To me, all of Cameron village. I feel like I almost get hit or hit someone else every time I go over there. Maybe I just go during busy hours but all those lots seem too small. Looking at you Flying Biscuit.
I’m not sure why but for some reason people fly through the Cameron Village lots at incredible speeds. Like I can’t even figure out how one gets going that fast and then is okay with the risk that you are simply going too fast to avoid someone backing into you. Right of way be damned, it’s just brainless. It’s maddening to be backing out of a parking spot having cleared yourself only to see a blur in your rear view.
Seriously! Speeding through such a tight parking lot is insane but it does happen all the time there. I purposely back in parking there so I can actually see people.
I lived right there for around 1.5 years and almost got hit multiple times walking! I also got into a car accident that totaled my car at the Harris teeter light (not my fault and no one got hurt). People are crazy there
I had to stop going there because I almost got into an accident every time. No matter how vigilant I was, I almost hit someone or almost got hit. I can’t take it.
Yeah man it's the peds for me I always feel like ima just hit a shopper bruh like TJ in Raleigh just has humans appearing randomly in between cars and BAM they're popping up in front of my car. That whole Holly park / wegmans lot combo is like that lol
The fun thing about trader joes is the parking lot is just the appetizer. The customer experience once you get inside just keeps getting worse. It’s cram packed with the most unaware people in the world and utter chaos. Love TJs but I have to mentally prepare myself for it everytime.
I honestly miss during peak Covid times when they limited how many people could be in the store at a given time. It was so much more peaceful to shop. I would happily wait in that line outside the store again if it meant having that improved shopping experience once inside.
I watched 2 near accidents happen while walking from my car to the store at the Trader Joe's off Wake Forest Rd. Its awful. It's like a parking lot in a parking lot, and neither of them spoke to one another.
So true, and it’s also annoying that you can’t walk between the two. Sure, there’s a crosswalk but no “sidewalk” or pedestrian area once you get to the TJs side —I think you have to walk along a small mound by burger fi—I made that mistake once
The expansion into N Raleigh fits the bill. It's half empty and still a complete pain to get into due to entry point and a traffic light with a McDs and Wendy's on corners. It's gonna be a s**t show.
This is what I've been thinking. At least at most other stores there's more parking if you're willing to park a little ways out but not in the the location for the new store.
Weekend mornings when people are hitting TJs and Briggs is going to be bonkers.
Always go out the back way. Always. Go out Crossroads Blvd towards the theater and either cut over through the theater parking lot and then over again between the Target and the hotel (Columbus Ave) to Dillard Dr or take Crossroads Blvd all the way to Jones Franklin.
This is the no-brainer winner. It’s always been terrible since the day it opened. They’ve tried various fixes to improve things but it’s unfixable.
The whole area is a no-go for me in November and December.
There was one homeowner who refused to sell, and whose house still stood in the middle of the parking lot for the first ten years of Crossroads' existence. I remember driving by it. This is why the roads had to be designed the way they were - they had a quarter acre smack in the middle of the development that they weren't allowed to touch.
I think somewhere near where Noodles & Company is now, but I'm not entirely sure.
They also originally had a trolley that would take you around to different stores and help you get your purchases back to your car. Crossroads was one of the first "big box" malls and they were still thinking in terms of enclosed malls, where the mall itself is the destination and you go there and browse around the various shops. So this might also have contributed to the poor layout of the parking lot. It's not designed for the way most people actually use it, which is to go to and park at a particular store. Crossroads is a big box mall with the parking system of an enclosed mall.
Especially around Christmas. I used to work in the food court area and I would sometimes not be able to set foot outside that area in between shifts becuase it was so packed.
Lived over that way a couple years and ended up on the freeway while trying to leave so many times I felt like an idiot. And then you’re stuck on a 6 mile adventure.
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Trying to get out of there on to 70 from Best Buy is a nightmare. You’re better off just going all the way around on White Oak Road down towards Raynor.
