Getting to the Department:

• Directions to the University


• The Department is in the southwest part of campus in LeFrak Hall .
• The closest visitor parking facility is the the Mowatt Lane parking garage, at the corner of Preinkert Drive and Mowatt Lane.


• Click here for a detailed map and listing of every building on campus.
• To see Lefrak hall zoom in closer to this area of campus: in this image, #404 is Mowatt Lane Garage, #038 is LeFrak Hall, #975 is SCC Building 6 and #974 is SCC Building 5.


• From the Mowatt Lane Garage to LeFrak Hall: Walking out of the garage, turn left onto Preinkert Drive; then turn right so that South Campus Commons Building 5 will be on your left and 6 will be on your right. After you walk up a few stairs, turn left again and you will see the back of South Campus Dining Hall; walk toward the very long staircase on left of the Dining Hall. At the top of the staircase, LeFrak Hall will be in front of you.
  

 

Geography Research Space at Hartwick Building
Some of the Department's research activities are located in the Hartwick Building. This building is located just south of campus on Hartwick Road and offers visitor parking. The address is:
         Suite 209
         4321 Hartwick Road
         College Park, MD 20740

Click here for a map of getting from LeFrak to Hartwick.

Link to Campus Bus Schedules

Resources Located in the Washington, DC area
The department also is situated in an outstanding location for the pursuit of geographical studies, and students are encouraged to exploit this potential. The University of Maryland, within the Washington, DC area, is only is only eight miles (20 min.) from US Capitol building. The region contains incomparable library and research facilities, including the NASA Goddard Space Flight Facility, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Archives, and National Agricultural Library. Its location in the Baltimore-–Washington urban region provides students with the opportunities to examine first hand, the southern portion of Megalopolis. The proximity of the Appalachians, the Piedmont, and the Coastal Plain with the Chesapeake Bay offers additional research opportunities.