Admissions guests must follow our parking validation process.
Tour our new student center and Portland Commons residence hall.
Tour our first-year residence halls and D3 athletics facilities.
Join us for an information session or a one-on-one video chat.
Do you have questions, need accommodations, or want to cancel your registration?
Portland campus
Our McGoldrick Center for Career and Student Success and Portland Commons residence hall are brand-new additions to our bustling Portland, Maine campus.
Parking is available in the garage attached to the Abromson Community Education Center. The garage entrance is on Surrenden Street. We will validate your parking session.
Portland campus tours
All Portland campus tours depart from the Admissions Welcome Center, which is located on the first floor of the Abromson Community Education Center (room 111).
Our first-year student residence halls and NCAA Division III athletics facilities are located on our Gorham campus but will be discussed on this tour.
What to expect on your tour
- Our walking campus tours last approximately one hour.
- Dress appropriately for New England weather and wear comfortable walking shoes.
- Please leave pets at home. Only service animals are allowed on campus.
- Review our parking validation process before you arrive on campus.
- You and your guest(s) will be part of a tour group that will not exceed 20 people.
- Restrooms and water bottle refill stations are available and accessible.
- Questions or concerns? Contact us.
In the event of inclement weather, the University may close. Scheduled events and tours may be canceled as a result. Find out more.
Gorham campus
Our first-year student residence halls and NCAA Division III athletics facilities are located in Gorham, Maine, a charming New England village just 10 miles west of Portland.
Parking is available near the water tower, off Water Tower Road. We will validate your parking session.
Gorham campus tours
All Gorham campus tours depart from the Admissions Welcome Center, located on the first floor of Bailey Hall (room 100A). Our new student center is located on our Portland campus but will be discussed on this tour.
What to expect on your tour
- Our walking campus tours last approximately one hour.
- Dress appropriately for New England weather and wear comfortable walking shoes.
- Please leave pets at home. Only service animals are allowed on campus.
- Review our parking validation process before you arrive on campus.
- You and your guest(s) will be part of a tour group that will not exceed 20 people.
- Restrooms and water bottle refill stations are available and accessible.
- Questions or concerns? Contact us.
In the event of inclement weather, the University may close. Scheduled events and tours may be canceled as a result. Find out more.
Step-by-step parking validation via QR code or text-to-pay
NOTE: Parking on our Lewiston-Auburn campus is free.
If you can’t find a PAY HERE sign, we have QR codes you can scan at our Welcome Centers on both the Gorham and Portland campuses.
There is a sign at the entrance to each parking lot or garage, and smaller signs are mounted on poles.
If you don’t have a smartphone or a current University parking permit
- Use one of our walk-up paystations in the Portland campus parking garages or in 3 areas of the Gorham campus.
- If your phone can connect to the internet, use our text-to-pay option.
- Pay or or validate your parking session from a computer with internet access before you arrive on campus. Please note that we cannot guarantee a parking spot will be available when you arrive on campus
If you don’t have access to a computer
- Locate our staff in the basement of the Abromson Community Education Center (just inside the door from Parking Garage 1 on the Portland campus) during business hours to purchase a parking permit or pay for an individual parking session.
You can choose to scan the QR code or text the parking zone number to 559-922-2660. The zone number is different for each parking lot or garage.
You’ll receive a new text message from 509-260-8793 with a link. Open the link and the rest of the process is the same as if you had scanned the QR code.
In this example, the Zone number is 50110, so you would text 50110 to 559-922-2660.
License plate: Include dashes but don’t include spaces, dots, hearts, stars, or other special characters.
Phone number: Enter your full, 10-digit mobile phone number (include the area code).
If you aren't sure how long you'll be on campus, we recommend that you err on the side of too much time for your parking session. If you plan to park for more than 5 hours, choose the day rate option.
Your paid or validated parking session doesn’t carry over to another USM campus.
If you visit both our Portland and Gorham campuses in one day, you will need to start a new paid or validated parking session for each campus.
For example: If you tour our Gorham campus in the morning and then our Portland campus after lunch, you’ll need to start a new paid or validated parking session for each campus tour. (Or vice versa.)
NOTE: Parking on our Lewiston-Auburn campus is free.
Look for an email from us with the subject line, “Your parking session is on us,” which should arrive the day before the event you registered to attend.
Open the email to get our parking validation code, which allows you to park for up to a full day (4:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.) per campus at no cost. You can use the code on both our Portland and Gorham campuses on the same day.
Enter the validation or promo code you were given into the Validation Code field and tap Apply.
If you didn’t receive the email, we’ll give you the validation code when you arrive at our Welcome Center. You can wait to complete your transaction until you get the code from us but you must start your parking session within our grace period to avoid any fines.
If you already paid, your card won’t be charged until 30 minutes after you leave campus. You can revisit an open parking session (before you leave campus) from the text message and/or email confirmation you received and add the validation code to cover the cost so your card won’t be charged.
NOTE: Parking on our Lewiston-Auburn campus is free.
Our privacy policy and additional parking-related information appear below the Start Parking button.
Make sure to start your session within our grace period to avoid getting fined.
You'll receive a text message confirmation with your parking session details.
NOTE: You cannot extend a validated parking session beyond its allotted time or you will be fined. For any additional time parked on campus, you must start a new parking session and pay our standard hourly rates.
Where to park on campus
Online event
We’ll send you a webinar or meeting link 24 hours before your event.
Do you have questions, need accommodations, or want to cancel your registration?
All our online events are hosted via Zoom. Connect via PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, or Android device using the link or meeting ID and passcode we’ll send you the day before your event.
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