Parking Downtown
Where to park near the Plaza: the free town lots, the paid-lot rates, and the locals' annual permit.
Parking downtown is the most-complained-about ten minutes of a Taos visit, and the rules have changed more than once in the last two years. Here is the current system, read from the town's own parking page: free town lots, paid kiosk lots in the historic district, and a yearly permit for locals.
These rules have moved before
Paid parking was suspended, relaunched and re-priced between 2024 and 2025. This page matches the town's parking page as checked on June 12, 2026 — if something here disagrees with a sign in front of you, the sign and taosnm.gov win.
Free town lots — about 250 spaces
No kiosk, no fee, at six town locations
- Open
- Free — the town's parking page lists no fees or kiosks for these lots