Park Princeton – Park. Pay. Be

Municipality of Princeton, NJ

About this app

No more digging for coins. This is how parking in Princeton, NJ should be.
Pay, extend, and manage your parking session with just a few taps. It’s easy!

Pay on the go
Pay quickly and securely with your smartphone.
- Time's precious, stop wasting your time feeding a meter.
- Forget refilling the meter in the rain or braving the cold.

No price surprises
See when parking rates will change in the future – even when there’s free parking!
- Receive email receipts at the end of your parking session.
- Expenses made easy, manage your parking history through the mobile app.

Stress-free parking
Get alerts when your parking session is about to end.
- Stop worrying about how much time is left on the meter, we have you covered.

No need to rush
Add time to your parking session directly from your phone.*
- Your plans change, your parking spot shouldn't. Simply extend your parking session via our app.

Get started today
1. Download the Park Princeton app
2. Park where you see Park Princeton app signs
3. Pay for your parking session from your phone
4. Relax, welcome to parking as it should be.

Coming soon
The Park Princeton app is not done yet! We're constantly updating the app based on your feedback.

App Permissions
- Location Services (optional): Used to quickly provide nearby parking zones.


*where applicable

Ratings and reviews

Terrible, inconsistent connectivity. Often on payment screen, with proper credit card credentials stored, will not accept payment (again connectivity). This occurs on Android and on that other mobile platform so it's not my phone. Also this occurs throughout the municipality. Over full bars LTE or 5G. Has been this way for more than a year. I keep trying, but every day must head to the meter in meatspace and whip out the plastic. Where, of course, payment goes through.

Definitely hard to use. You need to receive by e-mail or text a 6 digit pin number, then enter it in the app, then enter your access code twice, then the zone number, and then the space number. Finally, you get a choice of parking for 5 minutes or 2 hours, I couldn't figure out how to park for a half hour. Imagine trying to do this while it's raining. Don't waste your money, just carry around a roll of quarters.

Generally effective and convenient for parking in the area. I recently found out that if a meter you're parking at doesn't have enough power, you can't use the app and still need to pay with coins or card, but this only happened once.

What's new

Minor enhancements and bug fixes.