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Parking

We offer both free parking and valet services at our hospitals. Parking is not allowed in the hospital drop-off areas.

Valet parking

Drop off your car and our valets will park it for you.

Free parking

Parking is free for patients and their visitors with validation.

Valet parking

Emergency Room, Trauma Center and Pediatric Emergency Room

  • Valet parking is complimentary for emergency room patients and visitors.
  • Emergency room valet parking is available 24 hours a day.
  • Valet check-in is located at the emergency entrances.
  • You must have your parking ticket validated at the checkout area, nurses’ station or other designated area and present it to the valet attendant.

Non-emergency hospital visits

  • Valet parking is $3 with validation and $13 without validation.
  • It's available Monday through Friday from 5:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. at UF Health Shands Hospital, UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital and the UF Health Heart & Vascular Hospital.
  • On weekends and holidays, valet parking is available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at UF Health Shands Hospital, UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital and the UF Health Heart & Vascular and Neuromedicine hospitals.
  • Valet check-in is located at the main entrances (front circle).
  • Patients and visitors must ask to have their parking validated at the checkout area, nurses' station, information desks or other designated area and present it to the valet attendant.

UF Health McGurn Medical Plaza

  • For emergencies, valet parking is complimentary with validation and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • Valet parking is $3 with validation and $13 without validation.
  • Parking is complimentary for disabled.
  • It's available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
  • It's closed on holidays.

UF Health Springhill Building 1 & 2

  • For emergencies, valet parking is complimentary with validation and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • Valet parking is $3 with validation and $13 without validation.
  • Parking is complimentary for disabled.
  • It's available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
  • It's closed on holidays.

UF Health Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute

  • For emergencies, valet parking is complimentary with validation and is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • Valet parking is $3 with validation and $13 without validation.
  • Parking is complimentary for disabled.
  • It's available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
  • It's closed on holidays.

Free parking

Parking is free for patients and their visitors with validation. You can have your parking validated by bringing your parking ticket to the checkout area, a nurses’ station or other designated area when arriving at your location of service.

Patients and their visitors can choose to self-park at the following garages:

  • UF Health Campus East Parking Garage on Newell Drive
    This parking is complimentary with validation or $20 without validation
  • UF Health garage off 13th Street
    Parking does not need to be validated
  • UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital Patient and Visitor Surface lot on the Circle of Hope Drive
    Parking in marked valet areas is prohibited
  • UF Health Campus West Parking Garage
    This parking is complimentary with validation or $20 without validation
    Complimentary disabled parking next to the College of Dentistry west entrance

UF Health McGurn Medical Plaza

  • Ideal parking is Garage 3 first floor west entrance
  • Available and complimentary with validation or $20 without validation

Extended stay

If your care requires you to stay several days, please visit one of the information centers and ask for a long-term parking permit for the commuter lot during your extended stay.

Oversized vehicles

If planning ahead, for instructions of where to park you can call the valet leadership/after hours phone at (352) 316-1520.

On the day of arrival, if you arrive at a valet podium, they can provide a map and instructions of where to park oversized vehicles.

Maps and Directions

Directions to our hospitals and interior maps to find your way in our hospitals.

Shuttles and Buses

UF Health provides a courtesy shuttle to parking and medical locations on our Gainesville campus.