Traffic and parking information for the Hilltop Campus

Information on parking will be added to this web page as it becomes known. Because traffic and parking arrangements are subject to change, please refer to this web page routinely before making final travel plans to and from the campus on Oct. 16 and 17.

Members of the media: Visit this page for special parking instructions and other media-specific information.

TRAFFIC

Big Bend will be closed, between Forsyth and Millbrook, to pedestrian and vehicle traffic on Oct. 17 after the morning rush hour (approx. 8:30 a.m.). Big Bend will remain closed until after the debate.

Northbound Big Bend between Wydown and Forsyth will be closed to vehicle traffic no later than 11 a.m., Oct. 17, and will remain closed until after the debate.

Forsyth will be closed, between Olympian Way and Big Bend, to general vehicle traffic no later than 11 a.m., Oct. 17, and will remain closed until after the debate. Traffic will only be permitted on Forsyth from Skinker. Vehicles with debate parking permits or credentials may enter campus at a vehicle checkpoint at Forsyth and Skinker. Lot 47 in front of the Music Building will be used as a turnaround in front of the barricades at Olympian Way.

The Shepley Drive entrance to the South 40 will be closed all day on Oct. 17. All South 40 traffic will enter from Wydown. A two-way traffic plan for Shepley will be in effect that day.

Major arteries in the vicinity may be blocked periodically on Oct. 17 when the motorcades of the presidential candidates arrive and depart from the Washington University Athletic Complex. The times of these interruptions usually are not announced in advance, so motorists are urged to take alternate routes that day.

PARKING

The university has leased 1,000 spaces in a secure lot at the Municipal Opera in Forest Park for Oct. 16 and 17. The upper lot will accommodate the media, and the lower lot is for faculty, staff and students. Shuttles will take parkers from the Muny to the Brookings Hall steps. The lot will open for media at 4 a.m. (CST) on Oct. 17, with shuttle service. Shuttle service will begin at 7 a.m. (CST) on Oct. 17 for Washington University faculty, staff and students. Detailed driving directions to Forest Park and a park map showing the location of the 650-space media parking lot can be downloaded by clicking here.

Parking will be available in the North and South Brookings lots, Millbrook Garage and, for staff of the Alumni House and the Music Department in Arts & Sciences, in the Wohl Garage on the South 40, space permitting. The Alumni House lot will close at midnight, Oct. 16. 150 spaces at the east end of the South Brookings lot, and 250 spaces at the east end of the North Brookings lot, will be closed on Oct. 17.

The lot east of the Athletic Complex will be closed from 6:30 a.m. Oct. 9 through the debate. It will be available only to vendors and contractors.

The small lot north of the Athletic Complex will close at midnight Oct. 9 to make room for an Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. tent. Anheuser-Busch is the official sponsor of this year's debates.

Olympian Way from the Francis Field gate to the School of Law will close at midnight Oct. 15. Parking will still be available adjacent to Simon Hall until midnight Oct. 16, when all lots in the vicinity will be closed.

Goldfarb Hall parking lots will be closed at 4 p.m. Oct. 17 for an alumni event. (Cars will be towed if necessary.)

Any unauthorized cars remaining in closed lots will be removed.

SHUTTLES

There will be no shuttle service between Wohl and Mallinckrodt Centers on Oct. 17 and the Lewis Center route will stop at 12:30 p.m. All remaining shuttles will begin and end at the Brookings Hall steps.