Paycor Stadium Parking & Directions
Cincinnati Bengals · Cincinnati, OH
- Cheapest lot
- $10
- Lots listed
- 4
- Closest
- 0.1-0.3 miles
Bengals parking includes the Central Riverfront garages and surface lots around Paycor Stadium. Many adjacent facilities admit game-day drivers only with a Bengals Parking Pass. The club also names downtown Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky alternatives, while tailgating is permitted in Bengals parking areas with open flames restricted to surface lots.
Parking Maps
Find your lot and plan your route. Maps open in a new tab so you can keep this guide handy.
Tips & Fan Reports
What fans who park here actually do, and what it cost them.
Park at the casino for free and Lime scooter to the stadium. Or park in Covington/Newport in Kentucky and walk across the bridges - way easier to get on I-75 quickly after the game.
If you're a visiting fan, park in Newport or Covington and ride the shuttle buses across. Much easier to get on I-75 from the Kentucky side after the game.
TANK's Southbank Shuttle serves the Covington and Newport riverfronts on game days.
Accessible spaces in each lot are for season ticket holders carrying a pass for that lot.
Rideshare uses 2nd Street between Vine and Walnut.
Driving directions are published as a Waze link per lot rather than as routes. Open the one for your lot.
Cincinnati Metro is $2.20 each way from anywhere in Hamilton County.
TANK's Southbank Shuttle costs $1 from the Kentucky riverfront on game days.
The streetcar is free, runs every 12 to 15 minutes and has 18 stops, the cheapest way in.
Where to Park
Official Paycor Stadium Lots
$350.1-0.3 miles
The club's adjacent parking includes CRG Premium, West, Mid and East garages and the listed stadium surface lots.
The Banks Garage
$250.2 miles
The Central Riverfront garages are identified as CRG Premium, CRG West, CRG Mid and CRG East.
Downtown Cincinnati Garages
$150.5-0.8 miles
Downtown alternatives named by the Bengals include the Duke Energy Center, Fountain Square, Enquirer Building and Scripps Center garages.
Northern Kentucky / Covington
$100.8 miles (across bridge)Cheapest
The club lists Northern Kentucky parking in Newport, including the South Lot, Beer Sellar and Hooters lots.
- TANK game-day shuttle available
Or Skip the Car
- Metro Bus · $2.2 · Cincinnati Metro bus routes serve downtown and the riverfront, limited frequency on game days
- Walking (from downtown) · Most downtown hotels are 10-20 minutes on foot via 4th Street or Walnut Street to the riverfront
- Walking from Northern Kentucky · Cross the Roebling Suspension Bridge from Covington, a scenic 15-minute walk to the stadium
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- The garages open six hours before kickoff; the surface lots open four hours before.
- The garages are CRG Premium (purple), CRG West (green), CRG Mid (yellow) and CRG East (blue).
- The surface lots are 1U, A, B, D, E, Hilltop, Hilltop North and Longworth Hall.
- Many of the lots and garages adjacent to Paycor Stadium are only accessible on game days with a Bengals Parking Pass.
- Downtown and Northern Kentucky alternatives include the Duke Energy Center Garages 1 and 2, Fountain Square Garage, Enquirer Building Garage, 3rd and Race Street Lot, Scripps Center Garage, 3rd and Main Lot, Queen City Square Garage, Western and Southern Garage, and the South Lot, Beer Sellar and Hooters lots in Newport, KY.
Accessible Parking
Accessible spaces exist in every lot, but they are tied to a season-ticket pass for that lot rather than sold separately. There are two drop-off points, one for each gate.
- Every lot provides accessible parking spaces for season ticket holders with passes for that lot.
- ADA drop-off and pick-up is on Central Ave between West Pete Rose Way and Mehring Way, giving direct access to the West Gate.
- The second ADA drop-off is at the corner of Race St and Freedom Way, just outside E + O Kitchen, giving direct access to the East Gate.
Getting There
Paycor Stadium is served by the same free Cincinnati streetcar that reaches Great American Ball Park two blocks away (18 stops, every 12 to 15 minutes, no fare) plus Metro buses at $2.20 and a $1 shuttle across the river from Northern Kentucky. Driving gets Waze links per lot rather than a route.
- Driving
- The stadium publishes no route in, giving Waze links for individual parking lots and garages instead. Rideshare drop-off is on 2nd Street between Vine and Walnut.
- Public Transit
- The Cincinnati streetcar connects downtown, Over-the-Rhine and The Banks with 18 stops along its route, running roughly every 12 to 15 minutes, free to ride and fully accessible. Cincinnati Metro buses serve the stadium from across Hamilton County at $2.20 each way, and TANK runs the Southbank Shuttle from the Covington and Newport riverfronts on game days for $1.
- Rideshare
- Rideshare drop-off before the game and pickup after it are both on the north curb of 2nd Street, between Vine Street and Walnut Street. Rideshare is limited to that zone from four hours before the game until two hours after it.
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How We Checked This Page
Every section below names the source it was read from and the day it was read. Where we could not reach a published figure, the page says so rather than presenting an estimate as a checked fact.
- Parking guidance
Official Bengals parking and directions page, read 2026-08-14: the garage and surface-lot rosters with their different opening times, the Bengals Parking Pass requirement on the adjacent facilities, accessible spaces being tied to season-ticket lot passes, the two ADA drop-off points and the gates they serve, the downtown and Northern Kentucky alternatives, and the official parking map. No prices, no closing times, no RV or bus policy and no road closures are published.
- Getting there
Paycor Stadium parking and directions page on bengals.com
- Transit
Cincinnati Metro Fares & Passes gives a local daily fare cap of $4.40, exactly twice the $2.20 one-way local fare that Paycor Stadium's own Parking and Directions page states ("Fare is only $2.20 each way"). The operator's page publishes the cap rather than the single fare, so both are cited. Walking entries carry no transit fare by definition
- Venue policies
Cincinnati Bengals fan guide plus dedicated Paycor Stadium bag-policy and cashless-payment pages reviewed for visitor policies.
Not yet checked against a published source
These figures are estimates. Most venues no longer publish the numbers behind them (concession and ticket pricing moved to dynamic marketplaces), so we hold them as estimates rather than dating them as verified.
- Parking prices: Bengals.com + visitcincy.com + cincinnatistadium.net