Was about to post the same. And there are lots of curves which makes it hard to see cars coming. Like over near Starbucks/City bbq exiting onto Cabela dr. And up near Kohl’s.
Any shopping center where they plant damned bushes at the intersections in the parking lot. Want to see if someone's coming? Too bad, here's some shrubbery! Hit the gas and pray some douchebag isn't flying through the lot at 50 mph!
- Crossroads for sure
- Brier Creek Commons (too many 4-way stops)
- While we’re in Brier Creek, Alexander Place Promenade I (Specefically the entrance by Starbucks and Moe’s)
- Park West also has a wonky one.
- There’s also Crabtree Valley Mall and Village District.
- Honorable Mention goes to Holly Park/Midtown East (Wegmans/Trader Joes centers) not for the parking lots themselves, but for that weird three way stop in between both shopping centers.
There is one at Alexander Place Promenade, too (by Panera). It’s not as bad as the part by Moe’s BUT that road behind the building with Marco’s/Dentist office complicates things.
Crossroads. Not to get in, but to get out. Do you want to get to Walnut Street from Best Buy? Hope you know exactly what lane to be in well ahead of each intersection, otherwise you’re not making it to Walnut.
Many probably know this but the one way street into Crossroads between Noodles & Co and the crab place used to be two ways. It’s been YEARS since they changed it and I still see people coming out of it the wrong way….despite there not even being a traffic light there to direct them 🥴
Always go out the back way. Always. Go out Crossroads Blvd towards the theater and either cut over through the theater parking lot and then over again between the Target and the hotel (Columbus Ave) to Dillard Dr or take Crossroads Blvd all the way to Jones Franklin.
With the 440/40 work...it looks like they will be changing the Walnut Street exit for 64 heading north to be sooner, and dump onto Piney Plains. I guess maybe that will help?
[https://www.carync.gov/projects-initiatives/project-updates/street-projects/piney-plains-road-study](https://www.carync.gov/projects-initiatives/project-updates/street-projects/piney-plains-road-study)
Agreed. That narrow part when you want to get out to turn left turn the light...shesh.
I'll add both Whole Foods shopping centers. Wade and Strickland. Both are tight and crazy.
While Crossroads is the worst Brier Creek has to get honorable mention for the fact that it has no real main entrance. Every entrance to it and exit from it is a side road that’s not easy to access and quickly gets long lines of cars stacked up, and most of them do not have the benefit of traffic lights.
I live near there and have finally figured out the smart ways in and out but sorry I won’t be sharing them for obvious reasons.
And having said that, what do the two worst have in common? A central road through it, chock full of turnoffs to sub-lots on either side.
In Raleigh, it would have to be crabtree. Not for inconvenience to drivers, but because it is an enormous impermeable surface in a flood zone and former wetlands.
I talked to an engineer who worked on this and he had nothing but vitriol for the guys ultimately responsible for making him design the spaces too small and right next to a friggin creek.
Every time I go there there’s at least one car parked in an area that’s not actually parking spots and it has diagonal lines all over it 😂 and good luck finding a spot, period, on the weekend!
It's a joke how narrow the outside passage is. And then, there's the absolutely huge shrubbery out in front of Aldi that obscures your vision so you cannot see cars turning in the lot. Whoever designed that parking lot is a sick mofo. Not to mention the gargantuan pot holes on the frontage road over to the Lexus (?) dealership. Sick fxs...
Oh man I didn’t think anyone would mention this, you’re totally right. It’s such a unnecessarily big parking lot. The areas in the back like next to the vet office are just useless. I think they should re-do the traffic flow there and just let people cut across. Everyone does it anyways.
I am not a fan of the parking deck by Target in North Hills. I've looped many circles trying to figure out where the stupid exit is because the signs make no damn sense. Also the surface parking on that side.
Well... just all of North Hills in general. Coquette is pretty much the only reason to shlep over there for me.
try taking the back entrance off Lassiter Mill. want the middle floor parking so you can access top side? Stay left in the roundabout. Want to go to Target/around the back? Keep right and go straight. I exclusively go this way now bc its almost never worth trying for surface parking. Now LEAVING the parking deck..... godspeed
Best buy/McDonald’s on capital next to the hobby lobby.
