Arkansas is one of the few programs this size where the honest answer is free. There are more than 1,800 free spaces in the paved lot east of Razorback Road across from Baum Stadium, about a mile south of the stadium, and a free university shuttle runs from it and drops you at Gate 1. Two things have changed that older guides still get wrong. The lot immediately north of Baum Stadium and the lot north of the Randal Tyson Track Center are no longer free parking: they now require $5 admission to a private tailgating event. And RVs are no longer allowed in any campus lot at all, so every RV goes to Road Hog Park. One more honest note: Arkansas's own pages disagree about when the shuttle starts, and we have not resolved it for them.
The short answer
Cheapest, and the answer most people should take: the free paved lot east of Razorback Road across from Baum Stadium, more than 1,800 spaces, with a free shuttle to Gate 1. Cheap and paid: the Spring Street Parking Garage or the West Avenue Parking Deck at $10 all day, with Spring Street including a free shuttle from the Walton Arts Center. Closest paid: the Harmon Avenue Parking Garage at $25, first come first served. RVs: Road Hog Park only, because campus lots no longer take them. Free for buses: Baum Stadium, no charge and no reservations. Worst plan: the residential neighborhood west of the stadium, where university police say violators are towed.
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Compare every option
| Option | Cost | Walk | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free lot east of Razorback Road, at Baum StadiumFree street | Free | None, a free shuttle runs to Gate 1 | Almost everybody, and it is genuinely free rather than free with conditions |
| Spring Street Parking Garage and West Avenue Parking DeckOffsite lot | $10 all day, each | Downtown Fayetteville, with a free shuttle from the Walton Arts Center for Spring Street | Making a day of downtown and Dickson Street rather than only the game |
| Harmon Avenue Parking GarageStadium lot | $25 per vehicle | On campus, the closest paid structure | Paying to be close, with no interest in a shuttle |
| RV parking at Road Hog ParkStadium lot | Priority and non priority tiers, prices not published | About a mile south, off Razorback Road and east on 15th Street | RVs, which now have exactly one option here |
| Accessible parking, Lots 320 to 322Stadium lot | Not published | Corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Razorback Road, with a free shuttle | Anyone needing accessible parking without a season arrangement |
Every option, in detail
Free street
Free lot east of Razorback Road, at Baum Stadium
FreeNone, a free shuttle runs to Gate 1 /// Gameday, and the shuttle timing is disputed between two official pages
This is the one worth driving for. Arkansas keeps a large paved lot east of Razorback Road across from Baum Stadium, roughly a mile south of the stadium between Martin Luther King and 15th Street, with more than 1,800 spaces at no charge. Free public shuttles run from both east and west of Razorback Road and drop fans at Gate 1 on the southwest corner of the stadium. University police add the detail that matters most after a loss: the shuttle keeps making trips back to Baum until every fan has been returned to their vehicle.
Heads up: Arkansas contradicts itself on when the shuttle starts. Its public parking and shuttle page and the university police gameday page both say four hours before kickoff, while its main parking page says three. Plan for the later of the two and you cannot be wrong. Separately, the lot immediately north of Baum Stadium and the lot north of the Randal Tyson Track Center are no longer free: those now require $5 admission to a private tailgating event, so aim for the paved lot east of Razorback Road specifically rather than anything simply near Baum.
Via arkansasrazorbacks.com (Arkansas Athletics publishes the free paved lot east of Razorback Road, its 1,800 plus capacity, the Gate 1 drop off, the four hour shuttle start, and the $5 private tailgating admission now required at the two lots that used to be free. The three hour figure appears on the athletics department's own separate parking page, and the return service detail comes from the University of Arkansas Police gameday page. We have reported the disagreement rather than picking one.)
Offsite lot
Spring Street Parking Garage and West Avenue Parking Deck
$10 all day, eachDowntown Fayetteville, with a free shuttle from the Walton Arts Center for Spring Street /// Garage hours
Two city decks run $10 for all day parking. The Spring Street Parking Garage includes a free shuttle ride from the Walton Arts Center, which is the part that makes it work for the game. The West Avenue Parking Deck sits north of Dickson Street at the same $10 rate. Either one puts you in walking distance of the Dickson Street bars and restaurants rather than in a field a mile south of the stadium.
Heads up: West Avenue is priced the same but the shuttle is only stated for Spring Street, so treat West Avenue as a walk or a rideshare to the stadium rather than assuming a bus. Neither is a gameday lot held for football, so neither is guaranteed to have space, and we could not verify how early either fills on a game Saturday.
