Long-Term Parking

$10 per day gets you a long stay 0.5 miles from TYS

Long-Term Parking at McGhee Tyson Airport runs $10.00 per day or $60.00 per week, so it pencils out for trips longer than three days. It sits about 0.5 miles from the Main Terminal, set up specifically for long stays instead of quick in-and-out parking.

The lot is served by a shuttle that runs every 15 minutes during regular hours, with some reports noting up to 30-minute gaps late at night or very early. Figure the ride plus loading time adds about 10–15 minutes to your departure schedule before you hit the Main Terminal doors.

This is true long-stay parking, not hourly: the pricing is daily and weekly only, with no short-term half-hour rates. If you’re gone six nights or more, the $60 weekly cap usually beats paying day-by-day. For very short trips under 24 hours, the Long-Term lot still charges the full $10.00 daily rate.

There’s no mention of reserved spaces or premium rows here, just standard long-term spots spread across the 0.5 mile distance from the Main Terminal. Figure an extra 5 minutes to find a space and note your row, especially before early bank departures around 5–7 a.m.

Practical tip: build in an extra 30 minutes before your airline’s check-in cutoff to cover parking, waiting on a shuttle cycle that might hit the full 30-minute gap, and the short ride to the Main Terminal.