Arizona State University Map Guide

Arizona State University is bordered by four roads:

West Side: Mill Avenue has stores, bars, restaurants and other entertainment north of campus and some closer ones across the street from campus.

North Side: University Drive features several restaurants and bookstores across the street from campus, some shopping, several dormitories, the stadiums and the bulk of student parking as you go further north.

East Side: Rural Road features some restaurants, a student bookstore more housing and many apartment complexes which cater to students.

South Side: Apache Boulevard features a restaurant and hotel (which serves as overflow housing), the new Police station, and much more student housing.

Other roads of note:

Stadium runs east/west just north of University, separating the dorms from the stadiums. As you travel west on stadium, it becomes 5th Street (intersecting with Mill Ave.), and as you travel east, before you reach Rural Rd., it curves south and becomes McAllister.

McAllister runs north/south through campus, separating the parking structures and a dormitory from the rest of campus. McAllister runs through the east side of campus, all the way south to the southernmost dormitories. At the northern end it curves west and becomes Stadium. Near Wells Fargo Arena, McAllister/Stadium intersects with 6th Street to the east, which runs east to Rural Rd. Fraternity housing is south of 6th Street and Alpha Drive cuts east to south through that area.

Forrest runs north of University and south into campus briefly, towards the west side of campus, right in front of the Architecture building (corner of Forrest and University). At the southern border of campus, Forrest runs north from Apache Blvd. between dormitories and Grady Gammage Auditorium, before curving west and becoming Gammage Parkway. Northern Forrest and Southern Forrest do not meet.

Myrtle Avenue runs south through campus from University, to the west of Forrest. It lies west of the Journalism, Art and Lattie Coor buildings before curving west, where it becomes 10th Street and intersects with Mill Avenue.

Tyler Street, Terrace Road and Lemon Street (east/west) allow access to McAllister from Rural Rd. on the east side of campus and all three terminate there. Only Lemon Street continues east of Rural Rd. Lemon St. appears again just to the south of the Business and Student Services Building and terminates at Forrest Ave. Terrace goes west of McAllister into the heart of campus (Orange Mall) but is generally not accessible to car traffic.

Normal Ave. runs north into campus and (south past Ocotillo Hall), passing a parking structure and the Student Rec Center, before effectively terminating at Lemon St. (There is road beyond Lemon St., but it is for Campus personnel only).

College Ave runs south from Lemon St. returning to Apache Blvd. It is one way south.

There is no way to cut through the center of campus by car, but you can shave off a portion north/south by taking McAllister on the east side of campus, and east/west by taking Gammage/Forrest or Gammage/Forrest/Lemon/Normal on the southeastern corner of campus.

A1 - North end of Mill Avenue - You will want to get acquainted with Mill Avenue because it has a lot of restaurants, shops, entertainment and bars.

A2 and A3 - "A" Mountain stands beside Sun Devil Stadium and has the great big Gold "A" on it. You can't miss it. Popular for hill climbs to the top (there's a paved road) and if you're in ROTC you will become intimately familiar with it. The new Light Rail system starts here for ASU (from NW Phoenix) and goes down through to E9 on the map (then east to Mesa).

A4 - Sun Devil Stadium, featuring football games and some events like concerts. Box office is right out front, get your season tickets now!

Note: Sun Devil Stadium is where President Obama will be speaking for the May 13th graduation ceremony.

A5 and A6 - Lot 59, a big parking lot and most likely yours, as well as Packard Stadium (Baseball) and Sun Angel Stadium (Track and Field).

A7 - Karsten Golf Course (public, but also the home course for ASU's Golf team) and Kajikawa Football Practice Fields.

A8 - Wrestling Training Facility

A9 - Nothing out there, just map.

B1 - The Brickyard on Mill, once full of loft apartments that never worked out, the Brickyard is now one of many buildings taken over by the University for a variety of purposes including classes and labs. Directly on Mill Avenue.

B2 and B3 - The University Towers Apartment Complex. You might be living here, but more importantly, the parking permit department is on the first floor. If you want parking on campus, you have to buy it there.

B4 - Mona Plummer Aquatic Center (Swimming and Diving Events) and the Stadium Parking Structure.

B5 - Wells Fargo Arena - The Basketball stadium, often used for other events including graduation.

B7 - Whiteman Tennis Center for ASU's Tennis pursuits. Also includes the marching band's practice fields.

B8 - Athletes Performance Center

B9 - Soccer Stadium, for, well, ASU Soccer.

C1 and C2 - More Mill Avenue and environs.

