Parking at Wrightsville Beach costs from $25/day. Compare 5 nearby lots and garages by price, walking distance and how full each one is right now, plus metered street parking. Lot locations, rates and hours are real and geocoded. Tap a pin for driving directions.
5 lots · 470 spaces. Scrub the time slider for the crowd estimate.
On-street parking
300 metered spaces · $5/hr · $25/day · Paid March 1–Oct 31, 9 AM–7 PM via Text2Park; Lumina Ave between Latimer and Columbia is $3/hr with a 1-hour limit. Pay by plate or ParkMobile.
Rates checked Oct 20, 2026. Posted prices at the lot always win.
Local moves
Paid parking runs March 1–Oct 31, 9 AM–8 PM at the premium lots and 9 AM–7 PM elsewhere, paid by Text2Park or Pay-by-Plate kiosk.
Wrightsville Beach Park on the Causeway gives two hours free on checkout (register your vehicle), but the town posts no beach parking there.
Paid parking is enforced 9 AM to 8 PM at the premium lots and to 7 PM at the rest, so early risers and sunset crowds skip the fee.
The municipal lots by Johnnie Mercer's Pier fill first on summer weekends; try the south-end accesses instead.
Parking at Wrightsville Beach costs from $25/day. The cheapest paid lot is Wrightsville Beach Park at $5/hr · $25/day.
Parking at Wrightsville Beach is paid — there is no free beach lot. Lots start at $25/day. Arriving early or late in the day is your best bet for a spot.
Wrightsville Beach has 5 lots within walking distance; the largest is Wrightsville Beach Park (150 spaces). The lots nearest the sand fill first, so the ones a block or two back usually have room. Use the live map above to compare walking distance and how full each lot is right now.
On warm, sunny weekend days the closest Wrightsville Beach lots fill by mid-morning. Arrive before 10 AM or after 4 PM for the easiest parking, and scrub the time slider on the map above for the crowd estimate hour by hour.
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Lot locations, counts, rates and hours are real, geocoded from each address. No live space-count feed is published, so availability is estimated from typical beach crowds and today’s weather. Your location is used only in your browser to sort by distance.
Main parking at Wrightsville Beach: Johnnie Mercer's Pier ($6/hr · $30/day) and East Salisbury Street Lot ($6/hr · $30/day), plus street parking at $5/hr · $25/day. Check today’s water, surf and UV on the conditions page.