Check the date on whatever Louisville parking page you land on, because the detailed one is three seasons old. The stadium's own site links to a gocards.com page and introduces it as parking information for the 2023 football season, and that 2023 page is still the only place the lot structure is explained properly. What Louisville does publish for 2026 is short and clear in one respect: prepaid parking at the stadium is for season ticket holders, allocated by seat type and location, with a waitlist. Single game fans are pointed to the surface lots west of the stadium and to the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, where numerous cash lots operate. What is not published anywhere we could read is what any of that costs. We could not verify free parking either, so this guide names the options and tells you to price them by phone rather than quoting figures we cannot stand behind.
The short answer
If you hold season tickets: prepaid stadium parking is allocated by seat type and location and there is a 2026 waitlist, so it is a preseason task. If you do not: Louisville tells single game fans to use the surface lots west of the stadium or the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, both served by cash lots, and publishes no price for either. Bring cash, since the lots Louisville points single game fans toward are cash lots. Know which lot family you are in before you drive: the Bronze and Platinum lots still use physical passes mailed out, while the Planet Fitness lots are fully digital and scanned on Floyd Street. Worst plan: budgeting from the numbers on resale and aggregator sites, none of which trace to Louisville.
We could not put a number on stadium parking here, because no single-game rate is published that we could verify. That has been hard to find and we are still looking, so check back. See every College Sports stadium ranked.
Compare every option
| Option | Cost | Walk | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season ticket holder prepaid parkingStadium lot | No public rate published, allocated by seat type and location | Stadium lots | Season ticket holders, and only them |
| Surface lots west of the stadium and the Kentucky Exposition CenterOffsite lot | Cash lots, no rate published by Louisville | Varies, the Expo Center is a longer walk than the western surface lots | Single game fans, which Louisville states explicitly |
| Planet Fitness lots, digital passesStadium lot | Included with a season parking assignment, no separate rate published | At the stadium | Pass holders choosing between being parked and parking themselves |
| Bronze and Platinum lots, physical passesStadium lot | Included with a season parking assignment, no separate rate published | Stadium lots | Season ticket members assigned to them |
Every option, in detail
Stadium lot
Season ticket holder prepaid parking
No public rate published, allocated by seat type and locationStadium lots /// Gameday
Louisville season ticket holders can buy prepaid parking for the stadium lots, with lots assigned depending on seat type and location. A parking waitlist is open for 2026, which is the mechanism when demand exceeds the lots.
Heads up: This is not available to single game buyers, so if you are visiting for one game it is not an option regardless of what resale sites imply. Louisville does not publish a price for it, so the ticket office is the only real source: tickets@gocards.com or 502-852-5151.
Via gocards.com (Louisville Athletics publishes the 2026 football parking waitlist, the rule that season ticket holders may purchase prepaid parking for lots at the stadium, and that lots are assigned depending on seat type and location. No rate is published there or on any Louisville page we could read.)
Offsite lot
Surface lots west of the stadium and the Kentucky Exposition Center
Cash lots, no rate published by LouisvilleVaries, the Expo Center is a longer walk than the western surface lots /// Gameday
Louisville directs single game patrons to park in the surface lots west of the stadium and at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, noting there are numerous cash lots surrounding the stadium and at the Expo Center. The Expo Center sits next to the stadium complex and absorbs a lot of the single game demand.
Heads up: These are cash lots, so arrive with notes rather than expecting a card reader. Louisville publishes no rate for any of them, and we are not repeating the figures that circulate on aggregator and resale sites because none trace back to Louisville or the Expo Center. If the budget matters, call ahead on 502-852-5151. Note also that the Expo Center hosts its own events, so on an overlapping date the lot situation is not the one a football-only guide describes.
Reported by fans, with no official page confirming it. Louisville Athletics publishes the direction that single game patrons should park in the surface lots west of the stadium and at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, and that numerous cash lots surround the stadium and the Expo Center. No price is published by Louisville, and the figures circulating on third party sites are not sourced to Louisville or to the Exposition Center, so none is quoted here.
Stadium lot
Planet Fitness lots, digital passes
Included with a season parking assignment, no separate rate publishedAt the stadium /// Gameday
The Planet Fitness lots are split into five colour coded lots and offer a genuine choice most stadiums do not. Speed Parking in the Purple Lot, which includes ADA, is first come first served with attendants directing you to the next available space and filling the lot north to south. The White, Red, Yellow and Green lots are smaller and are the self park option, where you choose your own space. All of these are digital passes, managed in the Louisville Cardinals app.
Heads up: Download the pass before you leave and have it open on your phone on Floyd Street, because it is scanned before you are allowed into the lot. This detail comes from Louisville's parking page for the 2023 season, which the stadium's own site still links to as its parking information, so confirm the current lot configuration before relying on the colours.
Via gocards.com (Louisville Athletics publishes the Planet Fitness lot reconfiguration into five colour coded lots, the Speed Parking arrangement in the Purple Lot including ADA with attendants filling north to south, the self park option in the White, Red, Yellow and Green lots, the fully digital passes, the app management and the scanning on Floyd Street. That page is presented by the stadium's own site as parking information for the 2023 football season, which is stated here rather than glossed over.)
Stadium lot
Bronze and Platinum lots, physical passes
Included with a season parking assignment, no separate rate publishedStadium lots /// Gameday
The Sun Tan City Bronze and Platinum lots run on physical passes mailed to season ticket members rather than digital ones, which makes them the exception at a stadium that otherwise moved to mobile. Bronze covers lots E and J plus D, F, G, H, K, M, 10 and 11.
