Parking and Directions

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For your safety, please follow street and pedestrian detour signs and allow plenty of  time for travel.  

Patients and visitors of patients can park for free at two locations:

• VCU Medical Center's Patient and Visitor Parking Deck at 12th and Leigh Streets is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
• Children's Pavilion Parking Deck at 10th and Broad Streets

Parking tickets must be validated at one of the following locations:

• Critical Care Hospital, Ground Floor Information Desk, 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.
• Children's Pavilion, First Floor Sky Lobby, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

New hourly rates for non-validated parking. Fees can be paid by cash or credit card. 

• $2.00 up to 2 hours
• $4.00 up to 4 hours
• $8.00 up to 6 hours
• $12.00 up to 8 hours
• $25.00 8 hours or more
• Lost ticket $25.00

• Gateway open at 5 a.m.
• Ambulatory Care Center open at 5:30 a.m.
• Adult Outpatient Pavilion open at 6:30 a.m.

VCU Security Services provide free inter-campus and intra-campus walking escorts or transportation to ensure safe arrival at your campus destination. This service operates on the MCV Campus from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. each day. Patients and visitors are encouraged to call VCU Security Services for an escort or transportation when needed, at (804) 828-WALK.

550 N. 12th Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Arriving by I-64 West from Williamsburg:

• Take Exit 190 for 5th Street/Downtown/Coliseum
• Turn left onto E. Marshall St.
• Turn left onto 11th St.
• Turn right onto E. Leigh St.
• Turn right onto 12th St.
• Turn left into the Patient and Visitor Parking Deck

Arriving by I-64 East from Charlottesville:

• Follow I-64 East and merge with I-95 South
• Take I-95 South to Exit 74C for W. Broad St.
• Turn right onto 11th St.
• Turn right onto E. Leigh St.
• Turn right onto 12th St.
• Turn left into the Patient and Visitor Parking Deck

Arriving by I-95 North from Petersburg:

• Take Exit 74C for W. Broad St.
• Turn right onto 11th St.
• Turn right onto E. Leigh St.
• Turn right onto 12th St.
• Turn left into the Patient and Visitor Parking Deck

Arriving by I-95 South from Fredericksburg:

• Take Exit 74C for W. Broad St.
• Turn right onto 11th St.
• Turn right onto E. Leigh St.
• Turn right onto 12th St.
• Turn left into the Patient and Visitor Parking Deck

Arriving by U.S. Route 60 from Lexington:

• Follow U.S. Route 60 East, cross over the Manchester Bridge and merge onto 9th St.
• Continue for about two miles and turn left onto E. Leigh St.
• Turn right onto 12th St.
• Turn left into the Patient and Visitor Parking Deck

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