Getting Here
GPS Navigation: Our street address is 100 Old Mason Farm Road. (Please note that this is NOT a mailing address. See bottom of this page for mailing and shipping addresses.) GPS Coordinates are: 35.901081 N lat., 79.031939 W long.
For directions/parking for our other public areas—Battle Park, Coker Arboretum, Mason Farm Biological Reserve—click on the "Gardens & Natural Areas" tab above. At the bottom of this page you will find information on travel by bus, bicycle, and as a pedestrian.
From Interstate 40
If you are traveling West (from Raleigh), take Exit 273A, and turn onto Hwy 54 West toward Chapel Hill (also called Raleigh Rd). Go 2.9 miles to the right-hand ramp to Fordham Blvd. SOUTH (also labeled as US 15-501S/NC 54W). Turn Right onto Fordham Blvd. (traffic light). Next, see "From Fordham Blvd." directions, below . . .
If you are traveling East (from Greensboro/ Burlington), take Exit 270 to US 15-501 South. Turn Right onto US 15-501 South and continue into Chapel Hill. It is 4.4 miles to the traffic light at Old Mason Farm Rd,, where you turn Left (this is the first traffic light after NC 54 merges with US 15-501). See next paragraph: "From Fordham Blvd."
From Fordham Blvd.:
Traveling South: Turn Left at the traffic light at Old Mason Farm Road. Parking lot entrance is almost immediately on your RIGHT, just past the sign (there is an overflow lot as well). Follow signs for walking to the Display Gardens & Totten Center and the Nature Trails. Note: If this parking area is full, please go back out to Fordham Blvd. Turn Left and go to next traffic light (at Manning Dr.). Turn Left there. The street soon merges with Coker Drive (coming in on your right). Make your first left into driveway (former Laurel Hill Rd) for NCBG staff entrance. There is parking along one side of the road on gravel. You will have to enter site through pedestrian gates in the deer fence.
From the West or South on NC 54 (from Carrboro) or
US 15-501 (from Pittsboro)
Continue onto Fordham Blvd. (US 15-501 merges with NC 54). Turn Right at the Old Mason Farm Rd. traffic light. Parking lot entrance is almost immediately on your RIGHT, just past the sign (there is an overflow lot as well). Follow signs for walking to the Display Gardens & Totten Center and the Nature Trails. Note: If this parking area is full, please go back out to Fordham Blvd. Turn Left and go to next traffic light (at Manning Dr.). Turn Left there. The street soon merges with Coker Drive (coming in on your right). Make your first left into driveway (former Laurel Hill Rd) for NCBG staff entrance. There is parking along both sides of the road on gravel.
Parking and Map
Please see our updated PARKING MAP. The map indicates disabled-accessible parking, but please also read the sidebar at right.
Visiting by Bus, Bicycle, or On Foot
The Garden is served by Chapel Hill Transit's S and HU bus routes. The S route has a stop on Fordham Blvd at Old Mason Farm Rd. The HU route takes riders between UNC Hospitals and the Hwy 54 Park & Ride Lot, with several stops between. Visitors to the Garden disembark and board at the Ronald McDonald House stop, which is on Old Mason Farm Road almost directly across the street from the Garden's parking lot entrance. Please see the schedule and route map.
Pedestrians and Bicyclists: Access to the Garden is now easier and safer as a result of recent sidewalk construction and intersection improvements at Fordham Blvd., including pedestrian-activated traffic signals and marked crosswalks at all four sides of the Old Mason Farm Rd/Fordham Blvd intersection, and at two sides (southern and western) of the Manning Dr/Fordham Blvd intersection. Bikes are also able to activate signals on the side streets. As always, please use caution when crossing these very busy intersections.
Last updated by NCBG Editor on December 15, 2011 at 01:57:10 am.