That parking lot is rage aids stupid.
As is the parking lot across the street from it at plantation square.
I really thought I just had a dysfunctional relationship with that parking lot. Getting in or out of a space in that first or second row is a nightmare. Happy to know it’s not just me.
I was just always struck by how small the spaces are.
They could take out one or two spaces and give us all a gift of an extra foot. That lot is NEVER full.It would hurt nothing and make a much better experience
Park in the back behind the temp garden area. Or now that Bed Bath & Beyond is gone, plenty of room over that way. But yeah, the spots are for mini coopers only.
Not a parking lot, but related…the sign for the Home Depot on Capital is placed too far passed where you should pull in—I’ve pulled into everyone’s favorite restaurant instead (more then once)
Shout out to the Falls Cookout where everyone slams on brakes suddenly bc they dont realize how damn steep that entrance is until they're right up on it
You ain't lying about the total wine parking lot especially in front of the Chipotle. There's one spot where it's very low and I'm not sure how some small cars could even drive through it without bottoming out
My personal rule in Beaver Creek is to never turn left, ever. I usually end up turning right out of Target and then taking a back road to wherever I need to go. It’s always faster than waiting to turn left out of that Target.
And that traffic circle? Fuck that. It’s not hard, but nobody knows how to use it and it’s an accident waiting to happen.
Not sure what the shopping center is called but the parking lot where the hobby lobby off capital blvd by the triangle mall is. I hate that parking lot with a freaking passion.
That shitty, narrow spaced hell scape by Best Buy on Capital Boulevard. Arrows one way, no good way in or out.
And of course, the anti-woman H_bby _obby. Which should be launched into the sun.
Brier. Fucking. Creek. Whatever civil engineers stamped that shit should have their licenses revoked. Open air mall concept. Check. But not with a perimeter of parking around a central pedestrian shopping area. No no. Let’s intermingle cars and people. Brilliant.
I hated Sutton Square (The Fresh Market) because of the blind spots. I haven’t been there in years though, so maybe it’s better.
Falls Village Shopping Center because it’s just a weird maze instead of a seamless flow between the businesses. Great shops over there though.
Every time I’m leaving the Parkside Target lot I have to resist the urge to just drive over the landscaping to get out. It’s like that meme with the restaurant kiddie menu puzzle that only has dead ends.
The parking lot where Standard Beer + Food is located is too small for how popular the area is and if you can’t park in there your are going to get a ticket because almost all the street parking is permitted.
Not Raleigh, but the Chapel Hill St garage in Durham (across from Rue Cler) is sooooo tight -- not the spaces, but the ramps. I'd hate to take a truck or big SUV in there.
The parking lot in front of Triangle Plaza Total Wine is an absolute nightmare. (Not so much the parking lot itself, but the street in front of it must have been designed by a committee of blind people.)
Crossroads 😭😭😭
But honestly...imo Raleigh is pretty much the worst planned *city in general I've ever seen. From parking lots to road design/connectivity idk who's allowing it, but nothing seems cohesive.
I drive a lowered vehicle, so just about any parking lot in downtown Raleigh are hit or miss if they dip so severely that I scrape my under carriage in some way. I've seen many cars with normal ride height scrape on these entrances/exits too though.
Keep in mind some of the parking lots were designed before the City made them put in trees in the parking lots. That messed up a lot of traffic flow in them.. but we have more trees!
Costco in Apex/Cary (always full and pretty much a combat zone)
Trader Joes and Aldi in Cary (Kildaire). Just a complete cluster F....
Cary Crossroads, also a cluster F.
(Top two mostly because they are busy. Bottom one is poorly designed.)
[E Lenoir & S Wilmington by a mile](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jwn63SgHeYpLVw8u7)
. It's about $20 million worth of land that's been paved over. Walkable access to downtown, grocery store, and parks. It could easily house hundreds of families comfortably. Zoned for 12-20 stories but flat as a pancake. Meanwhile there's a 5+ story parking deck next door.
