22 verified parking spots in The Gulch, Nashville: 6 validated and 16 paid. Nothing is listed until we've reviewed it, and locals help keep it current.
6 validated
16 paid
Validated parking
1201 Demonbreun Garage (SHED validates)
100 minutes free for SHED classes before 8am or after 4:30pm
ValidatedGarage validation (gym)1 local confirmed
SHED Group Fitness gives 100 minutes of free parking in the 1201 garage to people in classes before 8am or after 4:30pm. Pull a ticket at the gate and keep it, grab a validation slip from the front desk after class, then feed in your ticket and the slip on the way out. Noon classes don't get validated, and SHED's page says it's $3 an hour otherwise. You can enter from 12th Ave or Demonbreun. SHED's own page says so, undated. Read 10/14/26. We haven't been there in person. The pin is the building at 1201 Demonbreun.
Where 1201 garage, entrances on 12th Ave S and Demonbreun St
Validated at the host stand, but not the bottom lot by 12th Ave S
ValidatedRestaurant1 local confirmed
Adele's validates three places and refuses a fourth, and the fourth is the one people get caught in. Validated: the first two rows of angled parking directly in front of the building, the lot across the street at 1207 McGavock, and the garage behind at 1222 Demonbreun. Get it done at the host stand before you leave. Not validated: the bottom lot closest to 12th Ave S. Their own sign calls it out under an important notice, and adds that the lot isn't available for parking until 6pm Monday through Friday and that your car will be booted or ticketed if you don't register and pay. That lot is Metropolis-run and charges $11.99 for two hours if you end up there. Sign photographed on site 8/23/26. Still unconfirmed: how long the validation covers, and whether you have to dine to get it.
Where Front two rows of angled spaces at 1210 McGavock St, lot across the street at 1207 McGavock St, garage behind at 1222 Demonbreun St
Source: Adele's posted sign, photographed on site 8/23/26
Kayne Prime valet (Saint Añejo diners too)
Free valet for diners, from 4:30pm
ValidatedRestaurant valet
Free valet at Kayne Prime's front door from 4:30pm when you're eating there. M Street, the group that runs Kayne Prime, says diners at its other restaurants can use it too, and that includes Saint Añejo at 1120 McGavock. Their help page saying so was last updated in January 2023, so the terms may have changed since. Unknown: how long the valet covers and what time it closes. We haven't been there in person. Read 10/14/26. The pin is the restaurant, not the valet stand.
Where Valet stand at Kayne Prime, 1103 McGavock St
2 hours free for shop visitors who register, more at V Modern and solidcore
ValidatedRetail garage1 local confirmed
The garage at Modera Gulch, 820 Division St, has designated retail spaces. Modera's retail page says registered retail visitors get 2 hours free: scan one of the QR codes in the garage to register your car, then follow the signs to the retail spaces. There's a map on the Visit tab of Modera's retail site. V Modern Italian, on the ground floor, says it validates 3 hours in the same deck when spots are available, so ask when you check in. solidcore, at 810 Division St, says its garage entrance is in the Modera building behind the studio: scan the QR in the garage before you leave it, then scan the QR at the studio front desk to validate 1.5 hours. None of the pages say what you pay past the free time, which businesses count as retail, or whether a business's validation stacks with the 2 free hours. On a busy Gulch night the deck fills, so treat it as a bonus and not a plan. Modera's page was updated 1/14/26. All three pages read 11/3/26. We haven't been there in person. The pin is the building.
Small free lot, or a free hour in the gravel lot across the street plus one validated
ValidatedRestaurant1 local confirmed
Peg Leg Porker, at 903 Gleaves St on the edge of the Gulch, has a small lot of its own with no validation needed. The other option is the gravel lot across the street: scan the QR code when you pull in and the first hour is free. If you need a second hour, scan the QR code inside the restaurant to validate it. The restaurant told us that by phone on 11/4/26. It didn't say what you pay past two hours, so don't settle in for a long night. We haven't been there in person. The pin is the restaurant.
Where Small lot at the restaurant, plus the gravel lot across the street, 903 Gleaves St
Source: Peg Leg Porker told us by phone 11/4/26
Zaytinya (W Nashville valet)
Complimentary W hotel valet when you dine at Zaytinya
ValidatedHotel valet
Zaytinya is the restaurant inside the W Nashville at 300 12th Ave S in the Gulch. The restaurant told us by phone on 11/4/26 that parking is complimentary when you're dining: use the hotel's valet. It didn't say whether there's a time limit, so tell the valet you're eating at Zaytinya when you hand over the keys. This is for Zaytinya diners, not hotel guests or anyone parking for the rest of the Gulch. We haven't been there in person. The pin is the restaurant.