Via arkansasrazorbacks.com (Arkansas Athletics publishes the $10 all day rate for both the Spring Street Parking Garage and the West Avenue Parking Deck, notes the free Walton Arts Center shuttle with Spring Street, and places West Avenue north of Dickson Street.)
Stadium lot
Harmon Avenue Parking Garage
$25 per vehicleOn campus, the closest paid structure /// Gameday, first come first served
The Harmon Avenue Parking Garage charges $25 per vehicle on a first come first served basis. It is the campus option a visitor can actually buy, and it is the shortest walk of anything priced here.
Heads up: First come first served means exactly that, with no reservation and no guarantee, so it is a plan that needs a fallback. The free Baum lot is the obvious one, but it is a mile south, which is a real detour if you have already driven to campus and found the garage full. Traffic around the stadium is restricted starting four hours before kickoff, so a late arrival is contending with closed routes as well as a full garage.
Via arkansasrazorbacks.com (Arkansas Athletics publishes the $25 per vehicle rate at the Harmon Avenue Parking Garage and the first come first served basis. The four hour traffic restriction comes from the University of Arkansas Police gameday page.)
Stadium lot
RV parking at Road Hog Park
Priority and non priority tiers, prices not publishedAbout a mile south, off Razorback Road and east on 15th Street /// Contact the operator
The rule to know before you drive: RV parking is not allowed in any campus parking lot. All of it has moved to Road Hog Park, at the intersection of Razorback Road and 15th Street, roughly a mile south of the stadium, which offers both priority and non priority parking. Arrangements go through the operator directly on 479-409-8178 or roadhogs2011@att.net.
Heads up: Arkansas does not publish a Road Hog Park price, so we cannot give you one and will not estimate. Call before you tow anything to Fayetteville, because there is no campus fallback if this is full: the campus ban on RV parking is absolute rather than a preference.
Via arkansasrazorbacks.com (Arkansas Athletics states that RV parking is not allowed in any campus parking lot, names Road Hog Park with its location and priority and non priority tiers, and publishes the operator's phone number and email. No price is published on that page. Its public parking page separately confirms all RV parking is now located at Road Hog Park.)
Stadium lot
Accessible parking, Lots 320 to 322
Not publishedCorner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Razorback Road, with a free shuttle /// Gameday, first come first served
Accessible parking is first come first served in Lots 320 to 322 at the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard, which is 6th Street, and Razorback Road, with overflow at Baum East. Free shuttle service serves it. Unlike several programs this size, Arkansas does not restrict accessible gameday parking to season pass holders.
Heads up: First come first served with an overflow lot a mile south means arriving early genuinely matters here, because the fallback is the Baum East lot rather than another space nearby. Arkansas does not publish a price for these lots, so confirm before you go.
Via arkansasrazorbacks.com (Arkansas Athletics publishes Lots 320 to 322 at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Razorback Road as first come first served accessible parking, with Baum East as overflow and free shuttle service. No price is stated.)
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Skip parking entirely
Fayetteville has no rail, and it does not need any, because the free shuttle from the free lot does the work. The unusual part is the return service: university police say it keeps running until every fan has been taken back to their vehicle.
Free university gameday shuttle from Baum Stadium
FreeRuns from both east and west of Razorback Road and drops fans at Gate 1 on the southwest corner of the stadium. University police put the start at four hours before kickoff, and say return trips continue until all fans are back at their vehicles after the game. The athletics department's separate parking page says three hours, so plan for four.
Via uapd.uark.edu
Walton Arts Center shuttle, with Spring Street parking
Free with $10 all day parking at the Spring Street Parking GarageParking in the Spring Street Parking Garage includes a free shuttle ride from the Walton Arts Center. This is the downtown version of the day: park near Dickson Street, ride in, and walk back to the bars rather than to a field.
Bus parking
FreeBus parking is at Baum Baseball Stadium off Razorback Road, roughly a mile south of the stadium, at no charge. Space cannot be reserved, so a group arriving by charter is on the same first come basis as everyone else.
When to get there
Traffic around the stadium is restricted starting four hours before kickoff, and the free shuttle from Baum starts at the same point according to the police and the athletics public parking page, though the athletics parking page says three hours. Kickoff times are set about a week out by television, so treat all of this as relative to kickoff rather than as a fixed clock. University police route gameday traffic on color coded routes, blue, orange, green and red, tied to specific lots, so the route you are told to take depends on where you are parked rather than where you are coming from. Look up your lot's route before you leave, because being in the wrong lane a mile out is what turns a 20 minute approach into an hour.
