overnight parking at springfield
 

hey i am new to the area an am unfamiliar with the DC metro system. i am wanting to park my car overnight on a thuresday at the Springfield-Franconia metro station. is that possible? do they have areas where you can leave your car overnight at that station? thank you for your help.

Welcome to Flyertalk, clueless22. I am moving this over to the FT Washington, D.C. Forum. You are likely to find the answer you seek there.
Obscure2k
TravelBuzz Moderator

You're in luck. This is from the WMATA website:

"Multiple day parking is available at three stations: Greenbelt, Huntington and Franconia-Springfield. Each of these stations has between 15 and 17 spaces allocated for multi-day use of up to 10 days, which are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

These spaces, located inside the regular facilities and not at the metered (kiss and ride) spaces are at . . . Level 1J at Franconia station."

Given the limited number of long-term designated spaces, I can't speak to whether such a space would be available on any particular day. Good luck.

OP was only asking about parking over ONE night. According to the Metro website "All-day parking, up to 24 hours, is available at all stations that have Metro-operated parking lots." i.e. Overnight parking (not to exceed 24 hours total) is perfectly proper at any Metro-operated lot.

Obviously, they won't know exactly when you parked, so the "24 hours" can only be loosely enforce. Just don't park over 2 nights - that might be asking for enforcement of the 24-hour rule.