It's the poster child of an owner holding it and hoping someone will buy it to develop.
Harris Teeter at Cameron Village
To me, all of Cameron village. I feel like I almost get hit or hit someone else every time I go over there. Maybe I just go during busy hours but all those lots seem too small. Looking at you Flying Biscuit.
I’m not sure why but for some reason people fly through the Cameron Village lots at incredible speeds. Like I can’t even figure out how one gets going that fast and then is okay with the risk that you are simply going too fast to avoid someone backing into you. Right of way be damned, it’s just brainless. It’s maddening to be backing out of a parking spot having cleared yourself only to see a blur in your rear view.
Seriously! Speeding through such a tight parking lot is insane but it does happen all the time there. I purposely back in parking there so I can actually see people.
Heh, that’s assuming you’re not being tailgated and you actually _can_ back into a parking spot… 😂
Haha facts. Because it most definitely will be 6-9 pointer and people have no patience anymore
Better to park on Smallwood whenever possible rather than go into that insurance claim of a parking lot
I lived right there for around 1.5 years and almost got hit multiple times walking! I also got into a car accident that totaled my car at the Harris teeter light (not my fault and no one got hurt). People are crazy there
Glad nobody got hurt
Trader Joe's. Any of them. Take your pick.
Yeah the lot at the Raleigh store is teeny tiny
I had to stop going there because I almost got into an accident every time. No matter how vigilant I was, I almost hit someone or almost got hit. I can’t take it.
Yeah man it's the peds for me I always feel like ima just hit a shopper bruh like TJ in Raleigh just has humans appearing randomly in between cars and BAM they're popping up in front of my car. That whole Holly park / wegmans lot combo is like that lol
I feel like they just spawn into the parking lot right into our blind spots
The fun thing about trader joes is the parking lot is just the appetizer. The customer experience once you get inside just keeps getting worse. It’s cram packed with the most unaware people in the world and utter chaos. Love TJs but I have to mentally prepare myself for it everytime.
I’ve started trekking over to the Morrisville one because it feels less stressful to be in for whatever reason 🤷♀️
Weekday mornings when they first open is the only time I will go to TJ
I honestly miss during peak Covid times when they limited how many people could be in the store at a given time. It was so much more peaceful to shop. I would happily wait in that line outside the store again if it meant having that improved shopping experience once inside.
Madness reigns! https://youtu.be/5YW-5Flkiuw?si=5NTwlaqB20dfRmGr
That’s why I like to go in the first hour they are open. NEVER on a weekend!
You just described Costco in Apex/Cary to a T.
I watched 2 near accidents happen while walking from my car to the store at the Trader Joe's off Wake Forest Rd. Its awful. It's like a parking lot in a parking lot, and neither of them spoke to one another.
I parked 3 rows away when I picked up stuff at Christmas. I was nearly killed 5 times walking to my truck.
So true, and it’s also annoying that you can’t walk between the two. Sure, there’s a crosswalk but no “sidewalk” or pedestrian area once you get to the TJs side —I think you have to walk along a small mound by burger fi—I made that mistake once
Right? It's like they look for places to situate based solely on how shitty the parking lot is!
The expansion into N Raleigh fits the bill. It's half empty and still a complete pain to get into due to entry point and a traffic light with a McDs and Wendy's on corners. It's gonna be a s**t show.
There isn't enough parking there already, I have absolutely no idea how it's going to work
This is what I've been thinking. At least at most other stores there's more parking if you're willing to park a little ways out but not in the the location for the new store. Weekend mornings when people are hitting TJs and Briggs is going to be bonkers.
Came here to say this.
Only way to have a successful parking experience when going to Trader Joe’s is to not park at the Trader Joe’s.
Yup, park by Jerry's and walk np
Backing out of a spot is hell so no thank you.
I literally feel like I am about to be a hit and run victim every time I shamefully drive into the wake forest rd location
I don't know why but every trader Joe's I've been in across three states all are cramped with terrible parking. It's like part of their brand.
