Wedding Day, Directions, Parking And Map
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G
eneral Parking Information:
 

Only 505 parking spaces are available for scheduled events on weekends in the following parking lots:
  • Lot Y-113 spaces
  • Lot L-135 spaces
  • Lot C1-170 spaces
  • Lot C2-87 spaces

Weekday Parking: Parking during business hours for each of these lots is restricted. All weekday parking should be at the meters in front and behind Memorial Chapel. Parking meters require payment M-F 7AM-10PM. Unpaid parking meters will be ticketed; these tickets are not subject to appeal.

Handicap Access:
Many handicap parking spaces are located in the vicinity of the chapel. A grade-level entrance to the West Chapel is in the garden behind the chapel. The Main Chapel has ramped access through north side entrance. Accessible rest rooms are available via the north side entrance.

Wedding Parking: If you hold your reception on campus, your guests' vehicles must be driven to the reception location in order to ensure Chapel-area parking for the next wedding or event. Wedding parties/guests may not park in Lots A, B, D or W, areas for the disabled, fire lanes, service or courier parking spaces. Parking in any of these areas may result in a parking ticket. You are responsible to so notify your wedding party and guests.

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edding Guest Parking:

NOTE: If Lot Y is filled…

  • Exit the lot at the barrier (which rises automatically as you approach it)
  • Turn right onto Chapel Drive
  • Turn left at Regents Drive
  • Take the first right into Lot L or continue in Lot L to the first right giving you access to Lot C2 or Lot C1 to your left

What if your wedding is on a "game day?"
While athletic schedules are made months in advance, the actual game time often isn't scheduled until a few weeks before the event; start times are often determined by the television network carrying the game. Couples will be notified of football and basketball home games as soon as the schedules are set. We recommend that guests are sent the following alternate directions and parking information to help them avoid game traffic delays.

Game Day Directions to Memorial Chapel: Click here for directions

 (see the game schedules here


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Directions To Chapel:

From Capital Beltway (I-95/495)

  • Exit 25, (or Exit 27 if coming from Baltimore)
  • Go 2.5 miles south on US 1, past Campus Drive, toward downtown College Park
  • Turn right onto campus at Regents Drive, just before the downtown business district
  • Memorial Chapel will be on the corner of Regents and Chapel Drive
  • Turn left on Chapel Drive
  • Turn left at the dead end and enter Lot Y (Do not park in Lot W)

See this section of the campus map

Highway Map:

 

Main Chapel: Guests attending a wedding in the Main Chapel will use the front entrance

West Chapel: Guests parking in Lot Y will see the West Chapel garden entrance at the back of the chapel.

Need help on your way to the Chapel?
Call (301) 314-9866.

Deliveries: Vendors making wedding deliveries should park along the north side of the chapel and come in the side entrance.

Limousines: Drivers are allowed to wait at the front curb with flashers on during the ceremony.

Carriages, Buses, etc: Please call the Scheduling Office at (301) 314-9866 to make arrangements.

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Last Updated February 9, 2006

Questions, comments, and suggestions can be sent to Chapel@umd.edu

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