How to park at night without getting an expensive ticket!
Caledonia St. has a wide array of restaurants and bars, as well as Sausalito's movie theatre. If you're frantically looking for parking, however, it's easy to get a ticket. Here's what you need to know to have a good time:
The adjacent hillside neighborhood shaded pink below is a no parking zone at night for visitors. It's a sure-thing parking ticket unless you're a resident (see sign at left).
The green zone on the map below allows visitor parking, but there's a 2-hour limit and it's enforced as well.
There are some street parking spots on Caledonia, Bridgeway and the connecting streets between them, which are on the right-hand side of the map below. On many evenings all these spaces fill up. This area is on the right on the map below.
Sushi Ran, Plate Shop and Osteria Divino offer $6 valet parking with validation Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings in front of the Marin Cinema.
There's free parking in the narrow lot on Locust at Bridgeway, near the Bay. It's labeled "Free Evening Parking" on the map below. (Scroll down for more tips.)
Parking any time in the Green Zone at
upper left is limited to 2 hours for visitors.
Evening parking in the Pink Zone at Limited free street parking in this
lower left is for residents only. area at right of map after 6:00 PM.
Parking any time in the Green Zone at
upper left is limited to 2 hours for visitors.
Evening parking in the Pink Zone at Limited free street parking in this
lower left is for residents only. area at right of map after 6:00 PM.
The northernmost (and least expensive) of the downtown city parking lots has its northern tip at the foot of Johnson St. just south of the Caledonia srea. If everything else is packed (which is very rare) you can park here. See our Guide to Parking in Sausalito for more information.
The Google Map below is interactive and will let you explore the area and compare to the color-coded map above. It shows a closeup of the satellite image of the parking lot where you can park for free at the foot of Locust St. The street widens at this point to become the parking lot.
Google Map Instructions: Use the "+" and "-" buttons to zoom in and out, the arrow keys to scroll the map, and the SAT button to see the satellite view.