C3 - University Commons including Visitor Information Center

C4 - Palo Verde Residence Complex. Three dorms, West, East and Main housing mostly freshman, and in Main, the Sorority dormitories. The new Fulton Center is also here.

C5 - San Pablo and Manzanita Halls. San Pablo is the small prison-looking structure, while Manzanita is the tall skyscraper dormitory beside it.

C6 - Alpha Drive - A variety of Fraternity houses.

C7 and C8 - ASU Performing and Media Arts Building, tucked into the Cornerstone complex, formerly a movie theatre.

C9 - University Center - A variety of buildings with unknown and nefarious purposes (office buildings)

D1 - Part of the Tempe Center, once including a variety of shops including a great bookstore and a so-so supermarket, the buildings are owned by ASU and are occasionally used but with not much gusto. A few businesses linger there and exorbitant parking can be had.

D2 - The Tower Center, which includes ASU's local radio station, the College of Design (architecture), the art building (with several small galleries) and the art warehouse are here. There is also a parking structure here.

D3 - The Global Institute of Sustainability (ya got me), the Cowden Family Resources building (including day care), Anthropology building (they have a crazy new departmental name, too) and the Lyceum theatre (small student theatre).

D4 - Durham Language and Literature building, Old Main (the original structure on campus, now filled with offices), the University Club for fancy affairs, Health Services (on campus medical care), and the Piper house which housed University Presidents until 1959, and is a historic house and literary archive.

D5 - The sprawling Bateman Physical Sciences building (mathematics and labs), and the Goldwater Science and Engineering Center.

D6 - Urban Systems Engineering and North Psychology buildings.

D7 - Some administrative buildings with unknown purpose and the Tyler street parking structure.

E1 - The rest of the long and mostly unused Tempe Center.

E2 - Stauffer Hall home of the communication(s) and broadcasting school and PBS outlet KAET, Neeb Hall which is used for stage drama and as a movie theatre, Coor Hall - named after past President Lattie Coor, and Payne Hall, part of the School of Education. Other features include the Nelson Fine Arts center - a big art gallery, and the FAC, mostly used for drama and dance.

E3 - Matthews Hall, West Hall and Dixie Gammage Hall, formerly dormitories, now used for a variety of office and classroom purposes. McClintock Hall, the current but soon to be former Honor's residence hall, Matthew's Center - originally the campus's first library, is now the home of the State Press campus newspaper, Hayden's Ferry Review literary journal and the department for Disabled Student Resources. South of Matthews Center is the underground entrance to Hayden Library and Wilson Hall, mostly an administrative building.

E4 - Social Sciences buildings, the sprawling Life Sciences Complex and tall Life Sciences Tower, the bulk of Hayden Library in a 4 story structure, undergraduate academic building (counselors), Murdock Hall - a cavernous lecture hall).

E5 - The vast Engineering Center, including computer labs, Noble Science Library, and the Schwada Classroom building, consisting mostly of classroom space.

E6 - Psychology South and the LDS Institute.

E7 - The new Biodesign Institute, Ritter building (admin).

E8 - Cholla Apartments, a tall and deep apartment complex cut into dormitories for students.

F1 and F2 - More of Mill Avenue approaching the Apache curve, the Music building, Farmer Education building and part of the lot for Gammage Auditorium, where Broadway shows, musical performances and other theatre is conducted.

F3 - The Moeur building, Admin A and B (guess what goes on there!), Student Services which has a variety of, well, student services including the job co-op, and the Agriculture building.

F4 - The Memorial Union, the social and gastronomic hub of ASU once included a bar and movie theatre, but now contains several restaurants including the main cafeteria, an arcade and game room, small stage, some shopping, conference rooms, and on the third floor, clubs administration. Also in F4 are Physical Education West, the Computing Commons (largest student use computer site on campus), the Business buildings and tennis courts adjacent to the SRC intramural fields.

F5 - The rest of the intramural fields (soccer, baseball and multipurpose), the Bookstore, and Physical Education East.

F6 - Armstrong Hall, the Law building, and the Ross-Blakely Law Library nestled side by side. Also parking lot 44.

F7 - Mesquite, Acourtia and Verbena Halls, part of the Hassayampa Academic Village, and the Rural Road Parking Structure.

G1 and G2 - The rest of the Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium complex.

G3 - Best, Irish and Hayden Halls (dormitories).

G4 and G5 - Apache Boulevard Parking Structure and the SRC - the campus recreation complex including swimming pools, workout rooms, racquetball, weight rooms and workout/yoga/martial arts rooms.

