Parking at McLane Stadium

Stadium lot

McLane Lots 1 to 4 and the Gold Lot are at the stadium, the rest are across campus /// Gameday, with the street closure starting three hours before kickoff

Baylor's prepaid, season long lots are McLane Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, the Gold Lot, Umphrey Law School, the Ferrell Center, Dutton Garage and Speight Garage. The distinction that matters on arrival: McLane Lots 1 and 2 and the Gold Lot are assigned, so your ticket carries a space number, while the Law School, Ferrell Center, Dutton Garage and Speight Garage are not assigned. Your digital pass shows a two to four letter lot code, and signage along the route uses the same codes, so match the letters rather than following a map app blindly. Baylor points fans at Waze and publishes a custom route link per lot.

Heads up: The re-entry rule is the one to plan around. Every pass has a unique QR code, the pass is invalid without it, and once the code has been scanned and you leave your designated parking or RV lot, you are not allowed back in. So a trip out to a restaurant between tailgate and kickoff ends your parking. Note also that University Parks Drive is closed from the Law School to Bagby Avenue from three hours before kickoff until an hour postgame, which changes how you reach several of these lots.

Via baylorbears.com (Baylor Athletics publishes the full list of prepaid season long lots, which of them are assigned against unassigned, the QR code requirement and the rule that the pass is invalid without it, the no re-entry rule after scanning, the two to four letter lot codes and matching signage, the Waze routing, and the University Parks Drive closure window. No season prices appear on that page.)

Stadium lot

Depends which lot has inventory /// Gameday

Baylor states that a limited number of single game parking passes may be available for purchase while inventory lasts, through BaylorBears.com/tickets or the Athletics Ticket Office on 254-710-1000. That is the entire public route to parking at McLane, and it is conditional rather than guaranteed.

Heads up: No price is published on Baylor's parking page and we are not going to estimate one. Aggregator sites circulate a figure for prepaid Baylor parking and we have deliberately left it out, because it does not trace to anything Baylor publishes. Call the ticket office before you drive to Waco, because the honest summary is that you cannot know from the outside whether there is anything to buy or what it costs.

Via baylorbears.com (Baylor Athletics states that a limited number of single game parking passes may be available while inventory lasts and names the tickets site and the ticket office number. It publishes no price for them, which is why none appears here.)

Offsite lot

None, the shuttle drops at the northwest corner of the McLane Stadium site /// Three hours before kickoff, running until an hour postgame

The Downtown Shuttle picks up at Heritage Square, at 3rd and Austin Avenue, and drops at the northwest corner of the McLane Stadium site. It runs from three hours before kickoff until an hour after the game. For a visitor with no pass this is the most practical way in, because it does not depend on stadium lot inventory.

Heads up: This is the one shuttle that does not return you where it dropped you. Baylor states that all shuttles pick up postgame at the same place they drop off pregame, except the Downtown Shuttle, which drops west of I-35 before the game and east of I-35 after it. Know which side you are on before you go looking. We could not verify a shuttle fare or what parking at Heritage Square costs, so confirm both rather than assuming either is free.

Via baylorbears.com (Baylor Athletics publishes the Downtown Shuttle's pickup at Heritage Square, its drop at the northwest corner of the McLane site, the three hour to one hour postgame window, and the I-35 side change between pregame and postgame. It publishes no fare, and Heritage Square parking rates are set by the city rather than Baylor, so neither figure appears here.)

Stadium lot

100 Research Parkway, with a shuttle to gate C /// Four hours before kickoff, the earliest of any Baylor shuttle

This is the one number Baylor publishes. Accessible parking is at the BRIC lot, 100 Research Parkway, where a limited number of first come, first served spots are available for $25, with proper ADA plates or a placard displayed to enter. Parking staff direct you once inside. The BRIC shuttle drops near gate C and starts four hours before kickoff, running until an hour postgame, which is the longest window of any Baylor shuttle by two hours.

Heads up: Limited and first come, first served, with an early shuttle precisely because the lot is a distance out, so arriving four hours ahead is the intent rather than keenness. An ADA placard is required to park at BRIC at all, so it is not a general overflow lot. For accommodations beyond this, Baylor asks you to call the ticket office on 254-710-1000 rather than sorting it on the day.

Via baylorbears.com (Baylor Athletics publishes the BRIC lot address, the $25 first come first served rate, the ADA plate or placard requirement, the direction by parking staff, and the BRIC shuttle's gate C drop with its four hour to one hour postgame window.)

Offsite lot

The McLane tailgate area /// Gameday

REVELxp is Baylor's official tailgating partner and sells both season and single game packages, described as full service and hassle free, which for a visiting group means the equipment is there when you arrive. Contact is 254-870-0950 or the REVELxp site. This is also the only tailgating product a non donor can buy, since the RV tailgate spaces are reserved for Bear Foundation members holding a season long RV tailgate pass.

Heads up: No price is published by Baylor, and it is a commercial rate rather than a university fee. Note the RV situation carefully if you were planning to bring one: Baylor's page only describes RV tailgating for Bear Foundation members with a season pass parking in their designated location, and does not describe a single game public RV option, so call 254-710-1000 before towing anything to Waco.

Via baylorbears.com (Baylor Athletics names REVELxp as its official tailgating partner with season and single game packages and publishes its phone number, and separately states that Bear Foundation members with a season long RV tailgate pass park in their designated location. No price appears for either, and no public single game RV option is described.)