2025 Move-In Parking Lot Closures, Traffic Routes
Baylor students, faculty, staff and volunteers greet incoming students during Move2BU and ensure their belongings are unloaded and delivered to the student's residence hall room while they go through the check-in process. (Matthew Minard/Baylor University)
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In preparation for Move-In 2025 on Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 20-21, Baylor University will CLOSE some campus parking lots and interior streets beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 19, at 6 p.m. ALL OF CAMPUS will be impacted. Expect delays, detours and disruptions to normal parking/traffic flow.
OVERVIEW: HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- Parking Lots will be closed at 6 PM Tuesday, Aug. 19 and 6 PM Wednesday, Aug. 20.
- All cars that have not been moved by 6 p.m. will be towed to the Ferrell Center.
- This includes Departmental vehicles.
- It is the owner’s responsibility to confirm any perceived exemption/exception from towing by contacting parking@baylor.edu.
- Traffic patterns will be changed at 8 AM Wednesday, Aug. 20 and 8 AM Thursday, Aug. 21.
Parking Lot Closures for Tuesday, Aug. 19 – Wednesday, Aug. 20
The following parking lots/slots will close at 6 p.m. Tuesday:
- Lot 8, 9: Kokernot Hall (from the drive behind Brooks Flats through to Dutton Avenue)
- Lot 16: Speight Avenue between 7th and 8th streets (both sides)
- Lot 21: Bookstore Garage parking area (1st ground level only)
- Lot 24: (Street Parking) M.P. Daniel between 5th and 7th streets – flows one way.
- Lot 33: Hurd Welcome Center service parking lot
- Lot 34: Hurd Welcome Center parking lot
- Lot 38: Front Drive of North Russell Hall
- Lot 39: Front Drive of South Russell Hall
- All street parking on 3rd, 4th and 7th streets
Parking Lot Closures for Wednesday, Aug. 20, and Thursday, Aug. 21
The parking lots/slots will close at 6 p.m. Wednesday:
- Lot 12: Front lot of Ruth Collins Hall
- Lot 20: Martin Hall parking lot
- Lot 21: 5th Street Bookstore Garage parking area (1st ground level only)
- Lot 24: (Street Parking) M.P. Daniel between 5th and 7th streets – flows one way.
- Lot 31: Penland Hall parking lot, near Dutton Avenue
- Lot 33: Hurd Welcome Center service parking lot
- Lot 34: Hurd Welcome Center parking lot
- Lot 39: Front Drive of South Russell Hall
- Lot 52: Wiethorn Undergraduate Center
- All street parking on 3rd, 4th and 7th streets
Move-In Traffic Pattern Changes
Baylor will redirect traffic patterns from 7:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, and Thursday, Aug. 21, to help facilitate the Move-In process. Faculty and staff should plan an alternate route to their destination on both days during the morning hours.
- All traffic on 5th, 4th and 3rd streets will flow FROM Speight Avenue TOWARD I-35.
- M.P. Daniel will flow from 5th to 8th street ONLY on both Wednesday and Thursday.
- Head-in parking on M.P. Daniel (next to SUB) is not available during Move-In.
- Those needing access to mailboxes in the SUB are urged to wait until after 1 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
- No left turns from 8th Street onto Speight Avenue, M.P. Daniel or Baylor Avenue either morning.
- No right turns from Dutton Avenue or the I-35 Frontage Road on 5th, 4th or 3rd streets.
- Traffic exiting from 5th Street Bookstore parking garage, 5th and 4th streets onto Dutton Avenue must go right towards University Parks Drive.
- University Parks Drive traffic cannot turn onto Dutton Avenue.
- Dutton Avenue traffic can only go right onto University Parks Drive towards the Ferrell Center.
More information about Move-In can be found at Campus Living & Learning website.