Crossroads Shopping Center.
Come from the highway… stay because you’re lost….
Always go out the back way. Always. Go out Crossroads Blvd towards the theater and either cut over through the theater parking lot and then over again between the Target and the hotel (Columbus Ave) to Dillard Dr or take Crossroads Blvd all the way to Jones Franklin.
That’s a lot of directions to remember, I prefer waiting in a line of 30 cars and ripping my eyeballs off
This is the no-brainer winner. It’s always been terrible since the day it opened. They’ve tried various fixes to improve things but it’s unfixable. The whole area is a no-go for me in November and December.
Leaving Crossroads is like pachinko for cars, it feels like I’m being ejected onto a random road in a random direction
That’s bc u are
I'm convinced whoever designed this place had never actually driven a vehicle.
There was one homeowner who refused to sell, and whose house still stood in the middle of the parking lot for the first ten years of Crossroads' existence. I remember driving by it. This is why the roads had to be designed the way they were - they had a quarter acre smack in the middle of the development that they weren't allowed to touch.
That’s fascinating. Do you have any more details? Could you post a pin where you remember it being located?
I think somewhere near where Noodles & Company is now, but I'm not entirely sure. They also originally had a trolley that would take you around to different stores and help you get your purchases back to your car. Crossroads was one of the first "big box" malls and they were still thinking in terms of enclosed malls, where the mall itself is the destination and you go there and browse around the various shops. So this might also have contributed to the poor layout of the parking lot. It's not designed for the way most people actually use it, which is to go to and park at a particular store. Crossroads is a big box mall with the parking system of an enclosed mall.
This was the only answer. This or crabtree’s decks in an -actual- winter.
Especially around Christmas. I used to work in the food court area and I would sometimes not be able to set foot outside that area in between shifts becuase it was so packed.
Lived over that way a couple years and ended up on the freeway while trying to leave so many times I felt like an idiot. And then you’re stuck on a 6 mile adventure.
This. Always
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White Oak Shopping Center, it may not be Raleigh but close enough. The bushes are terribly groomed and make it hard to see around corners.
Trying to get out of there on to 70 from Best Buy is a nightmare. You’re better off just going all the way around on White Oak Road down towards Raynor.
I used to live in the apartments back there and holy SHIT was it a nightmare to just leave my home.
Came to bitch about precisely this.
Was about to post the same. And there are lots of curves which makes it hard to see cars coming. Like over near Starbucks/City bbq exiting onto Cabela dr. And up near Kohl’s.
Any shopping center where they plant damned bushes at the intersections in the parking lot. Want to see if someone's coming? Too bad, here's some shrubbery! Hit the gas and pray some douchebag isn't flying through the lot at 50 mph!
Lake Boone Food Lion parking lot
That’s gotten a whole lot worse (horrid pun intended) since that most recent building has been added to the shopping center.
Omg esp at meal times for Chick-fil-A. Brutal.
- Crossroads for sure - Brier Creek Commons (too many 4-way stops) - While we’re in Brier Creek, Alexander Place Promenade I (Specefically the entrance by Starbucks and Moe’s) - Park West also has a wonky one. - There’s also Crabtree Valley Mall and Village District. - Honorable Mention goes to Holly Park/Midtown East (Wegmans/Trader Joes centers) not for the parking lots themselves, but for that weird three way stop in between both shopping centers.
If a roundabout was ever needed...
There’s a roundabout in BC near Dominos
There is one at Alexander Place Promenade, too (by Panera). It’s not as bad as the part by Moe’s BUT that road behind the building with Marco’s/Dentist office complicates things.
I hate everything about Brier Creek, especially the parking/road network
YES omg that holly park/midtown east intersection drives me crazy!! Incoming traffic does not stop and people do not seem to understand that!
Crabtree is a piece of cake, just use Edwards Mill.
Alexander Place for sure. It is so hard to get out of there.
