Parking Permits by Customer

Permits are sold online at uwm.edu/transportation/getpermits, unless noted otherwise as “Purchase at Office”. Most permits are prorated for the purchase date. There are no refunds on daily permits. Cancellation requests for other permits can be submitted online.

Permit holders can typically only park in areas listed in their parking permit.

However, UWM does allow “crisscrossing” permits during certain times. Any UWM Semester and Annual permit regardless of the facility allows the holder to park on any outdoor surface lot at UWM’s main campus during:

• Weekdays from 4 pm to 2 am
• Weekends from 5 am to 2 am.

Customers with the following permits are eligible:

• Main campus parking permits
• Cambridge Commons
• Kenilworth
• RiverView

U-PARK is ineligible.

Permit holders must obey other signage and instructions in the lot, such as for accessible parking spaces.

Cars parked on all UWM surface lots and most garages may not park overnight and any vehicles parked after 2 am and before 5 pm without permission may be ticketed/towed at owners expense. Certain garages allow overnight parking as long as the parker has purchased a residential permit. If a permit parker (without overnight parking) does need to park overnight, a request including the license plate number must be made in advance of the requested date to uwmpark@uwm.edu. Typically, customers with a commuter (non-residential) permit can have one night a month of overnight parking for free, but payment is required for additional nights. Customers must contact Transportation Services regardless.

Please note that the K-permit and/or all-access permit do not allow parking in Chancellor’s spaces, accessible spaces, spaces reserved for events/guests, or loading/drop-off areas (including the Lubar, Union, and Sandburg circle driveways). The All Access Permit also does not include access to Cambridge or Riverview garages. Check our signage page for more information.

Usually, no.

Cambridge Commons requires that a hangtag is displayed in your vehicle to park in the garage.

For other locations, UWM uses license plate recognition software to determine if a vehicle has a permit, and no stickers or hang tags are necessary.

To enter and exit the Union, NWQ, Pavilion, Lubar, and Kenilworth garages, simply hold your PantherCard up to the keypad in order for it to scan and raise the gate.