ADA Parking Striping in Bend, Oregon: Bringing Your Lot Up to Code

Restriping a Bend Lot to ADA Standards

In Bend, most ADA parking problems come down to striping — stalls painted too narrow, access aisles without their hatching, and wheelchair symbols faded by the high-desert sun and scoured by winter sanding. Restriping is the step that turns a non-compliant Deschutes County lot into a compliant one, and for most owners it is the most cost-effective correction available.

This page covers what ADA-compliant striping involves in Bend. For the legal backdrop, see our Oregon ADA parking compliance pillar; for the dimension and paint specs statewide, our Oregon ADA striping requirements for 2026 guide goes into detail.

What an ADA-Compliant Stripe Job Includes

A correct accessible stall means getting all of these right:

• Stall width: at least 8 feet for a standard accessible space; 8 feet for a van stall with the wider aisle, or 11 feet with a 5-foot aisle.
• Access aisle: 5 feet wide for car stalls, 8 feet for van stalls, with diagonal hatching and ideally "NO PARKING" lettering.
• The symbol: the International Symbol of Accessibility in each stall, white on blue.
• Borders and contrast: blue outlines that stay legible on fresh, dark asphalt.

The access aisle is the part Bend owners most often misjudge — and snow makes it worse, because an aisle that disappears under a plow berm stops doing its job. The aisle is the transfer zone a wheelchair user needs beside the vehicle, and it must connect to an accessible route to the entrance. Our ADA access aisle striping spec covers the hatching and shared-aisle rules.

Layout Before Paint

The most valuable step in a Bend ADA restripe comes before the paint: confirming the layout is correct. Many Bend lots in the fast-growing commercial corridors were striped quickly during build-out and traced over since, carrying forward outdated counts and aisle widths. A proper layout pass checks the accessible count against the total, confirms the one-in-six van ratio, verifies aisle widths and placement, and positions stalls on the shortest accessible route to the entrance.

Paint, Climate, and Durability in Bend

Bend's climate is the toughest in this region for parking-lot paint, and durability is squarely a compliance issue here because a faded accessible symbol can be cited as a violation. The high elevation — roughly 3,600 feet — brings intense UV that bleaches paint faster than valley sun, and winter sanding operations physically grind at markings all season.

That combination pushes Bend owners toward longer-lasting materials more than anywhere else in the state. Oil-based traffic paint adheres better than latex, and thermoplastic markings — several times the cost — can hold three to five years even with sanding and heavy traffic, which often pencils out given how short Bend's repaint window is.

Timing is critical in Bend. The high-desert striping season is short — paint needs dry pavement and temperatures above 50°F, and Bend's cold shoulders compress that to roughly late spring through early fall. Booking the work for the summer window is not optional here; it is the only reliable time to get a durable bond before winter returns.

Restriping After Sealcoat

Bend owners often pair an ADA restripe with a sealcoat, and the order matters: sealcoat first, cure, then stripe onto the clean dark surface for maximum contrast and adhesion. A fresh sealcoat is the ideal moment to correct an ADA layout because the old lines are gone — a blank slate to fix counts, widen aisles, and reposition van stalls without fighting old paint. With Bend's short season, bundling the two into one summer mobilization is also more efficient.

Striping Your Bend Lot Right

Whether you are reviving fading markings or rebuilding a non-compliant layout, ADA striping in Bend means measuring the lot, confirming the layout against current standards, and applying durable paint inside the short dry-season window. A site visit pins down exactly what your lot needs and when it has to happen.

Cojo Excavation & Asphalt stripes commercial lots across Bend, Redmond, and Central Oregon. See our Bend parking lot striping overview, explore our professional striping services, or request a free quote and we will measure and plan a compliant layout.