Short Term Public Parking

First 15 minutes here are free, right at T1’s front door.

Short Term Public Parking sits directly in front of Juneau’s T1 terminal, about a 1-minute walk from your car to the check-in counters. This is true on-site, cross-the-sidewalk parking, not a shuttle situation. If you’re just grabbing someone or walking them in, it’s the closest legal place to stop without dealing with curbside enforcement.

Pricing is set up to favor quick in-and-out. The first 15 minutes cost $0, then it jumps to $3 for 16–60 minutes, and $2 for each additional hour after that. The daily max is $49, so leaving a car here beyond a couple of hours starts to feel like hotel-valet money. For anything like a full workday or an overnight trip, long-term parking pencils out better.

The lot uses ticket-on-entry and pay-on-exit. Gates accept tap-to-pay cards right in your lane, or you can pay at the kiosk inside the terminal across from the Alaska Airlines ticket counter if you still use cash. That kiosk placement means you can pay on the way out of baggage claim, then roll straight to your car and pull through the gate without fumbling for a wallet in the lane.

Locals treat this more like a timed pickup zone than true parking. City guidance explicitly bans waiting at the terminal curb and points drivers either to the cell-phone lot or this short-term lot, with that 15-minute free window as the carrot. Regulars often check the inbound status for Alaska flights, aim to hit the lot right after actual landing, and get in and out before the clock dings them for the $3 first hour.

Tip: If you’re not 99% sure you’ll be gone in under an hour, move straight to long-term; once you creep past a couple of hours here, the $49 daily cap shows up faster than you think.