Over 50 businesses and 70 artists come together once a year.

(Morgantown Parking and Arts Walk info centers- mapped above)

If you are not familiar with Morgantown, downtown can be daunting to navigate.  Do not be intimidated. Morgantown is mostly harmless… highly walkable, fun and always fresh.

Start the evening right by parking in a parking garage. They are cheap, safe, well lit and well-located, plus they take Visa and Mastercard.  You can read the parking tips article on this site for more information about parking.

Once you park in a garage, walk 1 block towards High Street (all garages are within one black of High Street). Then walk one-to-two blocks to Arts Monongahela (Arts Mon) or Monongalia Arts Center (MAC).

Arts Mon is located next to Huntington Bank, identified by its white marble late 1960s facade, on the corner of High Street and Pleasant Street. Arts Mon is a local art gallery and arts promoter.  If all else fails, look for the Arts Walk banner hanging across High Street. This banner is connected to the floor above Arts Mon’s office and gallery.

Monongalia Arts Center is West Virginia’s oldest independent Arts and Culture center and is home to M.T. Pockets Theatre as well as over 2,000 sq. ft. of gallery space.  MAC is easy to find, on the corner of High Street and Kirk Street.  If you are not from the Morgantown area, look up and over to locate the Hotel Morgan; it’s a tall building with a huge red neon sign next to a great looking Art Deco movie theater. MAC is next door to the Hotel Morgan. MAC is an impressive 15,000 sq. ft. Neoclassical stone building, and the only building in downtown with a lawn. Weather permitting, there are black tables and chairs on the sidewalk in front of it.  MAC also has free WiFi.

Both Arts Mon and MAC are information points for the Arts Walk and sponsors of the event.  From here you can get the inside scoop on where the artists are and what’s happening downtown, not to mention where to eat and where to play afterwards.

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If you are feeling more adventurous… just look for the black tiki torches all over downtown. Participating businesses and places with artists are marked by lit tiki torches like something out of Survivor.  The downtown area consists of Spruce Street, High Street, Chestnut Street, and Beechurst Ave, from the South High Street bridge to Willey Street.