The APA offers a variety of options to park in and around the city. We have 1500 Metered parking spaces. Meters that are situated in our PPL Event Area (Hamilton Street, from 4th to 12th Streets and the unit blocks north and south of Hamilton Street (Linden to Walnut Streets) from 4th to 12 Streets) have a rate of $2.00 per hour and payment may be made with coins, bills, credit/debit cards, or with your Park Mobile or PayByPhone app. Meters in all other locations have a rate of $1.00 per hour and payment may be made with coins, or with your Park Mobile mobile app.
We have 21 surface lots, that offer over 700 spaces, where 6 of those lots have paystations for public parking (North, C Lot, Germania, Dubbs, 7A, and Alliance Hall).
There are 7 parking garages in the downtown area offering over 4,500 spaces to park.
You can now use digital ticket checkout at the ATC (Allentown Transportation Center), Community, Government, and Strata Decks. Click here for more information.
Beginning April 1, 2024, the public parking rate for all garages will be $1.00 per hour for the 1st hour and $2.00 per hour for hours 2-6. Daily max rate is $29.00 (lost ticket rate = $29)
All garages are enforced 24 hrs. a day.
Parkers will have a 15-minute grace period upon entering the garage where they can exit the garage for free.
After paying the garage ticket, parkers will have 15 minutes to exit the garage.
All rates are subject to change on event dates.