For those of you who will be driving to the tournament on Friday/Saturday/Sunday, we want to give you some information and recommendations for parking. There is a garage across the street (Town Square Garage #61 at 801 Ellsworth Drive). On Friday and Saturday, the rate there is $1.25 per hour (on Sunday parking there is FREE). This cost will be heavily subsidized for the April 2025 tournament through a grant from Krauss Dansby Wealth Partners. We HIGHLY recommend that sometime prior to the tournament, you download one of the two available parking apps, install it on your phone and enter your car information and payment methods. The two apps are "ParkMobile" and "Passport Parking". Using one of these two apps to pay for parking, rather than using the kiosk, will be much faster and more efficient. Which one you want to use is up to you. If you have installed either of these already and have it on your phone, you can use it as you usually do when you go to the sectional.

When you buy your entry for the event you are playing in on Friday or Saturday, there will be someone near where that session's entries are being sold who will determine that you have paid for parking that day using one of the apps. They will then give you a voucher good for a discount off your entry fee which will be processed by the director selling entries. If you are playing in both sessions that day you can get a discount on parking for each session as long as proof of payment for parking is shown.

Here are links to the websites for the garage and the two parking apps if you want to find out more about them:

Town Square Garage (Garage 61) | Downtown Silver Spring

ParkMobile

Passport Parking

and here are a couple of helpful videos for those apps:

ParkMobile Youtube link

Passport Parking Youtube link

If you are unable to use one of the parking apps, you can pay through the garage's "Pay By Plate" system at one of their kiosks, but this method can be slow, especially if many people want to use the kiosk at the same time. This is why we strongly prefer that you use one of the parking apps. If you do use the kiosk, keep the receipt from it to present when buying an entry as proof of parking garage use.

If you have questions about the parking garage and/or the parking apps, you can contact Brad Theurer (email: batheurer256@gmail.com, home phone: 301-527-8819, cell phone: 301-325-8656).