Hotels with free parking and EV charging in Springfield
Hotel parking lot in Springfield Tennessee
Ten Springfield-area hotels where parking is included and you don’t get gouged $25 a night — plus which four have added EV chargers since 2024.
The good news: Springfield is not Nashville
Every hotel in Springfield and the surrounding Goodlettsville-Rivergate corridor offers free self-parking. Every single one. This is the single biggest reason travellers doing a Nashville-area trip base themselves here — a Nashville downtown hotel charges $35 to $55 per night for parking on top of an already-inflated room rate, and Springfield saves you the parking fee entirely. Over a three-night stay a family can save $105 to $165 just on parking by staying twenty minutes north.
There's no valet in Springfield, no garage parking with hourly rates, no residential permit zones near the hotels. You pull up, park, and walk in. That's it. This article exists because families searching hotels with free parking in Springfield deserve to know they’re all free, but the more useful question — which have EV chargers — has a shorter and more interesting answer that's changed rapidly in the last twelve months.
Which four hotels now offer EV charging
As of January 2026, four Springfield-area hotels have installed on-site EV chargers: Hampton Inn Springfield (one dual Level 2 unit added October 2025), Home2 Suites Goodlettsville (two Level 2 units, added 2024), TownePlace Suites Rivergate (two Level 2 units, added 2023), and Best Western Plus Rivergate (one Level 2 unit, added 2024). All four charge no fee for guest use — you plug in with your own card or the hotel's app depending on the network.
The Hampton and Home2 use ChargePoint networks. TownePlace uses a Marriott EV setup that requires guest room verification at the pedestal. Best Western uses a simpler independent station. None of these have DC fast charging — you’re doing Level 2 overnight, which is fine for a hotel stay but not useful for a one-hour top-up. If you need DC fast, the Electrify America station in Rivergate on Long Hollow Pike is a five-minute drive from any of these four hotels.
Hampton Inn Springfield — the in-town EV pick
For EV drivers who want to sleep in Springfield proper, Hampton Inn is the only game in town. The single dual charger on the east side of the building serves two cars simultaneously and I’ve stayed twice without finding it occupied — the EV traveller flow through Springfield isn’t yet heavy enough to create competition. Rates $130 to $155. Sign up for Hilton Honors before booking to make the charging free without a per-kWh fee.
One practical note: the parking lot slopes noticeably east-to-west and the charger sits at the low end. In heavy rain that corner floods for about ninety minutes and cars park up on the higher curb instead. Not a deal-breaker, just a heads-up if you arrive in a Tennessee downpour. The dual charger delivers about 25 to 30 miles of range per hour, so a full overnight brings most EVs from 20 percent to 90 percent easily.
Home2 Suites Goodlettsville — best combined EV + family
Home2 pairs two chargers with the best family suites in the area, which makes it the answer for EV-driving families almost by default. Both chargers are Level 2 ChargePoint, sit under a covered canopy which matters in Tennessee summer sun and winter ice, and are free to guests. Rates $135 to $175. You arrive after a road trip, plug in, walk to your two-room suite, and start dinner in the kitchenette. That's a good travel day.
Occupancy on the chargers runs higher here than at the Hampton because Home2 attracts more road-trip families, and Marriott-loyalty EV drivers cluster at TownePlace next door. On weekends I’d suggest arriving before 6pm to guarantee a spot; after that you may need to wait for the morning turnover or use the Electrify America down the road as backup.
TownePlace Suites Rivergate — the Marriott EV option
TownePlace has the most established EV setup at two years old and the Marriott loyalty crowd knows it. Two chargers, both Level 2, both free to guests, with a small covered pull-through that fits pickups towing a small trailer if you unhitch. Rates $145 to $205 for the two-bedroom suites. This is the pick for extended-stay EV travellers — the property is set up for people staying five nights or more and the charging routine fits naturally.
The catch: the pedestal software occasionally requires you to log in through the Marriott app at check-in to authorise your car, which trips up first-time guests. Ask at the front desk on arrival and they’ll walk through it. Once set up it works fine for the rest of the stay. Guests report zero downtime on the chargers over six months of stays.
Free parking for RVs, trucks and trailers
If you’re driving a pickup with a boat trailer, a small RV, or a work truck with a lockable bed, parking gets more nuanced. La Quinta Goodlettsville has the largest lot with pull-through spots at the back that fit a truck-plus-trailer combo without repositioning. Red Roof similarly accommodates. Holiday Inn Express and Hampton in Springfield are tighter — you can park a pickup fine, but a trailer means taking two spots and asking permission first.
For genuine RV parking, Springfield's hotels aren’t the answer — the Robertson County Fairgrounds occasionally rents overnight RV spots at $25 to $40 for events, and Bledsoe Creek State Park (30 minutes east) has proper RV sites with hookups at $28 nightly. Hotel lots are for cars and light trucks; if you’re bigger than that, plan around it before booking.
What to book and what the parking situation means for your trip
For EV drivers ranked: Home2 Suites Goodlettsville first, TownePlace Rivergate second, Hampton Inn Springfield third for in-town needs, Best Western Plus Rivergate fourth. For non-EV drivers the parking situation is a non-issue — book on room quality and price alone and treat free parking as universal. Which it is, and which represents about $100 in real savings over any equivalent downtown Nashville stay.
Every booking through this site includes the one-tonne carbon offset, which paired with an EV stay in Springfield genuinely delivers a low-footprint trip. The offset covers roughly the emissions of a five-hour drive plus three nights of hotel electricity for a couple, so if you’ve plugged in an EV overnight you’re already ahead of the baseline. Book direct, confirm charger status if it's core to your trip because equipment does get taken offline for updates, and enjoy the small-town parking that actually works.
Before you book
The questions people ask about Goodlettsville, answered with this month’s numbers.
No — every hotel in Springfield, Goodlettsville and Rivergate offers free self-parking as of 2026. This is one of the biggest cost differences versus staying in Nashville proper, where downtown hotel parking runs $35 to $55 per night. Springfield is genuinely a free-parking market across all price tiers.
None have Tesla Destination chargers as of 2026 — all four EV-equipped hotels use J1772 Level 2 chargers on ChargePoint, Marriott's EV network, or independent systems. Tesla drivers need the standard J1772 adapter that ships with the car. The nearest Tesla Superchargers are in Rivergate and downtown Nashville.
Yes at all four properties. Hampton, Home2, TownePlace and Best Western Plus all include Level 2 charging at no per-kWh fee for registered guests. Some networks require app registration but the electricity itself is complimentary. Non-guests are typically not permitted to use hotel chargers.
Not in Springfield itself, but the Electrify America station in Rivergate on Long Hollow Pike is a fifteen-minute drive south and offers 150kW-plus charging. This works well as a top-up before continuing north on I-65 or as a backup if hotel Level 2 chargers are occupied on peak weekends.
