Location, maps, parking (2024)

Online mapping status.

• Google Maps has corrected their mapping and nowcorrectly maps to "Smith Career Center."
  (also called "The Garnett E. and Patsy T. Smith Career Center")
  Google map to Smith Career Center.
• MapQuest does not recognize "Smith Career Center," but will accurately map to "Career and Professional Development."
  
• Please use the information we provide on this page to help you with navigating and parking.

Smith Career Center closest parking: Coliseum Lot

• Congested area on weekdays around 5:00 pm.
• Closed to parking during home basketball games (schedules on Hokie Sports.com).
• Across from Smith Career Center accessible from Washington Street or Beamer Way.
• Entrance is 440 feet from traffic roundabout traveling east.
• You can Google Map to "Coliseum Parking Lot Sbnd, Blacksburg, VA"

Parking when Coliseum Lot is full or off-limits due to athletic events
See HokieSports.com for schedules.

• Lots behind Life Sciences 1 and Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech.
• Bounded by and accessible from Duck Pond Drive and Washington Street.
• You can Google Map to "Life Science Circle, Blacksburg, VA"
• Entrance is 0.1 mile from traffic roundabout traveling west.

The university requires all vehicles parked on campus to display a parking permit, or utilize the ParkMobile app.

• For complete and accurate information, see Visitor Parking, and ParkMobile provided by Parking Servicesto pay for parking on campus.

Career and Professional Development has no authority over campus parking and cannot void parking tickets.

To reach Prices Fork Road and The Inn and the Visitor Center:

• Seedirections to Virginia Tech..

Note that except at traffic lights with pedestrian crossing signals, vehicles should stop for pedestrians at crosswalks on campus.

Option: Parking in Coliseum Lot
This is a very congested area on weekdays around 5:00 pm.
Coliseum Lot is closed to evening parking during home basketball games. See Hokie Sports.comfor schedules.

1. From The Inn or Visitor Center:
   1. Exit at main entrance by turning right onto Prices Fork Road; go 0.2 mile; at traffic light use right turn lane that feeds directly onto West Campus Drive; travel 0.8 mile to next point.
      OR
   2. Use west-side entrance/exit for The Inn to turn right onto West Campus Drive; travel 0.7 mile to next point.
2. West Campus Drive ends at the roundabout (traffic circle) where it meets Washington Street (Smith Career Center on your left at that intersection). Follow the roundabout to second exit onto Washington Street, eastbound.
3. Travel 0.1 mile to first right into Coliseum lot.
4. See Visitor Parking for accurate and up-to-date information on types of parking spaces you may use, and seePark Mobile for payment.
   
5. Smith Career Center is across Washington St. from Coliseum lot.
6. Main reception desk on first floor.
   Employers conducting interviews may come directly to second floor reception desk.

Option: Parking in Litton-Reaves lot when Coliseum Lot is full or restricted for athletic events:
See Hokie Sports.comfor schedules.

1. Same as above.
2. From roundabout take first right exit onto Washington Street westbound.
3. Travel 0.1 mile to take the first right into the lots behind Litton-Reaves and Life Science 1.
4. Same as above.
5. Smith Career Center is across West Campus Drive from Litton-Reaves.
6. Same as above.

Note that except at traffic lights with pedestrian crossing signals, vehicles should stop for pedestrians at crosswalks on campus.

Enter Southgate Drive from exit ramps from Route 460.

To Litton-Reaves parking lot when Coliseum Lot is full or closed for basketball game parking:
See HokieSports.com for schedules.

1. On Southgate Drive, follow signage to Duck Pond Drive.
2. Travel 0.3 mile; turn right at 4-way stop onto Washington Street.
3. Travel 335 feet and turn left onto Life Sciences Circle to the lots behind Litton-Reaves and Virginia Biocomplexity Institute. This is the Litton-Reaves lot shown on parking locations (see campus parking lot map).
4. See Visitor Parking for accurate and up-to-date information on types of parking spaces you may use, and see Park Mobile for payment.
5. Smith Career Center is across West Campus Drive from Litton-Reaves.
6. Main reception desk on 1st floor.
   Employers conducting interviews may come directly to 2nd floor reception desk.

To Coliseum Lot, via Duck Pond Drive:

1. Same as above.
2. Same as above.
3. At 0.2 mile, at traffic circle/roundabout continue straight to stay on Washington Street; travel 0.1 mile; turn right into Coliseum lot.
4. Same as above.
5. Smith Career Center is across Washington Str. from Coliseum lot.
6. Same as above.

To Coliseum Lot via Beamer Way:

1. On Southgate Drive, continue to intersection with Beamer Way.
2. Turn left at traffic light onto Beamer Way. [Lane Stadium will then be to your right on Beamer Way.]
3. Travel 0.2 mile; turn left into Coliseum lot [across from Lane Stadium gates].
4. Same as above.
5. Same as above.
6. Same as above.