Where W Nashville hotel valet, 300 12th Ave S
Source: Zaytinya told us by phone 11/4/26
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Paid parking
109 12th Ave Lot
Adele's does NOT validate here, and you'll get booted before 6pm on weekdays
PaidPublic lot (Metropolis)
This is the bottom lot closest to 12th Ave S, and it's the one Adele's tells you not to use. Their sign says it plainly: Adele's does not validate parking in this lot. It also says the lot isn't available for parking until 6pm Monday through Friday, and that your car will be booted or ticketed if you don't register and pay. Adele's validates three other places instead. The first two rows of angled parking directly in front of the building, the lot across the street at 1207 McGavock, and the garage behind at 1222 Demonbreun. Get validated at the host stand. If you're parking here anyway, Metropolis runs it and the ladder read $11.99 for two hours, $16.99 for four, $26.10 for twelve, $54.38 for a day on 8/23/26, all-in with no free grace period. Four hours costs $5 more than two, but twelve only costs $9.11 more than four, so if you're past four, buy twelve. The service fee is the greater of $1.99 or 8.75%, which is higher than the Metropolis lot at Church & Platform at $1.50 or 7%. Same operator, different fee, less than a mile apart. Rates read off app.metropolis.io and the Adele's sign photographed on site, both 8/23/26.
Where 109 12th Ave S, at the edge of the Gulch
Source: Metropolis app checkout screen and Adele's posted sign, both captured on site 8/23/26
Craig's Nashville
Valet out front, or $2 an hour at the meters if you feed them
PaidRestaurant valet
Craig's runs a valet and the restaurant's own listings name it as the parking option. What they do not publish is the price. One diner reported paying $20 on a Saturday evening, which is a single unverified receipt but a useful gut check if you were expecting $10. The alternative is the meters. This block sits in Metro's paid zone, where street parking runs $2 an hour, and there is a fair amount of it on 9th and the side streets around Gleaves. A local who ate here told us on 8/22/26 that the street parking is the better deal but to watch your clock, because enforcement on these blocks is active and people are checking. That matches what we have seen elsewhere in the Gulch, where the paid zone runs late rather than going free after dinner starts. Craig's opens at 5pm most nights with weekend brunch from 10am, so an evening here will outlast a short meter session. Feed it or move it. Pin is the restaurant, not the valet stand.
Where 611 9th Ave S, valet at the restaurant plus metered street parking on 9th and the surrounding blocks
Source: Local confirmed
Crossroads at the Gulch Lot (PMC, 803 Division St)
Paid lot on Division St, price on the sign
PaidSurface lot (PMC)
A PMC lot at 803 Division St, open 24 hours. Pay by scanning the QR code on the PMC signs or by text, with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. PMC doesn't post the price online, so check the sign before you walk away. Monthly parking is sold separately. If you're eating at Cledis Burgers & Beer at 719 8th Ave S, park here: Cledis told us by phone on 11/4/26 that it validates 2 hours at the Crossroads garage, with signs inside telling you how, and that it has no parking of its own. PMC calls this a lot and Cledis calls it a garage, so look for the Crossroads at the Gulch signs on Division. PMC page read 10/14/26. We haven't been there in person. The pin is the lot.
The public lot across from the Cummins Station building. Nights and weekends (5pm to 4am) it's $12 for the first 3 hours and $20 max. Days (4am to 5pm) it climbs fast: $10 for 20 minutes, $14 for the hour, $24 for two hours, and $47 once you pass three and a half hours. Daily max $67, lost ticket $100. Some lots around the building are monthly tenant parking only, so check the sign. These rates come from the Nashville Downtown Partnership's directory, not the operator, and the page has no date. Read 10/14/26. We haven't been there in person. The pin was placed from the map, not on site.
Where Lot across from the Cummins Station building, 209 10th Ave S
The Downtown Partnership lists this in its public parking directory, but other listings describe it as valet for hotel guests, and no rate is published officially. Call the front desk before you count on it. If you have parked here recently, confirm it and we will tighten this one up.
Right in the middle of the Gulch under the Industrious building, so it is the shortest walk to 11th Ave. Register on the Metropolis app first and the first hour is free, which covers a coffee or a quick shopping run. Paid after that.
Premium Parking location P3707, a surface lot behind the Gulch Union building on McGavock. Premium published a weekday ladder when we checked on 8/13/26: $9 for two hours, $15 for four, $19.50 for six, $24 for eight, $32 for twenty-four. The page is headed Weekday and Premium does not publish a weekend rate for this lot, so do not assume the same numbers on a Saturday. Pay by plate through the Premium app or the CameraPay signs.
Closest garage to Five Daughters and the 12th Ave shops. Gulch Crossing and Infinity down the street post a free first hour. Whether ICON does is unsettled: sources disagree and we are re-checking in person, so read the sign at the entrance before you commit. Rates are posted on site and in the Metropolis app.
