G D it, so there's half the season with no public parking at Hilton - that blows. The neighborhoods to the west have been packed by 3-4 hours before kick. Anyone have any suggestions for better spots, knowing 1) We usually tailgate with friends in C5 and 2) The whole family walks to the car after the game, including 2 young kids. Haunted Forest, maybe?
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G D it, so there's half the season with no public parking at Hilton - that blows. The neighborhoods to the west have been packed by 3-4 hours before kick. Anyone have any suggestions for better spots, knowing 1) We usually tailgate with friends in C5 and 2) The whole family walks to the car after the game, including 2 young kids. Haunted Forest, maybe?
That's a good call. That definitely may have been factored into the decision. Also, I visited a friends tailgate over there during the SDSU Ga.... Tailgate and they were getting some terrible ruts over there and that was before all the traffic of people leaving that day. I imagine that would just get worse and worse if it's wet at all Saturday. I didn't make it over there last week so I don't know what it looked like for the OU game.
I doubt it. G7 should have been closed for SDSU. G7 is completely flat and doesn't drain anywhere. There was a lot of standing water for SDSU and it got tore up bad. Wouldn't take much rain at this point to get more standing water there.
I drove by the Haunted Forest this morning...standing water in a lot of place just like the SDSU game. We tried to park and got stuck. They gave us our money back.
I feel bad for the hundreds of people that will have to find other parking arrangements.
Are there any safe businesses in the area that someone could park at so they could ride in to vetmed with our group? I've been hearing if you park in the KMart lot they will tow you. What about Lowe's and Sam's? Anyone park in either one of those lots?
I also noticed there is a dirt road/trail running under the interstate that goes right next to vetmed. There are parking lots just on the Southside of the interstate there for CPMI event center. Anyone ever park there and walk under the interstate to the vetmed lots?
I also noticed there is a dirt road/trail running under the interstate that goes right next to vetmed. There are parking lots just on the Southside of the interstate there for CPMI event center. Anyone ever park there and walk under the interstate to the vetmed lots?
Except for them deleting 200 spots (wild guess here) and being several spots short of what showed.
Hopefully all this rain in the forecast moves north or south or just disappears.
Frustrating weather streak!
Frustrating weather streak!
When they closed G7 for the OU game how did it work for the permit holders to go to Vet Med? Did they only allow people coming from the north to pull into the lot or did they break their own rule and allow cars to make left hand turns?
Hope it doesn't top this!
Don't laugh.... this might be in the cards if we get the kind of rains they're talking about.
This weather is just stupid.
Akron. G7 was open for OU. I came from the west on 16th and turned left, though I wasn't supposed to
Screwed up initially and turned at Entrance B. They were very accommodating and traffic wasn't bad at 9am.
sorry -- east, not westAkron. G7 was open for OU. I came from the west on 16th and turned left, though I wasn't supposed to
I think I could make the decision in the grass lots from here in the Des Moines where we haven’t had the rains like Ames The ground is saturated and will need a week(s) to be drivable. My wetland CRP is full
