General Parking Information

The HCMC Parking Ramp serves employees, patients, and visitors. The entrances to the HCMC Parking Ramp are at 615 S. 6th Street and 614 S. 7th Street (between Park and Portland Aves). A skyway leads directly to the Purple Building and continues through all buildings on campus.

Discounted parking for patients available in the HCMC ramp
Several discounted parking options are available for patients and their visitors in the HCMC Parking Ramp at the corner of 6th Street and Park Avenue. If you are a clinic patient, inpatient, or visitor of a patient, you can have your parking tickets stamped in your clinic or unit to receive the discount of $2-3, depending on how long you park in the ramp.

HCMC parking ramp general public rates
(effective April 2009)

Time
Rate
0 - 20 minutes
No charge
20 minutes to 1 hour
$2.00
1 - 2 hours
$4.00
2 - 3 hours
$6.00
3 - 4 hours
$7.00
4 - 12 hours
$8.00
12 - 24 hours
$10.00

The HCMC Parking Ramp offers additional discounts for Same Day Surgery patients and immediate family and Birth Center patients and their birth partners. Validate your ticket in the Same Day Surgery Center or Birth Center to receive the special $4 rate.

Parking coupons are also now available for purchase by visitors who will be frequently visiting patients who are here for an extended stay. The coupons are for five days, with multiple exits in a 24-hour period.

The coupons can be purchased in the Parking Office in the ramp. Park near the exit and see the attendant to purchase coupons.


Parking spaces have been reserved exclusively for patients between the second and third floors in the HCMC Parking Ramp. Handicapped-accessible parking is located on the 6th level of the ramp near the elevators.

Patient and visitor discounted rates are not available in the ramp marked "Hospital Ramp" that serves the Parkside Professional Building, or in any of the local surface parking lots.

Other area parking info:

Area parking meters are also available for $1 per hour. They are in effect from 8 a.m.-10 p.m. every day of the week, and take quarters or pre-paid cards only. Pre-paid cards are available for purchase from a machine in the Red Building lobby, 730 S. 8th Street.

Please note: Parking during Metrodome events is often hard to find in the immediate area. Click here for more nearby parking ramp/lot options (pdf).

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