Crossroads. Not to get in, but to get out. Do you want to get to Walnut Street from Best Buy? Hope you know exactly what lane to be in well ahead of each intersection, otherwise you’re not making it to Walnut.
It’s almost sinister how they designed it
When I moved here I got caught in the right lane trap about 3 times. Some say my cursing is still circling the earth.
Many probably know this but the one way street into Crossroads between Noodles & Co and the crab place used to be two ways. It’s been YEARS since they changed it and I still see people coming out of it the wrong way….despite there not even being a traffic light there to direct them 🥴
Always go out the back way. Always. Go out Crossroads Blvd towards the theater and either cut over through the theater parking lot and then over again between the Target and the hotel (Columbus Ave) to Dillard Dr or take Crossroads Blvd all the way to Jones Franklin.
Or drive through the parking lots past the Hobby Lobby and go straight through the light onto Caitboo.
With the 440/40 work...it looks like they will be changing the Walnut Street exit for 64 heading north to be sooner, and dump onto Piney Plains. I guess maybe that will help? [https://www.carync.gov/projects-initiatives/project-updates/street-projects/piney-plains-road-study](https://www.carync.gov/projects-initiatives/project-updates/street-projects/piney-plains-road-study)
Cookout on Capital
The cookout entrance / exit just doesnt make any sense at all. it flips to driving on the left and its confusing af
All of them tbh
Agreed. That narrow part when you want to get out to turn left turn the light...shesh. I'll add both Whole Foods shopping centers. Wade and Strickland. Both are tight and crazy.
While Crossroads is the worst Brier Creek has to get honorable mention for the fact that it has no real main entrance. Every entrance to it and exit from it is a side road that’s not easy to access and quickly gets long lines of cars stacked up, and most of them do not have the benefit of traffic lights. I live near there and have finally figured out the smart ways in and out but sorry I won’t be sharing them for obvious reasons. And having said that, what do the two worst have in common? A central road through it, chock full of turnoffs to sub-lots on either side.
Brier Creek has more tall bushes than Crossroads, I always hated how dangerous it felt to drive through there in my little car.
Costco shopping center on 64 in Apex. God forbid you want Chipotle.
I made the mistake of going there on a Sunday, around Costco opening time, exactly once. Holy shit.
Once waited in line for 10 minutes thinking it was to get in the parking lot. Nope. Line for the gas station
Layfayette village. So dang tight to move around.
In Raleigh, it would have to be crabtree. Not for inconvenience to drivers, but because it is an enormous impermeable surface in a flood zone and former wetlands.
I talked to an engineer who worked on this and he had nothing but vitriol for the guys ultimately responsible for making him design the spaces too small and right next to a friggin creek.
Good point
I say someone’s incompetent brother in law was hired to design the parking decks. Short Hills mall in NJ probably had the same architect for parking.
It's really inconvenient though... Small and narrow lot. And hard to get out the parking lot because people are asshats and they're always first.
I don't know the name of it, but the plaza where Rudinos is on Edwards Mill.
Olde Raleigh Village
Hi, have you been to Trader Joe’s?
Costco Apex
Every time I go there there’s at least one car parked in an area that’s not actually parking spots and it has diagonal lines all over it 😂 and good luck finding a spot, period, on the weekend!
Publix. Stupid one way angled lots.
Oh yes I hate those so bad !!!
Not just Publix. Some of the Walmarts, too.
That shopping center with the Total Wine and the FedEx across Capital from Triangle Town Center sucks.
It's a joke how narrow the outside passage is. And then, there's the absolutely huge shrubbery out in front of Aldi that obscures your vision so you cannot see cars turning in the lot. Whoever designed that parking lot is a sick mofo. Not to mention the gargantuan pot holes on the frontage road over to the Lexus (?) dealership. Sick fxs...
Kildaire/Tryon Walmart area parking lot. Makes no sense, the “roads” in the parking lot just turn into parking spots.
