Parking at LaVell Edwards Stadium

Stadium lot

Adjacent to the stadium /// 4 hours before kickoff

The lots immediately around LaVell Edwards Stadium are reserved. Passes are digital and lot specific, so you cannot buy one lot and park in another, and BYU asks that you download the pass before leaving home to keep the lot entrances moving. Purchase runs through BYUtickets.com or the ticket office on 801-422-2981.

Heads up: The hold is the part worth planning around: reserved lots are held for pass holders until approximately the end of the first quarter. So a space sitting empty at kickoff is not available to you, and waiting for one costs you the first quarter. Assume the reserved ring is closed unless you hold a pass.

Via tickets.byu.edu (BYU's official ticketing site publishes the four hour lot opening, the digital and lot specific pass format, the hold for pass holders until approximately the end of the first quarter, and the purchase channels including the 801-422-2981 ticket office number.)

Stadium lot

Marriott Center lots and the intramural fields, a walk of roughly 10 to 20 minutes /// Not published

BYU Athletics directs visitors without reserved passes to the lots surrounding the Marriott Center, numbered 19, 20, 22 and 23, and to a variety of other locations around campus including the intramural fields directly west of lot 45 across University Avenue. That is the practical answer for a visiting fan, and it is a real walk rather than a stadium lot.

Heads up: We could not verify what this costs. BYU publishes its reserved parking rules, its tailgating policy, its RV arrangements and its accessible shuttle in detail and never names a general parking rate, and its own framing separates pass holders from everyone else rather than separating paid from free. Several third party guides state the outer lots are free. We could not confirm that at the source, the BYU fan guide at les.byucougars.com would not load its content when we checked, and we are not publishing free parking on someone else's say so. Budget for a charge and be pleased if there is not one.

Via byucougars.com (BYU Athletics publishes that visitors without reserved passes may use the lots surrounding the Marriott Center, numbered 19, 20, 22 and 23, and other campus locations including the intramural fields west of lot 45 across University Avenue. No rate appears on that page or on any BYU page we could read. The claim that these lots are free appears on third party and tourism guides only and is reported here as unverified.)

Stadium lot

55 E 1230 N on Cougar Blvd /// 8 a.m. on all home game days

Lot 18 is the designated tailgate lot and it is unusually generous on space: tailgaters are allowed two parking stalls per vehicle, where most schools sell you one and forbid saving a second. Cars, vans, trucks and motorcycles are all welcome, and unlike many tailgate lots, RVs and camp trailers are permitted here too. BYU provides a limited number of portable restrooms, dumpsters and recycling bins. The lot opens at 8 a.m. regardless of kickoff and stays open until two hours after the game.

Heads up: First come, first served, with no overnight parking, though there is one exception worth knowing: for kickoffs at 7 p.m. or later you may stay until 8 a.m. the following morning. There are no electrical or water hookups. No fireworks, no tent pegs or spikes, no pets, and nothing may be attached to BYU fixtures or landscaping, which rules out tying flags and banners to light poles and trees.

Via security.byu.edu (BYU Security publishes the Lot 18 address at 55 E 1230 N on Cougar Blvd, the 8 a.m. opening on all home game days, the close two hours after the game, the first come first served basis, the no overnight rule and its 7 p.m. kickoff exception, the permitted vehicle types including RVs and camp trailers, the two stalls per vehicle allowance, the provision of portable restrooms and bins, and the bans on hookups, fireworks, tent pegs, pets and attaching items to BYU fixtures.)

Stadium lot

Wherever you parked /// With the lot

This is the quietly unusual one. BYU permits tailgating in regular campus lots, not only in the designated tailgate lot, provided it does not take additional stalls or block travel lanes and stays directly behind or in front of your own vehicle. Most schools in this set confine tailgating to named lots and treat anything else as a violation. Propane and wood-pellet grills are allowed out here too.

Heads up: The permission is narrow and the wording is specific: directly behind or in front of your vehicle, no extra stalls, no blocking travel lanes. This is room for a couple of chairs and a grill, not a canopy and a crowd. If you want the two stall allowance, you have to be in Lot 18.

Via security.byu.edu (BYU Security publishes the permission to tailgate in other lots subject to not taking additional stalls or blocking travel lanes, the requirement that activity stay directly behind or in front of the vehicle, and that propane and wood-pellet grills are allowed while charcoal and open wood flame are not.)

Offsite lot

2230 North 150 East on Canyon Road, about three blocks north of the stadium /// For RVs arriving too late for Lot 18

BYU runs a separate overflow lot for RVs and oversized vehicles that do not arrive in time for the tailgate lot, roughly three blocks north of LaVell Edwards Stadium. It is first come, first served with limited space.

Heads up: This lot is for parking only. Tailgating is not permitted there, which makes it a very different proposition from Lot 18, and vehicles must vacate at least three hours after the game. If the tailgate is the reason you brought the RV, arriving early enough for Lot 18 is the whole plan.

Via tickets.byu.edu (BYU's official ticketing site publishes the late arriving RV lot at 2230 North 150 East on Canyon Road, its distance of about three blocks north of the stadium, the parking only restriction with no tailgating, the first come first served basis with limited space, and the requirement to vacate at least three hours after the game.)

Stadium lot

IT Building lot, Lot 58, plus limited spaces in Lot 2A /// Shuttle runs from 2 hours before kickoff

Accessible parking is in the IT Building lot, Lot 58, for holders of a state issued disability permit, with a limited number of additional first come, first served spaces in Lot 2A. BYU runs a complimentary shuttle roughly every 15 minutes, starting two hours before kickoff and running until an hour after the game.

Heads up: The Lot 2A spaces are limited and not reservable, so Lot 58 with a state permit is the dependable version. Note the shuttle starts two hours out, which is six hours after the tailgate lot opens, so an early arrival means a long gap before the shuttle is running.

Via tickets.byu.edu (BYU's official ticketing site publishes the IT Building Lot 58 accessible parking for state issued disability permit holders, the limited first come spaces in Lot 2A, and the complimentary shuttle running approximately every 15 minutes from two hours before kickoff until one hour after the game.)