Highmark Stadium Parking & Directions
Buffalo Bills · Orchard Park, NY
Know Before You Go
- Parking payments
Cash is not accepted at Highmark Stadium parking locations; use a valid debit or credit card, supported mobile wallet, or mobile parking permit.
- Cheapest lot
- $25
- Lots listed
- 9
- Closest
- Adjacent to stadium
Highmark Stadium's 2026 parking uses named, color-coded lots in place of the former numbered scheme. General-lot passes must be purchased before game day; accessible parking is the exception for event-day sales. A pass fixes which lot you may enter, and staff direct each vehicle to a space there.
Road Closures on Game Day
- Abbott Road closes to all vehicle traffic six hours before kickoff, between Bills Drive and the NFTA Transportation Hub.
- Big Tree Road (Route 20A) closes to westbound traffic after the game only, from Fieldhouse Drive to Route 219, and to eastbound traffic after the game only.
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.
Official stadium parking passes are $150+ due to construction shortages. Park in a private lot in the surrounding Orchard Park neighborhood - locals charge $5-25 and it's a short walk.
If at all possible I always recommend driving. Ubering to the game is usually okay but getting one after the game can be a nightmare. People routinely wait hours for Ubers after the game.
Don't pay stadium parking unless you brought tailgating gear like a grill. Otherwise the neighborhood private lots are the way to go - you'll save $100+.
Lots open four hours before kickoff and close two hours after the final whistle.
Buy your pass in advance; event-day sales are limited to accessible parking.
RV entry is the day before the game only, between 8:00 AM and 10:00 PM.
Check which road your lot sits off before you leave.
Bring a card for campus parking, concessions and retail.
Abbott Road closes between Bills Drive and the NFTA Transportation Hub six hours before kickoff; plan your approach around the closure.
Entry is by lot: Blue from Big Tree Road approaching from the east, Bronze from Southwestern Boulevard approaching from the west.
Where to Park
Platinum
$50Adjacent to stadiumAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Southwestern Boulevard from the west, then turn right on Platinum Drive.
- Buy a Platinum parking pass in advance.
Fans reported 1 price
- $50
Gold
$50Adjacent to stadiumAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Big Tree Road from the west, then turn left on Gold Drive.
- A Gold pass must be purchased before game day.
Bronze
$450.2 milesAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Southwestern Boulevard from the west, then turn right on Bronze Drive.
- Bronze parking requires advance purchase.
Fans reported 1 price
- $63
Green
$400.3 milesAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Big Tree Road from the east, then turn right on Fieldhouse Drive.
Green Lot is the largest outer official lot and a center of stadium tailgating.
- Arrange your Green parking pass before arrival.
- Popular for tailgating
Fans reported 1 price
- $40
Gray
$400.3 milesAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Abbott Road from the south, then turn left on Gray Drive. Note that Abbott Road closes north of here six hours before kickoff, so come at it from the south.
- Gray parking is sold before game day.
Orange
$400.4 milesAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Southwestern Boulevard from the east, then turn right on Orange Drive.
Orange is a calmer perimeter option and is usually the last official lot to sell out.
- Buy an Orange pass ahead of the game.
- Longest walk of the official lots
Fans reported 1 price
- $150
Blue
$400.3 milesAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Big Tree Road from the east, then turn right on Fieldhouse Drive.
- Purchase a Blue lot pass ahead of game day.
White
$400.4 milesAdvance purchase onlyEstimated price
Approach via Southwestern Boulevard from the east, then turn right on Orange Drive.
- The White lot requires an advance parking pass.
Abbott Road Private Lots
$250.3-1.0 milesCheapest
Reach these from the south end of Abbott Road. The stretch between Bills Drive and the NFTA Transportation Hub shuts to traffic six hours before kickoff, so arrive early or approach from below the closure.
Hammer Lot on Abbott Road remains a private tailgating option after the stadium move.
Or Skip the Car
- NFTA Game Day Shuttle (from downtown) · $5 · Special game-day bus service from downtown Buffalo to the stadium
Parking Rules
What the pass covers, what gets turned away, and the lots that run on their own rules.
Your Pass
- A pass is valid only for the lot printed on it, and cannot be used to park in a different lot.
- Spaces are not pre-assigned. You cannot choose your own spot; parking staff direct you to a space.
- One space per vehicle. One car, one space.
- No refunds are given for lost, stolen or unused passes.
- Event-day parking sales are limited to accessible parking only. Everything else is advance purchase.
- The stadium is entirely cashless: parking, concessions and retail all require a card.
Not Allowed In
- Box trucks are not permitted.
- No vehicle may enter with anything in tow: grills, trailers and the like.
- Sprinter vans of any size are sent to the Limo Lot and need a pass bought in advance.