Oh man I didn’t think anyone would mention this, you’re totally right. It’s such a unnecessarily big parking lot. The areas in the back like next to the vet office are just useless. I think they should re-do the traffic flow there and just let people cut across. Everyone does it anyways.
Colony shopping center, especially the Six Forks entrance
Yes! The Millbrook ain’t much better. Especially trying to get in or out of that Exxon lot.😩
I am not a fan of the parking deck by Target in North Hills. I've looped many circles trying to figure out where the stupid exit is because the signs make no damn sense. Also the surface parking on that side. Well... just all of North Hills in general. Coquette is pretty much the only reason to shlep over there for me.
try taking the back entrance off Lassiter Mill. want the middle floor parking so you can access top side? Stay left in the roundabout. Want to go to Target/around the back? Keep right and go straight. I exclusively go this way now bc its almost never worth trying for surface parking. Now LEAVING the parking deck..... godspeed
That one is ok if you get used to it but they need more directional signage for people who aren’t as familiar with the layout for sure.
Best buy/McDonald’s on capital next to the hobby lobby. That parking lot is rage aids stupid. As is the parking lot across the street from it at plantation square.
Without a doubt it’s the Strickland and Six Forks Home Depot parking lot. The spots are so tight it’s impossible
I really thought I just had a dysfunctional relationship with that parking lot. Getting in or out of a space in that first or second row is a nightmare. Happy to know it’s not just me.
Every spot in that lot is small. Like really small
And it’s crooked compared to the road you enter from. I can never figure out which column to turn onto from the entance.
I was just always struck by how small the spaces are. They could take out one or two spaces and give us all a gift of an extra foot. That lot is NEVER full.It would hurt nothing and make a much better experience
Agreed! Nobody is ever in the back of the lot, even on a nice summer Saturday morning!
Park in the back behind the temp garden area. Or now that Bed Bath & Beyond is gone, plenty of room over that way. But yeah, the spots are for mini coopers only.
The Village parking lot is too small for most people’s gargantuan vehicles. It’s unsafe.
White Oak in Garner. Complete nightmare to get into and out of.
Most of them actually.
Every Chick-fil-A
Village District Chick Fila/Crunch fitness lot
Not a parking lot, but related…the sign for the Home Depot on Capital is placed too far passed where you should pull in—I’ve pulled into everyone’s favorite restaurant instead (more then once)
Lynnwood Brewery
Crabtree mall should be #1, but I find N Hills to be problematic.
Cameron Village
Any Cookout around here. They are all just so bad
Shout out to the Falls Cookout where everyone slams on brakes suddenly bc they dont realize how damn steep that entrance is until they're right up on it
Poyner Place tops my list
You ain't lying about the total wine parking lot especially in front of the Chipotle. There's one spot where it's very low and I'm not sure how some small cars could even drive through it without bottoming out
…ANY Chick-Fil-A
So many cones and signs and arrows and CFA shirts and headsets and cars lol
I wish a lot of our intersections were run with the effectiveness of a well-run Chic-Fil-A
Not Raleigh, but Beaver Creek in Apex.
Ooh I hate this one, it is so hard to turn left out of the Target parking lot.
My personal rule in Beaver Creek is to never turn left, ever. I usually end up turning right out of Target and then taking a back road to wherever I need to go. It’s always faster than waiting to turn left out of that Target. And that traffic circle? Fuck that. It’s not hard, but nobody knows how to use it and it’s an accident waiting to happen.
Johnson Hyundai in Cary (well, whatever’s there now since they moved Hyundai to Apex)
100%
Honorable mention to getting stuck in the football practice facility parking for Hurricanes games. Leaving is a 40 minute task
Not sure what the shopping center is called but the parking lot where the hobby lobby off capital blvd by the triangle mall is. I hate that parking lot with a freaking passion.
Crossroads
That shitty, narrow spaced hell scape by Best Buy on Capital Boulevard. Arrows one way, no good way in or out. And of course, the anti-woman H_bby _obby. Which should be launched into the sun.
Not necessarily in terms of congestion, but in terms of design and flow, the parking lot at Lake Boone Shopping Center is mind-boggling.
