Race Day Parking

Please find parking information for this year’s Chile Pepper Cross Country Festival below.

Please note: Dogs or Drones are NOT allowed on the course or grounds of Agri Park.  We are guests of the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and these are strict rules due to sensitive agricultural experiments on their property. Please remain on designated roads or paths. Do not cut through fields because you may be trampling on plantings or a student’s research project.

Friday Parking

Parking lots open and course access begins at 11:00am on Friday. Traffic (high school teams for Hoka’s Pre-Meet Shakeout, volunteers, and 1 Mile and 10K runners) will enter on W Knapp Dr from Garland Ave at Agri Park. High school teams may enter the property on Friday only and drop-off athletes near the festival area. Bus parking is available at the Pauline Whittaker Animal Science Center. The on-grounds parking lot is grass and cannot support large buses.

Participants in the 1 mile or 10k: click here for race day parking information.

Directions to Agri Park: Use I49 Exit 67A and proceed south on AR112 (Garland Ave) to W. Knapp Drive. Enter the grounds from W. Knapp Drive.

Saturday Parking

Please click below for parking information:

Free Spectator parking and shuttle services are available from the Washington County Fairgrounds on N McConnell Ave.

High School and Junior High school buses should drop off in Agri Park or at the Fairgrounds.  A complementary shuttle bus is available. Bus parking is available west of Garland Ave, near the Pauline Whittaker Animal Science Center. Buses are not permitted on onto the grounds of Agri Park on Saturday.

College Teams should access the property from N. Quality Lane off of Gregg Street. Teams with cars, SUV’s or small buses may park behind the start line. Teams in buses should drop participants off at the Washington Regional Business Office. Bus parking is available west of Garland Ave, near the Pauline Whittaker Animal Science Center. Please have your parking pass visible.

Volunteers, VIP, and Media will enter on W Knapp Dr from Garland Ave at Agri Park. Please have your parking pass visible.

Directions to Washington County Fairgrounds Spectator Parking Area: Use I49 Exit 67A and proceed south on AR112 (Garland Ave), west on Drake Street, and South on N McConnell Ave.

Directions to Agri Park: Use I49 Exit 67A and proceed south on AR112 (Garland Ave).

Directions to N Quality Lane: Use I49 Exit 67A.  South on AR112 (Garland Ave), east on Drake St, and South on Gregg St to Quality Lane.

ADA parking

For those individuals with an ADA parking permit (either permanent plate or temporary hangtag), parking is available near the Chile Pepper Festival Area. ADA parking is also available immediately adjacent to the bus shuttle pick up point at the Fairgrounds spectator parking area (use the shuttle bus to the course). Click here for ADA parking instructions.

Unfortunately due to limited availability, only those individuals with ADA parking permits will be able to access our ADA parking areas.

Inclement Weather (Rain)

Please note that many of our parking lots are on grass fields that are easily saturated. Vehicles with poor traction or low ground clearance are not recommended during or after inclement weather.