Heads up: A physical pass is a thing you can leave at home, and unlike a mobile pass there is no downloading it at the gate. Same caveat as above: this is from Louisville's 2023 season page, so confirm the arrangement still holds before the first home game.
Via gocards.com (Louisville Athletics publishes that the Sun Tan City Bronze and Platinum lots keep physical passes mailed to season ticket members, and lists the Bronze lot groupings E and J and D, F, G, H, K, M, 10 and 11. That page is dated to the 2023 football season.)
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Skip parking entirely
Louisville does not publish a gameday shuttle or a recommended transit route the way several schools in this set do. Its own advice to single game fans is a parking instruction rather than a transit one: use the surface lots west of the stadium or the Exposition Center.
What Louisville actually recommends
Cash lot rates, unpublishedSingle game patrons are directed to the surface lots west of the stadium and to the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center. That is the official answer to how a visiting fan should arrive, and it assumes a car.
Reported by fans, with no official page confirming it. Louisville Athletics publishes this direction for single game patrons. It is reproduced here because it is the school's own recommendation, not because we could verify what those lots charge.
Confirm before you travel
Free to askBecause the detailed parking page dates to the 2023 season and no current rates are published, the ticket office is the reliable source for this stadium: tickets@gocards.com, or call or text 502-852-5151.
Reported by fans, with no official page confirming it. Contact details are published by Louisville Athletics. Recommended here because the published parking detail is three seasons old, which is the central finding of this guide.
When to get there
Louisville does not publish a lot opening time for gameday on any current page we could read, which is unusual and is part of the same gap as the missing prices. What it does publish is a routing instruction: single game fans to the surface lots west of the stadium and the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center. If you hold a digital pass for the Planet Fitness lots, have it open on your phone by the time you are on Floyd Street, because it is scanned before entry rather than at a booth further in. If you are in the Purple Lot on Speed Parking, arrival order is the only thing that decides your space, since attendants fill the lot north to south and you take the next one available.
Getting out after
With no published gameday transit route and the school's own advice pointing at car parking, leaving is a road problem rather than a schedule one. The Exposition Center side has the advantage of feeding a different set of roads from the stadium lots proper, which is worth weighing on arrival rather than after the game. Check whether the Expo Center has an event of its own that day, because that changes both the lot availability and the traffic on the way out.
Tailgating rules
We could not find Louisville publishing tailgating rules on any current page, and we are not going to invent them. The 2023 parking page explains the lot structure and the pass formats and does not set out conduct rules for the lots, and no current gameday page we could read fills the gap.
That absence is worth treating as a reason to ask rather than as permission. Grilling, alcohol, tent sizes and how much space a pass entitles you to are exactly the rules that differ most between schools in this set, from Kentucky's four inch stake limit up the road to BYU's outright alcohol ban, so assuming Louisville matches a neighbour is a bad bet. The ticket office on 502-852-5151 or tickets@gocards.com is the place to settle it before you load the car. If you are in the Planet Fitness lots, note that the Purple Lot is attendant directed Speed Parking, which by its nature leaves you less control over where you end up than the self park lots do.
Via gocards.com
Questions, answered
- How much does parking cost at L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium?
- If you hold season tickets: prepaid stadium parking is allocated by seat type and location and there is a 2026 waitlist, so it is a preseason task. If you do not: Louisville tells single game fans to use the surface lots west of the stadium or the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, both served by cash lots, and publishes no price for either. Bring cash, since the lots Louisville points single game fans toward are cash lots. Know which lot family you are in before you drive: the Bronze and Platinum lots still use physical passes mailed out, while the Planet Fitness lots are fully digital and scanned on Floyd Street. Worst plan: budgeting from the numbers on resale and aggregator sites, none of which trace to Louisville.
- Is there free parking near L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium?
- There is no reliable free parking near L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium. The cheapest options are listed above.
- What time should I get to a Louisville game?
- Louisville does not publish a lot opening time for gameday on any current page we could read, which is unusual and is part of the same gap as the missing prices. What it does publish is a routing instruction: single game fans to the surface lots west of the stadium and the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center. If you hold a digital pass for the Planet Fitness lots, have it open on your phone by the time you are on Floyd Street, because it is scanned before entry rather than at a booth further in. If you are in the Purple Lot on Speed Parking, arrival order is the only thing that decides your space, since attendants fill the lot north to south and you take the next one available.
- Can you get to L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium without a car?
- Louisville does not publish a gameday shuttle or a recommended transit route the way several schools in this set do. Its own advice to single game fans is a parking instruction rather than a transit one: use the surface lots west of the stadium or the Exposition Center. What Louisville actually recommends: Cash lot rates, unpublished.
The detailed parking page is from the 2023 season and the stadium's own website still links to it as its parking information. Everything about lot colours and pass formats on this page carries that caveat.
Louisville publishes no price for gameday parking anywhere we could read, for season lots or cash lots. Figures on resale and aggregator sites do not trace back to Louisville and are not repeated here.
Prepaid stadium parking is for season ticket holders only, assigned by seat type and location, with a 2026 waitlist. Single game buyers cannot get it.
Louisville's own instruction to single game fans is to use the surface lots west of the stadium or the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, and it describes those as cash lots, so bring notes.
The two lot families work differently. Bronze and Platinum still use physical passes mailed out; the Planet Fitness lots are fully digital and scanned on Floyd Street before you enter.
The Purple Lot is attendant directed Speed Parking filled north to south, while White, Red, Yellow and Green are self park. That choice is unusual and worth making deliberately.
No tailgating rules are published on any current page we could find, which is a reason to call the ticket office rather than to assume the lots are permissive.
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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