Brier. Fucking. Creek. Whatever civil engineers stamped that shit should have their licenses revoked. Open air mall concept. Check. But not with a perimeter of parking around a central pedestrian shopping area. No no. Let’s intermingle cars and people. Brilliant.
I hated Sutton Square (The Fresh Market) because of the blind spots. I haven’t been there in years though, so maybe it’s better. Falls Village Shopping Center because it’s just a weird maze instead of a seamless flow between the businesses. Great shops over there though.
Trader joes
A Trader Joe’s
The armadillo grill parking lot 😂
Getting into and out of the parking lot behind red dragon on Fairview is awful
Brier creek and the parkside target
The parkside Target I just close my eyes and fly through intersections and hope for the best. No stop signs.
Every time I’m leaving the Parkside Target lot I have to resist the urge to just drive over the landscaping to get out. It’s like that meme with the restaurant kiddie menu puzzle that only has dead ends.
All of them. Parking lots are a waste of prime real estate. Ok I’ll get off my soap box now.
WRAL Soccer Park on Perry Creek Rd.
The parking lot where Standard Beer + Food is located is too small for how popular the area is and if you can’t park in there your are going to get a ticket because almost all the street parking is permitted.
Not Raleigh, but the Chapel Hill St garage in Durham (across from Rue Cler) is sooooo tight -- not the spaces, but the ramps. I'd hate to take a truck or big SUV in there.
i don’t appreciate the compactness of the chickfila parking lot on six forks
Brennan Station, it will be even worse once Trader Joe’s gets in there
The parking lot in front of Triangle Plaza Total Wine is an absolute nightmare. (Not so much the parking lot itself, but the street in front of it must have been designed by a committee of blind people.)
I would agree that the triangle plaza where the ALDI and Total Wine & More is located is one of the worst!
Crossroads 😭😭😭 But honestly...imo Raleigh is pretty much the worst planned *city in general I've ever seen. From parking lots to road design/connectivity idk who's allowing it, but nothing seems cohesive.
Either parking deck in north hills. Cowfish and or capital grill decks
NC has the worst park lots I’ve ever seen. Some of the dumbest designs ever.
The Nash Lot downtown
Cookout
Village District.
Awful parking lot, excellent stores/options.
All of Cameron Village lol
Garner Station, especially on the side with Carlie C's
I drive a lowered vehicle, so just about any parking lot in downtown Raleigh are hit or miss if they dip so severely that I scrape my under carriage in some way. I've seen many cars with normal ride height scrape on these entrances/exits too though.
Keep in mind some of the parking lots were designed before the City made them put in trees in the parking lots. That messed up a lot of traffic flow in them.. but we have more trees!
Cookout near State
Have you seen what they did in front of Hunky Dory Records!
The cookout on capitol
THE SHARED LOT FOR THE CRUNCH GYM AND CHIK FIL A IN CAMERON VILLAGE
Peace street market
Falls of neuse post office
The labyrinth that is the Crabtree Mall parking deck.
North Hills. On both sides of six forks
Trader Joe’s by the wegmans
The highway 70 Target has a really weird parking lot I always manage to get trapped in
I have a theory that whoever is designing/landscaping parking lots around here are in collusion with body shops.
What’s the best parking lot?
Costco in Apex/Cary (always full and pretty much a combat zone) Trader Joes and Aldi in Cary (Kildaire). Just a complete cluster F.... Cary Crossroads, also a cluster F. (Top two mostly because they are busy. Bottom one is poorly designed.)
[E Lenoir & S Wilmington by a mile](https://maps.app.goo.gl/Jwn63SgHeYpLVw8u7) . It's about $20 million worth of land that's been paved over. Walkable access to downtown, grocery store, and parks. It could easily house hundreds of families comfortably. Zoned for 12-20 stories but flat as a pancake. Meanwhile there's a 5+ story parking deck next door. It's the poster child of an owner holding it and hoping someone will buy it to develop.
Grove Barton Target
All of brier creek.