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ATL cell phone lot: address, directions and how to time a pickup

ATL's free cell phone lot is the Park and Wait Lot at 1920 Autoport Drive, College Park. Directions from I-85 and Camp Creek Parkway, and pickup timing.

An open asphalt parking lot with a few cars parked far off and tall light poles, the cell phone waiting lot at Atlanta airport.
The Park and Wait cell phone lot at Atlanta airport

ATL’s cell phone lot is the Park and Wait Lot at 1920 Autoport Drive, College Park, GA 30337. It’s free, and ATL says it’s meant for visitors who’ll use it for only a brief period. Plan the pickup around a text from your passenger. ATL can’t page passengers or visitors, and its FAQ sends you to the passenger’s airline for paging.

Find the lot from I-85 or Camp Creek Parkway

It’s the only airport-run lot that charges nothing. Permanent signs and message boards on the airport roadways point to the lot. Our cell phone lot page has the lot’s listing, and our parking page sets it beside every other lot’s published rate.

Coming from ATL’s directions
I-85 North Take the Domestic Terminal exit. Turn right at the first available right onto Autoport Drive and follow the signs to the lot.
I-85 South Take the Domestic Terminal exit and follow the signs to ATL West Parking/Rental Car Center. At Rental Car Center Parkway and Crosswinds Road, stay in the far-right lane and follow the signs to the lot.
Camp Creek Parkway Take the Atlanta Airport exit and follow the signs to ATL West Parking/Rental Car Center. Stay in the far-right lane at the same intersection and follow the signs to the lot.

ATL’s pages don’t say how to reach the lot from the International Terminal. ATL puts that terminal’s entrance off Interstate 75 at Exit 239.

ATL doesn’t publish a time limit or hours

ATL’s parking page also gives no waiting rules and no drive time from the lot to either terminal. Before the day, run your map app’s route from the lot’s address to the terminal pickup road so you know your own number.

When to start driving

ATL’s FAQ calls the airline the best source for flight status.

A landing text is too early. A domestic passenger still has to get from the concourse to baggage claim, and ATL gives no time for that or for bags. Ask your passenger to message when they have their bags and are heading outside. Start driving then.

International arrivals clear passport control first

ATL says international passengers go from the aircraft down to the Arrivals level and through a Customs and Border Protection hall. They then reach baggage claim. Friends and family wait in the Arrivals hall. The ground transportation area, passenger pickup area and hourly parking facility are just outside it.

ATL publishes no processing time for any of that. Your passenger can also ride the free shuttle from the curb outside the International Terminal to the west end of the Domestic Terminal, and our International Terminal shuttle page has the stop details.

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