Register on the Metropolis app before you park and the first hour is free, then it goes paid. Clearance is 6 feet 10 inches, so a lifted truck or a van with a roof rack is not getting in. Tight but workable for a crew cab.
Luogo's own page says valet is $15 in its garage, with the entrance on 12th Ave S between Demonbreun and Laurel. It doesn't say how long that covers or whether you have to be eating there. Read 10/14/26. We haven't been there in person. The pin is the restaurant at 211 12th Ave S, not the garage entrance.
Where Garage entrance on 12th Ave S between Demonbreun St and Laurel St
On Pine Street behind the 11th Ave restaurants, so it fills up later than the Demonbreun garages. No rate is published anywhere official, so check the sign at the entrance before you commit.
A PMC lot at 630 Division St, open 24 hours. PMC says you can reserve ahead or pay on arrival from your phone, with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. PMC doesn't post the price online, so check the sign before you walk away. Read 10/14/26. We haven't been there in person. The pin is the lot.
Street meters start at $2/hr but climb to $5 after two hours
PaidStreet parking
The meters right outside Puttshack are Metro ParkSmart Zone 3, and the sign posts an escalating ladder: $2.00/hr for the first 2 hours, $5.00/hr for hours 3 and 4, $6.00/hr past 5 hours. Credit card transactions carry a convenience fee on top. Pay at the QR on the sign, or text TN1110 to 53242. That ladder is the thing to watch here. Puttshack runs to 11pm most nights and 1am on Friday and Saturday, and nobody plays four courses and eats in under two hours. Budget for the $5 tier, not the $2 one. Read the pole before you park. The sign stack at this corner has a No Parking arrow pointing one way and a Pay Parking arrow pointing the other, so the legal spaces are only in one direction from the post. Sign photographed on site 8/23/26. If you want a garage instead, the Metropolis lot at 109 12th Ave S is a short walk and runs $11.99 for two hours, though it is closed to parking until 6pm Monday through Friday. Pin is Puttshack, not a specific space.
Where 138 12th Ave N, metered street parking on 12th Ave N and Grundy St, Metro ParkSmart Zone 3
Source: Metro ParkSmart sign, photographed on site 8/23/26
The Gulch Street Parking
Metered, and the price climbs the longer you stay
PaidStreet parking
Metro charges by tier, not a flat rate. The first two hours run $2 an hour, hours three and four jump to $5, and anything past five hours is $6, up to a ten hour cap. So the Gulch is cheap for a quick stop and expensive for a long night. These meters sit inside Metro's Central Parking District as Zone 3 Gulch, which Metro publishes as 24 hour enforcement, so the evening is not free here the way it is in Midtown or Hillsboro Village. Time limits change block to block, so read the sign. One thing worth knowing before a night out: Metro will waive a single parking violation if you left the car and got home by rideshare, taxi, transit or a designated driver, as long as you have proof like a receipt and you file within 24 hours of the ticket.
Where 11th and 12th Ave S, Division St and side streets
$37.44 for 2 hours in the attached lot. Walk 3 minutes and pay $11.99
PaidRestaurant
The lot attached to The Mockingbird is PMC-run, and on 8/23/26 at 2:18pm it quoted $37.44 for two hours, $48.39 for four, $59.33 for six, $67.40 for eight, $78.92 for a day. Taxes and fees included. That is the most expensive two hours we have found anywhere in Nashville, and you are paying it to eat lunch. The Metropolis lot at 109 12th Ave S is about a three minute walk south and charges $11.99 for two hours. Same neighborhood, same two hours, $25 less. One catch on that one: it is not available for parking until 6pm Monday through Friday, so it only helps you at dinner and on weekends. PMC pushes a loyalty signup on the payment screen offering free late checkout and up to 10% off, which still leaves two hours here above $33. Diners disagree about whether The Mockingbird validates anywhere. One says they wish parking was covered. Another says they parked at the Whole Foods garage, got validated at the restaurant, and still paid $13. Ask before you park rather than after. Rates read off park.parkingmgt.com on 8/23/26. Pin is the restaurant.
Where 121 12th Ave N, PMC lot attached to the restaurant
Source: PMC checkout screen, captured on site 8/23/26
The Patterson House & Catbird Seat valet
Paid valet Wednesday to Saturday, 4pm to 11pm
PaidRestaurant valet
The Patterson House and The Catbird Seat share a paid valet at 718 Division St, Wednesday through Saturday from 4pm to 11pm, per both of their own sites. Neither site lists a price. The Catbird Seat's walk-in entrance is on Paseo Pl behind the Bill Voorhees building, which is separate from the valet. Read 10/14/26. We haven't been there in person. The pin is 718 Division St.