Commencement 2008 - Directions and Parking




					University lots will be open to the public from 4:00 pm Friday, May 23, through Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day). For locations of all University lots, click here. Satellite parking with wheelchair-accessible shuttle service to Old Campus will be available on the morning of Commencement from 7:30 to 9:45 from the Prospect Street parking garage located behind Ingalls Rink hockey arena. Directions are given below. Please note that, while the Prospect Street garage will be open to the public over Commencement weekend, shuttle service will be offered on Monday only. Cars with valid handicapped tags or license plates will be accommodated on a first-come basis in Yale Lot 51 behind Hendrie Hall. Click here for directions. For information on ground transportation, including train schedules, airport shuttles and car rentals, click here.

					From I-91, take exit 3, Trumbull Street. Stay in middle lane as exiting and continue straight on Trumbull until it ends at Prospect Street, at fifth light. Take right on Prospect. Just beyond first light, turn left into garage entrance. Attendants will be on hand.

					From Interstate 95, north or south Take exit for I-91 North toward Hartford-Springfield. Continue for a short distance on I-91 to Exit 3, Trumbull Street. Stay in the middle lane as exiting and continue straight on Trumbull Street. At fourth stoplight, turn left onto Prospect Street. At intersection of Prospect and Grove Streets, Prospect becomes College Street; Woolsey Hall rotunda may be seen on the right. Proceed on College Street, past Wall and Elm Streets until the middle of the next block. The Phelps Archway entrance to Old Campus is in the middle of block, opposite the New Haven Green. From Route 15, (Wilbur Cross/Merritt Parkways) From north: Take Exit 61. Drive south on Whitney Avenue for approximately five miles. Turn right on Sachem Street at the Peabody Museum traffic light. Continue to next traffic light at Prospect Street and turn left. Proceed until Prospect Street becomes College Street at the Woolsey Hall Rotunda. Follow directions above. From south: Take exit 57. Drive east on Route 34 (Derby Avenue) for approximately five miles past the Yale athletic fields. Take left onto Route 10 North (Ella T. Grasso Boulevard.) Proceed to fifth traffic light and turn right onto Whalley Avenue. Continue straight for 1.3 miles. Whalley becomes Broadway, and Broadway becomes Elm Street. Commencement guests may be dropped off at the corner of Elm Street and High Street, with entrance to Old Campus on High Street. You may also proceed on Elm Street to College Street. Turn right and proceed to Phelps gate. From Route 34 From west: Follow directions from Route 34 above.