Overheight Parking

$27/day gets you YYC’s on-airport Overheight Parking

This surface lot sits right next to the Calgary terminal, priced at $10 hourly, $27 daily, or $135 for the first week (plus tax). It’s the official option for trucks, tall vans, and roof‑box SUVs that can’t clear the P1/P2 parkade height limits but still want to stay on airport property. You park at ground level, walk to the Domestic or International terminal in a few minutes, and skip shuttles altogether.

YYC treats Overheight Parking as its own category with distinct rates: $27/day vs about $16/day in the economy lot. That gap adds up quickly on longer trips. If you’re leaving the truck for seven days, you’re at $135 here before tax instead of roughly $112 in economy, and more again if you compare to off‑airport lots. You’re paying mainly for height clearance plus the terminal‑side location.

Regulars in Alberta truck forums often push friends toward off‑airport surface lots once a stay runs past three or four days, because Overheight’s weekly bill can easily pass $150 after tax. They still use this lot for short work trips, quick weekend runs to Toronto or Vancouver, or for pickups and drop‑offs that go over the standard 30–60 minutes. The trade: higher daily rate, but zero time wasted waiting on a shuttle loop.

Tip: if your tall vehicle can clear the posted height bar for P1 or P2, skip Overheight and pay the cheaper parkade or economy pricing; if it doesn’t, treat this lot as the premium “problem‑solver” and keep stays to 3 days or less to keep costs sane.