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Apr 22

Parking, traffic, and transit information for the 2025 Blue-White Weekend

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Football will host the annual Blue-White Game at 2 p.m., Saturday, April 26 at Beaver Stadium. Gates will open at 12:30 p.m., and fans are encouraged to arrive early.

Blue-White Apparel and Equipment Sale

Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics will host the Blue-White Apparel and Equipment sale at Pegula Ice Arena from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

Parking will be available at the East Deck. If parked for less than two hours, the fee will be $2 for the first hour and $1 for the second hour. If parked for more than two hours, a $20 event rate will apply.

Blue-White Game Parking

Football parking areas near Beaver Stadium (between Bigler Road and Mount Nittany Medical Center) are managed by Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics and require a football permit. Lots will open at 8 a.m. For more information, visit gopsusports.com, call 1-800-NITTANY, or email [email protected].

Additional on-campus parking for the Blue-White Game will be available through Penn State Transportation Services at the following locations:

East, HUB, Nittany, and West decks:

  • $20 event rate for two or more hours of parking ($2 for first hour, $1 for second hour)
  • Payable by credit card before exiting at pay-on-foot stations

Eisenhower Deck:

  • $20
  • Payable through HONK (zone PSUYF)

Orange A Katz Lot: 

  • $20 
  • Payable by credit card at pay-on-foot stations or through HONK (zone information will be provided at the lot)

Tailgating is strictly prohibited at campus parking decks.

Weekend Visitor Parking

Fans planning to arrive before Saturday must park at the East, HUB, Nittany, or West parking decks. Standard hourly rates apply for parking prior to Saturday.

Game day parking closures/faculty, staff, and student parking access

The following campus parking lots will close at midnight Friday night in advance of Saturday's Blue-White game:

  • Commuter lots (Jordan East, Stadium West, Porter North, Porter South)
  • Orange L (all sections)
  • Yellow H (all sections)
  • Yellow M
  • Yellow V
  • Orange A OPP (east and west)
  • Orange H (all sections north of Hastings Road)
  • Orange O (ICA Service Center/Meats Lab)
  • Silver G
  • Silver J (all sections)

In addition to these areas, the east half of Lot Orange U located just east of USB I and II will also be reserved beginning at midnight Friday night.

All vehicles, including department vehicles, must be removed from these areas no later than midnight Friday night. Access to these areas will reopen after outbound football traffic has ended.

During Penn State's Blue-White game, faculty/staff parking permits are honored at all faculty/staff parking lots located west of Bigler Road, and student parking permits are honored at all areas located west of Bigler Road that normally allow student parking on weekends (see the lots highlighted in yellow with the E/W symbol on the student parking interactive map).

For a more convenient exit from campus after the football game and to provide greater capacity for visitors at the parking decks, faculty/staff and student permit holders are encouraged to use surface parking areas instead of parking decks on Saturday.

Email [email protected] or call 814-865-1436 for more information related to on-campus parking managed by Penn State Transportation Services.

Traffic Restrictions

Curtin Road will be closed between University Drive and Porter Road, and Porter Road will be closed between Curtin Road and Park Avenue all day Saturday.

Transit Service Adjustments

CATA's Blue Loop and Red Link service will operate during the Blue-White game, but with the following adjustments to service:

Blue Loop – buses will turn left on University Drive from Curtin Road and turn right on Hastings Road where normal routing will resume.

Red Link – buses will turn right on University Drive from Curtin Road, turn right on Hastings Road, turn right on Bigler Road, and turn left on Curtin Road where normal routing will resume.

Visit catabus.com for more information on CATA campus and community transit service. Real-time bus information and arrival predictions are also available through the myStop and Penn State Go apps.

Paterno Family Beaver Stadium Run

The annual Paterno Family Beaver Stadium Run will be held on campus on Sunday, April 27. The event benefits Special Olympics Pennsylvania and includes a 5K run and a two-mile family fun walk. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. at Medlar Field, with the 5K run set to begin at 11 a.m. and the two-mile walk set to begin at 11:10 a.m.

Parking for the Beaver Stadium Run will be available at no charge at the Jordan East and Stadium West parking areas.

The 5K run will begin at Curtin Road in front of Beaver Stadium and continue west across the entire length of Curtin Road. Runners will then proceed south on Burrowes Road before turning east on Pollock Road, where they will continue until reaching Bigler Road. At Bigler Road, runners will travel north to Curtin Road, at which point they will head east toward the finish line inside Beaver Stadium.

The two-mile fun walk will follow a similar route but will have participants travel south on Shortlidge Road to reach Pollock Road, from which point the course will mirror the three-mile run/walk to the finish at Beaver Stadium.

Maps of the two courses can be found on the Beaver Stadium Run website:

https://specialolympicspa.org/bsr-event-information

Drivers traveling across campus on Sunday morning should anticipate delays as participants proceed through their respective courses and are urged to use caution.

For more information on the Beaver Stadium Run, please contact Special Olympics Pennsylvania by email at [email protected]. For questions regarding traffic and transit impacts, please contact the Transportation Services Office at 814-865-1436 or by email at [email protected].