UPDATED Kilby Block Party Parking for 2026: Parking has gotten no better near the fairgrounds. But the convenience of Kilby’s UTA options are unmatched. Read on for Day Of, pre-paid and 100% free options to get in and out of the 2026 festival!
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Kilby Block Party parking: You have options
Have you been to the Utah State Fairpark? Possibly not, you’re an urbane city-dweller with limited interest in competitive lamb grooming. But you have multiple options getting in and out. Here is what to do.
First I should note, the standard one-day parking passes from the Kilby Block Party ticket service are expensive and pretty yuck. Think dudes in orange vests waving you into a pricey lot still a decent hike from the walk-in entrance. The dirt lot at 1200 West on the opposite side of North Temple looks like an artillery-pocked No Man’s Land in devastated Eastern Ukraine. Until sold out, these $40 passes are an add-on to your one-day GA ticket while checking out.
However if the sheer convenience of parking closer to the fairgrounds entrance outweighs other considerations, you can buy three days of “premium” parking in the paved lot just north of the fairgrounds along 1000 West. But the cost? It is $150 for the full three-day event, WHICH IS MORE THAN HALF of the cost of general admission tickets to actually hear music at the Kilby Block Party. If that pencils out, you buy the three days of premium parking here.
Lots nearby for Kilby Block Party parking
My experience with random lots near the fairgrounds — for events much less in-demand than the Kilby Block Party — is $30 or $40 per event. Real estate is pretty limited and they know the market is nearly cornered. You’re also walking a block or two or five. And you’re traversing the hellscape that is west North Temple Street at midnight.
Kilby delivers with free UTA passes!
Every Kilby wristband comes with courtesy transportation on UTA. That means you could park in a Trax Park & Ride lot as far north as Pleasant View or a Frontrunner station in Provo and commute to the Fairgrounds without paying a dime. If you live or work downtown, you can park near a dozen or more stops and get to the festival in ten minutes.
From the Fairgrounds Trax station it’s a solid 10-12 minute walk — but a safe walk — into the main entrance. Full disclosure, though. At night when the festivities are done … the wait to board a shoulder-to-shoulder Trax train can be 30 minutes plus. It can be a time of comaraderie but also ridiculously over-packed trains to get home.
Pro tip: Many times, I have taken a **westbound** train to the Power Station to exit and then re-board a virtually-empty train headed back east to the Fairpark stop. With a perfectly-timed westbound train this can easily save you 15 or 20 minutes. If you’re forced to wait to get that train to the Power Station and then wait again to get back to Fairpark it probably saves you zero time. But at least you get a seat.
I’m not sure why I’m sharing this tactic, other than a few dozen other people do the same thing. So it’s not like I’m the first person in history to think of it.
Information on Trax Park & Ride lots and Frontrunner routes are here. Good luck, and never walk long distances on west South Temple at night!