Find Parking Downtown (Tips and Tricks)
Find out where the garages are here: http://www.morgantown.com/parking-facilities.htm
Traffic gets rough around 3:30PM to 4:30PM. Come downtown around 5:00P.M, have a bite to eat, then visit MAC and Arts Mon to start your walk; these are the information centers for the event.
Morgantown Parking Tips:
1. Trying to find street parking is like playing the lottery- usually a waste of time.
Just head for the parking garages. Try to park in the garage on the corner of Spruce and Walnut Streets (it holds the police station) or aim for the garage on University Avenue and Chestnut Street (near Fayette Street). All parking garages are gated and accept Visa and MasterCard. Pay Station machines give almost no change so bring some singles. These garages hold 100s of spots, are pedestrian friendly, handicap accessible, and have big electronic signs showing how many spots are available.
2. All metered spaces are patrolled and ticketed 24 hours a day. Most meters are only 2 hours.
3. Pumping 2-hour meters with quarters after you have already spent 2 hours in that spot may result in getting a ticket.
The Cash Key prevents parking tickets
4. Most meters only take quarters. If you are a resident or newly moved to the community, purchase a cash key. (sometimes called a Meter Peter). Cash keys are rechargeable debit devices that work in all parking meters and cost $15-deposit, available at the Parking Authority Office (in the Public Safety Building at the Spruce Street Parking Garage). Cash keys are amazing and wonderful.
This is the only parking garage with 10-hour parking meters. Other garages have no meters. This is next to Black Bear Burritos across the street from Adventures Edge and 123 Pleasant Street.
5. The parking garage on Pleasant Street has ten hour meters and does not require getting a ticket and paying and at a pay station.
6. Red colored meters are totally safe and fine to park in during the Arts Walk. Just make sure there is not a Police Parking sign attached to it.
7. PARKING GARAGES ARE GREAT… PLEASE USE THEM and have a wonderful worry-free evening!
I would like to attend but am not completely familiar with Motown. I printed your map but cannot find the legend that corresponds with the numbers on the map, also the list of participants is 51 but the map numbers only go up to 32 so I don’t know if these two tools work together at all. Is there someplace I can find a map of who is participating?
For detailed information regarding the Morgantown Arts Walk depend on this site ArtsWalk.org.
I had to do some searching to figure out what you mean… I think you are looking at the “Map” link on Main Streets official site. This map an illustration of downtown and is not in any way a depiction of Arts Walk participants. Downtownmorgantown.com is the home page of the umbrella organization that is responsible for the Arts Walk. The only map linked to this site (artswalk.org) shows parking garages and is on the City of Morgantown’s parking Authority page.
There are no maps showing where participants are due to the intimate size and easily-walkable nature of downtown Morgantown…you can’t get lost. Over 60% the street level businesses in the downtown Morgantown are participating and are marked by lit tiki torches with Arts Walk flags. Currently we have 52 participants (as of yesterday) and they are all contained in this 8 block area (roughly). If you park in any of the city garages listed in this article then you are within 3 minutes walking distance of High Street. Volunteers will be at the parking garages to pass out brochure and assist you with directions. Also there will be two information carts/kiosks on High Street, one at the court house square and one at the northern top of High Street with volunteers to assist you. Monongalia Arts Center-MAC (which features some Victoria Banks products), is an information center and an event co-sponsor with Arts Monogahela.