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Elgin Street Garage
Suite 110
4224 Elgin Street
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-2007
Phone: 832-842-1097
Email: parking@uh.edu
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Elgin Street Garage
4224 Elgin St., Building E
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-2007
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Visitor Parking

Visitors can park in designated areas across campus for an hourly fee. You’ll find parking options in UH garages and in marked pay-by-phone visitor spaces.

Where Visitors Can Park

Garage Visitor Parking

Some UH parking garages offer convenient visitor parking. Simply pull a ticket at entry and pay with a debit or credit card when you leave.

Pay-by-Phone Visitor Spaces

Some surface lots include visitor spaces marked with orange striping. Signs in these areas explain how to pay using your mobile phone. Payment must be made before you leave your vehicle, and your payment is valid only for the specific location where you parked.

Note: Parking permits do not replace payment in visitor parking areas.

Important Rules for Visitor Parking

  • Parking is paid and enforced at all times.
  • Your payment applies only to the location you selected. If you move your vehicle to a different visitor area, new payment is required.
  • Vehicles with unpaid UH parking violations may be subject to towing or immobilization.

Accessible Visitor Parking

Accessible visitor parking is available throughout campus.

  • Visitors with valid ADA credentials may park in any ADA space within the visitor parking locations and pay the posted visitor rate.
  • ADA spaces that are not within a designated paid visitor parking area require a valid UH parking permit, in addition to the valid ADA credentials. Violators are subject to ticketing and/or towing.
  • Proof of ADA eligibility must be provided upon request by UH Parking Enforcement or UHPD.

 

Paid visitor parking is available across campus. This map shows the options. Here are the visitor parking rates. There is no free parking on campus.

  • Visitor parking spaces not in a gated location use a pay-by-phone system. Signage is posted at these areas explaining how to use the pay-by-phone option. These spaces are marked with orange striping to distinguish them from non-visitor spaces.
  • Visitor parking in the garages accepts credit/debit cards.
  • No matter which payment option is used, you must park at the location that you paid. You cannot move from one location on campus to another unless you pay at both locations.
  • Parking permits are not a substitute for paying to park in a visitor space.
  • Vehicles that are parked in visitor parking locations are subject to immobilization or towing if found to have UH parking violations that have not been paid.

Accessible Visitor Parking

Parking and Transportation Services has provided parking accommodations for visitors with disabilities in locations across campus. Payment is required and the fee for parking in these areas is posted at the entrance to each parking facility. Visitors with valid ADA credentials may park in any ungated ADA space on campus and utilize the pay-by-phone system. Signage is posted at these areas explaining how to use the pay-by-phone option. 

Other designated accessible parking spaces on campus are for the exclusive use of vehicles displaying county-issued ISA disabled hangtags or ISA disabled license plates and having a valid University of Houston parking permit linked to their license plate. Violators are subject to ticketing and/or towing.

The ISA disabled hangtag or ISA disabled license plate must be issued in the name of the person with a disability utilizing the vehicle parked in an accessible space. ISA disabled placards, drivers license, identification card and similar information must be provided upon request by a uniformed Parking and Transportation Services Officer or University Police Officer in order to demonstrate proof of eligibility for accessible parking.

With a county-issued ISA disabled hangtag or ISA disabled license plate plus a University of Houston parking permit, a person may park in any available unrestricted space. This does not extend to reserved spaces, hourly visitor or pay-by-phone spaces, and the lots on campus that do not allow for overnight parking between the hours of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.

Evening/Weekend/Event Parking

During periods of high parking volumes, Parking and Transportation Services will be converting surface lots in the high volume areas from valid UH permit only parking to evening/weekend/event parking on weekdays after 4 p.m. and all day on weekends.

Each of these areas will be staffed with easily identifiable parking attendants who will pre-collect the parking fee and issue event parking tickets to each vehicle not displaying a valid UH parking permit. The cost of event parking will be $10 and payment can be made with either cash or credit card.

There will be times, such as on athletic game days and University sponsored events, where these evening/weekend/event parking areas will not be staffed by PTS for guest/event parking. Visit the Special Event Parking Page for more details on these events. On these days, guests will need to utilize one of the other campus parking options.

In the event that no attendants are in place, evening/weekend/event parking will only be available in visitor garages and meter parking. Any vehicle parked on UH campus without the proper and valid UH parking permit or having paid for guest/event parking, will be subject to citation or tow.