Accessible Parking
Blue ADA and White ADA are the designated accessible lots, and the only parking still sold on event day. Spaces are first come, first served, and payment is cashless and taken on arrival. The Bills publish no rate for these lots either.
- First come, first served. No advance permits are sold for these lots.
- A state- or town-issued disability parking placard is required. Vehicles parked in accessible spaces without one are subject to towing and fines.
- Payment is cashless and taken on arrival.
- Golf-cart transport runs between the accessible lots and the stadium gates for fans who need it.
Game-day help: 716-312-8933
RV Parking
RVs park in a dedicated lot and have to arrive the day before. There is no game-day entry at all. These are the tightest rules in the whole parking operation, and the arrival window is the one most likely to catch someone out.
- Entry opens at 8:00 AM the day before a home game and closes at 10:00 PM that night. There is no game-day entry for RVs.
- Vehicles may not exit and re-enter the lot on game days.
- RVs may not leave on game day until two hours after the game ends, and every RV must be out by 2:00 PM the following day.
- No parking or lining up early along Southwestern Boulevard.
- Parking staff position vehicles to fit the lot; spacing is required side to side and nose to tail.
- No power and no septic service in the lot.
- Fire lanes, marked with yellow diagonal lines, must stay clear at all times.
- No golf carts, skateboards, bikes or drones. Pets must be leashed.
- Quiet hours begin at 10:00 PM.
Bus & Limo Parking
Buses, limos and Sprinter vans park in a dedicated lot on permits bought in advance through the Bills ticket office.
- Permits must be bought in advance through the Buffalo Bills ticket office.
- No tailgating or loitering beside or around parked buses.
- Buses and limos may not leave on game day until one hour after the game ends.
- Sprinter vans of any size park here and need an advance pass.
Getting There
Highmark Stadium publishes its driving guidance entirely by lot: which road you approach on depends on which lot you hold, and the stadium closes roads around itself on game days rather than routing you through them. Abbott Road shuts six hours before kickoff, which is earlier than most fans expect.
- Driving
- Approach is published per lot rather than as one route: the Blue Lot is entered from Big Tree Road from the east, the Bronze Lot from Southwestern Boulevard from the west, and each other lot has its own designated entry. Abbott Road closes to all vehicle traffic six hours before kickoff between Bills Drive and the NFTA Transportation Hub, and Big Tree Road (Route 20A) has postgame closures in specific directions. Check the ingress and egress maps for the lot you hold.
- Public Transit
- The NFTA Game Day Express buses run from various points throughout Western New York to the NFTA Transit Center, across from Family Circle on Abbott Road, and the Bills' A to Z guide puts pickup and drop-off at that Transit Center, near Abbott and Southwestern. It is an express service that stops only at designated transit centers, riders stay on the bus until it reaches the designated stop, and service is limited, so the guide says to arrive 10 to 15 minutes before the scheduled departure. If the game is extended, the guide says the first buses leave the stadium about 30 minutes after the end of the game. Routes, fares, pickup locations and timings are on the NFTA's Game Day Express page.
- Rideshare
- The designated rideshare zone is at the eastern end of the ECC South Campus. For pickup after the game, leave through Entry 3 and then Gate B and cross the ECC Campus to the easternmost lot.
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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
Buffalo Bills Highmark Stadium Parking page, read 2026-09-04, for the lot names, the advance-purchase rule and the accessible-lot terms; it publishes no rate for any lot. Rise over the old stadium from the Buffalo News (headline: rates up by 50%); 2026 resale floors of $75-$139 from ParkingAccess; the $132 average for stadium-owned lots from the Action Network study as reported by Buffalo Toronto Public Media on 2026-08-18, which also reported season parking passes sold out; the private-lot floor from Yellow Brick's own page ($70 a game, $560 a season).
- Getting there
Highmark Stadium A to Z guide (NFTA Game Day Express, Parking and Transportation and Rideshare entries) and parking page on buffalobills.com
- Transit
NFTA Metro Game Day Express: "$5 per person, for a one-way trip". Cash (exact change) or the Token Transit app; MetGo and Metro passes are not accepted. The stored $10 was the round trip. Driving entries carry no transit fare by definition
- Venue policies
Current Buffalo Bills pages for new Highmark Stadium accessibility, gate entry, game day, ticket policies, and mobile ticketing reviewed.
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: Never checked against a published rate: the Bills publish none. Every pass is sold in advance at a per-game price, and the stored figures are pre-season estimates from third-party guides that sit below what the old stadium charged in 2025. The three official-lot categories are flagged provisional; the record is data/nfl/_price-review/bills.md, 2026-09-04. The earlier reference-table stamp claimed a check against a page that publishes no figure.