South Florida app lets fans reserve neighborhood parking spots near Hard Rock

If you’re finding the cost of parking prohibitive for Monday night’s national championship game at Hard Rock Stadium, you may have a cheaper option, one that also puts some money into the pockets of locals.

An online platform created by the Boca Raton-based tech startup Prked offers residents living near the stadium the ability to rent out their driveways and yards to fans attending the game. And the cost is far less, for now, than parking sold on the traditional secondary market.

As of Sunday afternoon, nearly 600 parking spots were booked on the site, Zack Saadioui, Prked CEO and co-founder, said in an interview with the Miami Herald. The average price was $54 per spot with a range of $25 to $75, he said.

Hosts keep 80% of the fee and can take in as many cars that can fit. As of Sunday afternoon, Prked, which bills itself as an Airbnb for parking, listed about 250 hosts who live within 2 miles of Hard Rock, accounting for 1,167 verified parking spots, their CEO said. That means about one-half of the site’s current capacity is still available for those looking.

Current hosts on the platform can accommodate as few as four cars and as many as 20, Saadioui said.

Supply can increase too as more residents near Hard Rock opt to check out the site and participate.

Saadioui, 27, encouraged anyone interested in offering parking to go to the site and register quickly, as hosts are verified by the company before being listed on the site. Verification means providing identification, proof of living at the property and having the right to rent space out.

Hard Rock Stadium, which seats about 65,000, lacks sufficient parking. It said last week that all prepaid parking was sold out.

Parking passes offered on the secondary market, on sites such as StubHub.com or SeatGeek.com, go for $400 to $700, with one pass costing $2,000, the Herald reported last week.

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With such exorbitant costs, The Miami New Times even pondered whether getting your car towed would be cheaper than paying for parking.

And Uber and Lyft to Hard Rock Stadium are likely to be expensive and require a long wait.

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The idea of private residences charging fans for parking isn’t new. It is common in some college football towns like Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Gainesville, Florida.

Saadioui and his co-founder Dylan Fay, also 27, came up with the idea while students at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Both studied computer science.

The site officially became operational in 2023. It has offered parking at other major events such as Taylor Swift’s concerts at the Hard Rock Stadium and Dolphins home football games. It’s also participated in the three-day Rolling Loud hip-hop festival across the United States, to date the busiest Prked has ever been.

Yet, Monday night’s game “may surpass Rolling Loud,” Saadioui said.

Prked got a boost when Andy Slater, sports radio host, tweeted last week about the high cost of parking and the app. An avalanche of new customers ensued, said the company’s chief.

“Typically, reservations build slowly,” he noted. “We’ve never experienced anything like this before [in growth]”

Yet, the site still has plenty of capacity. “Customers are still coming in steadily,” the executive said, and that includes both Indiana University and University of Miami fans.

Besides the additional cash, hosting is a chance to get to know fans.

Hosts often offer water to their customers. Some drive guests to the stadium, although most of them walk. You can also often tailgate in the yards of some hosts.

“Some hosts go all out,” said Saadioui .

Natalie Barr, who lives in Miami Gardens, has offered her yard on Prked for several years now, mostly for Dolphins games. Her home is about a 10-minute walk to Hard Rock.

Her front yard, side, and back-yard can typically accommodate 12 cars. But for Monday night’s game, she is allowing 16. And she’s all sold out.

Barr said he started out charging $25 “because we didn’t know how much the stadium was charging” but raised the fee to $50 for the last few guests. So, Prked can also rise and fall with the market.

But, she said, “normally I keep it at $25.”

She makes sure cars are parked so that no one is blocking the other. She allows tailgating in her yard and stays up until everyone has left for their homes.

Another option

If you don’t want to drive at all, the free HRS Express shuttle service will be operating on Monday, as it has for Dolphins games.

Passes to park at HRS Express lots (Lot 70 and 95) are sold out for Monday, but fans can take rideshare services to those lots, or be dropped off, and from there take the shuttle. Organizers say that’ll be more convenient for fans than having to search for an Uber near the stadium late Monday night.

The shuttles pick up right outside the northwest gate of the stadium as fans exit and hop on the turnpike using an express lane to bypass post-game traffic leaving the stadium.

For Monday, fans have to show a valid game ticket to board the shuttle. Buses start running at 11 a.m. More information is available here.

This story was originally published January 18, 2026 at 6:01 PM.