PACKTransit campus shuttle

 

The University of Nevada, Reno's main campus is spread across 290 acres. Don't worry, Parking Services offers a free shuttle service during the Fall and Spring semesters with a complimentary GPS-tracking app to make your cross-campus commutes quicker, easier, and more comfortable. The shuttle service does not operate during winter break, spring break or the summer.

Free PACKTransit shuttle service and live tracking

PACKTransit now offers live shuttle tracking through our partnership with Downtowner. You can use the mobile platform to see real-time shuttle locations, stops, and estimated arrival times. No ID is needed to ride, and it's free for all passengers boarding at campus stops.

Track PACKTransit shuttles 

East-campus residents

For those students residing at The Highlands and SAGA apartments, in order to utilize the shuttle service, must pay an annual fee to the University. This fee provides one shuttle access card and one Evening Parking Permit. The shuttle card must be presented when boarding the shuttle at the resident complexes. The Evening permit will allow parking for one vehicle per permit on campus after 3:30 p.m. in the West Stadium Parking Complex, after 5;30 p.m. in Silver, Tan, Green and Blue 1 zones and at meters excluding zones, spaces and meters marked RESERVED and “Enforce 24/7”. The bus service does not operate during winter break, spring break, or the summer.


Pack Line campus shuttle route

PACKTransit and Wolf Pack Tower Shuttle Route Map

PACKTransit operates a basic service in one continuous loop around the campus. This service line, called PACKLine, will serve 10 stops from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The PACKTransit campus shuttle operates only during the Fall and Spring semesters and discontinues service during Summer and Winter breaks.

PACKLine stops

  1. Outside Jot Travis Building
  2. Outside Church Fine Arts
  3. Outside Lombardi Recreation Center
  4. South of Lawlor Events Center along East 15th Street
  5. Between Family Medicine Center and Anderson Health Sciences
  6. North of 17th Street, just east of the U.S. Post Office
  7. North parking lot
  8. Southwest of Special Children's Clinic
  9. At The Highlands and Saga Reno Apartments
  10. Northeast of Ponderosa Village along Evans Avenue
  11. Outside Edmund J. Cain Hall
  12. Outside Fleischmann Agriculture

Starting at the stop in front of the Jot Travis Building, which is the Dorms' North stop, the campus shuttle moves north on Virginia Street, stopping at Church Fines Arts. It then continues north on Virginia Street, turning east on E. 15th Street and then veers northeast going north of Lombardi Recreation Center, servicing the Lombardi Recreation stop. Just after Lombardi Recreation Center it goes north along East Stadium Way until it turns west just past the Family Medicine Center at the traffic circle, serving the School of Medicine stop. It then continues west on 17th Street until it turns north between the U.S. Post Office and Central Services for the Post Office stop. It continues north and then it then turns back east just south of North McCarran Boulevard to service the North Green Lot stop. The shuttle continues east through the north Tan lot north of the School of Medicine, servicing the Enterprise Lot stop, and then meets up with Enterprise Road. The shuttle then crosses Evans Avenue, along Enterprise Road to The Highlands and Saga Reno Apartments where it circles back around towards Evans Avenue. The line follows Evans Avenue south where it stops at Ponderosa Village. The shuttle then continues south where it stops at Cain Hall and continues to a small circle made just south of Fleischmann Agriculture serving this stop. The shuttle then loops back heading west on 9th Street. At North Virginia Street the line heads north to meet back up with the original starting location at the Dorm North stop.

*The image above is a route map showing the basic shuttle service route. In order for passengers to board at The Highlands or Saga Reno Apartments, they must purchase an East Campus Resident Shuttle Access Pass from the University of Nevada, Reno Parking and Transportation Services Department.


Shuttle bus passenger policy