Getting out after
This is where the free option quietly beats the paid ones. The shuttle back to Baum keeps running until every fan has been returned to their vehicle, which is a stronger commitment than most programs make and it means there is no penalty for staying to the end. Driving out of campus is the slower path, and the one thing not to try is the residential neighborhood west of the stadium: university police state there is no parking there and that violators will be towed, which also means those streets are not a shortcut.
Tailgating rules
Fans point newcomers to the Gardens, the lawn area on campus that functions as the main tailgating ground, and visiting fans consistently describe being fed and handed a drink by groups they had never met. That hospitality is the most repeated thing anyone says about a Fayetteville gameday.
We could not find published tailgating rules from Arkansas, and we are not going to invent them. The athletics parking pages cover lots, prices and shuttles without stating grill, alcohol, tent or generator policy, and the university police gameday page covers traffic routing and enforcement rather than conduct in the lots. So the practical questions, whether charcoal is allowed, whether you may hold a space, what time you can set up, do not have an answer we can point at. Call the Razorback Ticket Center before you pack a grill. What we can tell you firmly is where not to go: university police say there is no parking in the residential neighborhood west of the stadium and that violators are towed.
Via source
Questions, answered
- How much does parking cost at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium?
- Stadium lots start at $25. Cheapest, and the answer most people should take: the free paved lot east of Razorback Road across from Baum Stadium, more than 1,800 spaces, with a free shuttle to Gate 1. Cheap and paid: the Spring Street Parking Garage or the West Avenue Parking Deck at $10 all day, with Spring Street including a free shuttle from the Walton Arts Center. Closest paid: the Harmon Avenue Parking Garage at $25, first come first served. RVs: Road Hog Park only, because campus lots no longer take them. Free for buses: Baum Stadium, no charge and no reservations. Worst plan: the residential neighborhood west of the stadium, where university police say violators are towed.
- Is there free parking near Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium?
- Free lot east of Razorback Road, at Baum Stadium: Free, None, a free shuttle runs to Gate 1. Arkansas contradicts itself on when the shuttle starts. Its public parking and shuttle page and the university police gameday page both say four hours before kickoff, while its main parking page says three. Plan for the later of the two and you cannot be wrong. Separately, the lot immediately north of Baum Stadium and the lot north of the Randal Tyson Track Center are no longer free: those now require $5 admission to a private tailgating event, so aim for the paved lot east of Razorback Road specifically rather than anything simply near Baum.
- What time should I get to a Arkansas game?
- Traffic around the stadium is restricted starting four hours before kickoff, and the free shuttle from Baum starts at the same point according to the police and the athletics public parking page, though the athletics parking page says three hours. Kickoff times are set about a week out by television, so treat all of this as relative to kickoff rather than as a fixed clock. University police route gameday traffic on color coded routes, blue, orange, green and red, tied to specific lots, so the route you are told to take depends on where you are parked rather than where you are coming from. Look up your lot's route before you leave, because being in the wrong lane a mile out is what turns a 20 minute approach into an hour.
- Can you get to Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium without a car?
- Fayetteville has no rail, and it does not need any, because the free shuttle from the free lot does the work. The unusual part is the return service: university police say it keeps running until every fan has been taken back to their vehicle. Free university gameday shuttle from Baum Stadium: Free.
Two lots stopped being free. The lot immediately north of Baum Stadium and the lot north of the Randal Tyson Track Center now require $5 admission to a private tailgating event in order to park there. The free lot is the paved one east of Razorback Road, so being near Baum is not the same as being free.
RVs are banned from every campus lot. Road Hog Park at Razorback Road and 15th Street is the only option, it has priority and non priority tiers, and it is run by an operator you have to contact directly rather than a university ticket page.
Arkansas disagrees with itself about the shuttle. Two official pages say four hours before kickoff, one says three. Plan for four.
The free lots go beyond Baum. Arkansas also names the Shaver Foods and Ayrshire Electronics parking lots west of Beechwood Street as free public parking, which is worth knowing when the main paved lot is filling.
We could not find Arkansas's tailgating rules published anywhere, which is unusual for an SEC program and is stated plainly on the page rather than filled in with guesses.
Sourced from the stadium, the city, local outlets, and fans who park here every week. Checked July 2026, and we recheck three times a year. Prices and lot rules change, so every claim above either links where it came from or says plainly that it is fan-reported and unconfirmed. Click through before you build your day around one spot.
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