An electric vehicle charging station parking block. In one aspect, the parking block includes a top surface and a bottom surface. The bottom surface is configured to be closer to the ground than the top surface when the parking block is in an installed state. The parking block has a cord channel defined at a location within the parking block that is between the top surface and the bottom surface. The cord channel is a void configured to accept a cord that connects an electric vehicle (EV) charger to an EV charging port configured to physically connect to an EV.