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The following options are available for your campus visitors.

For event parking, view the Event Parking page. For Vendors and Contractors, view Vendor/Construction Parking.

Permit Machine / Pay-By-Phone

Provide the following information to your visitor to help navigate and park on campus.

A Sac State parking permit is required to be displayed while parked on campus. To purchase a $7 daily (or $4 two-hour) parking permit:

  • Sign up for a PayByPhone account and download the app. When you arrive on campus, enter location number "5115" into the app to pay your parking fee.
  • When you arrive on campus, pay with cash or credit at any permit machine located in all student parking lots/structures; view the campus map for locations.

Your parking permit is valid in student parking spaces. The closest parking to the (event location) is (nearest student parking lot/structure). Please view our campus map for parking lot locations. A printable campus map is also available.

Daily 'Scratcher' Permits

Visit the UTAPS office to purchase daily ‘scratcher’ permits in advance using cash, check, credit card or department purchase form (expenditure transfer). These are one-day use permits that may be purchased in bulk and never expire. Daily scratchers have the following distribution options:

  • Hand out; most departments keep a small supply on hand for drop-in visitors.
  • Mail.
  • Information booth pickup; drop off the permits and a completed Daily Scratcher Drop-off form to an information booth attendant.

'Goldenrod' Permits (CMS Visitor Parking Requests)

Goldenrod permits must be requested using the Visitor Parking module in CMS. Request access to this module by submitting a CARS request for authorization as a “SAC_VPD_APPROVER” for your department. Then, read the Visitor Parking User Guide for instructions on how to submit a request. 

Goldenrod Permit Options

  • $3 Two-hour faculty/staff permit
  • $7 Daily faculty/staff permit
  • $12 1 week student permit
  • $24 2 week student permit
  • $36 3 week student permit
  • $48 4 week student permit
  • $15 1 week faculty/staff permit
  • $30 2 week faculty/staff permit
  • $45 3 week faculty/staff permit
  • $60 4 week faculty/staff permit

Goldenrod Permit Distribution Options

  • Instruct your visitor to pick up at Information Booth 1, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.
  • Instruct your visitor to pick up at Information Booth 2, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.
  • Instruct your visitor to pick up at the UTAPS office at Folsom Hall, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday through Friday.
  • Pickup the permit and distribute yourself (hand out, snail mail, etc.).


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