking permit dispensers except the Jackson lot dispenser.
- Locking devices for hang tag parking permits are available for purchase ($20.00 each) at UNC Parking Services. These locking devices enable a hang tag permit to be secured onto a motorcycle or onto a jeep. A motorist will be able move the same hang tag from a car, truck, et cetera, to a motorcycle, thus ending the necessity of buying a second permit for a motorcycle after having purchased a hangtag for a car. Motorcycles are not allowed in regular spaces--only in spaces with a motorcycle logo on the pavement--even when a hangtag permit is displayed.
- Watch for additional citation violation codes and increases in certain fine amounts related to the use or possession of forged or altered annual, semester or temporary permits. These updates will soon be added to UNC Parking Services Rules, Section 5.