G6 - Mohave, Acacia, Chuparosa, Jojoba and Arroyo Halls, the rest of the sprawling Hassayampa Academic Village.

G7 - The old location of the ASU DPS, now being constructed into Barrett College, soon to be the new Honor's College.

H4 - The new ASU Police Department building and Parking Lot 17E.

H5 - Ocotillo Residence Hall.

H6 and H7 - Along with I6, the new South Campus Residential Community, and the Adelphi Commons along Sunset Drive, the remainder of the Fraternity houses.

J7 - Sonora Center Residence Complex.

J8 and J9 - University Service Building (admin) and Material Services (among other things, ASU's mail depot).

This guide is for use with the standard paper map distributed at ASU for Main Campus.

Try these other options for navigating around ASU:

Interactive Campus Map - allows you to find individual buildings at the Main and satellite campuses.

Note: The following maps use a different number/letter orientation and are not for use with the above layout. Give them a moment to load.

ASU Campus Map(.pdf) - with legends and building designations.

ASU Campus Parking Map(.pdf) - with legends, but shows parking lot information instead of building designations.

Some buildings were built for one purpose, and were naturally changed as time went on and newer buildings were built.

Some buildings were branded with names from the past and they are honored on the front of these places.

Some buildings ceased to exist, but their memories remain.

The Matthews Center is named for Arthur John Matthews, who served as President of ASU from 1900-1930, and was the first in school history to have that title bestowed upon him. The building which bears his name was the original library, and now serves a variety of other functions, the primary library services going to Hayden Library.

Hayden Library is named for Charles Trumbull Hayden, Tempe's founder and one of the principals involved in founding ASU. Hayden Library is one of the largest campus libraries in the country.

The Mouer Building, which houses the Mars Space Flight Facility, provides research and materials for several NASA projects. The Moeur Building was built in 1939 as part of the WPA project and is the only adobe building on campus. It is named after Benjamin Baker Moeur, MD., who served as the official physician for the Arizona Territorial school, now known as Arizona State University as of 1958.

Stauffer Hall, home to the Communication and Broadcasting departments and PBS affiliate KAET as well as the campus radio station KASC, was built in 1973 and named for alumnus Charles A. Stauffer, former owner and publisher of the Arizona Republic and Phoenix Gazette newspapers. Two programs there also bear names - the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.

The Mona Plummer Aquatic Center, site of ASU's swimming and diving events, was opened in 1981 and dedicated to Mona Plummer, who coached swimming there for 22 years.

Sun Devil Stadium boasts Frank Kush field, dedicated to the fiery ASU football coach.

McClintock Hall at the center of campus was named for James H. McClintock, first ASU Alumni President and Arizona historian.

Irish Hall, built in 1940, honors Fred M. "Cap" Irish, one of the school's first science teachers who ran student activities for 45 years, including being the first football coach, athletic director and registrar.

The Honors College at ASU was created in 1988 and quickly rose to prominence and was repeatedly recognized for its quality. In 2000, Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel, and his wife Barbara, herself an ASU alumna, endowed the honors college and in return ASU bestowed their name upon the college.

Best Hall, part of the Irish/Best/Hayden complex, was named for M.O. Best, one of ASU's first members on the Board of Regents. Hayden residence hall is also named for Charles Trumbull Hayden.

As its name suggests, Wilson Hall was built in 1956 as a dormitory, but is now used for administrative purposes. George Washington Wilson owned the original 5 acres of land used to found Tempe Normal School (which grew to become ASU) in 1883.

Goldwater Center which serves Engineering, Physical Science and Liberal Arts, was built in 1992 and is named for Arizona Senator Barry M. Goldwater.

The Bateman Physical Sciences Center, is named for George M. Bateman who was the first faculty member with a doctoral degree, and was given the titanic task of developing the new school's entire science curriculum. He taught at ASU for 41 years, also helming the college Athletic Board that led to construction of Sun Devil Stadium and Packard Stadium.

Packard Stadium, built in 1974, was gifted to ASU by alumni Guthrie and Peter Packard as a tribute to their late father, William Guthrie Packard, a prominent member of the publishing industry who was active in Arizona church and community affairs.

Noble library, which serves Science and Engineering and contains the University's vast map collection, was dedicated to Dr. Daniel E. Noble, who was an inventor and innovator in Arizona, working with Motorola for over 30 years. He was known as the "Father of Arizona Industry".

Two buildings carry the name of Ira A. Fulton, ASU Alumnus and founder of Fulton Homes - The Ira A. Fulton Engineering Center and the new Fulton Center on University which houses the ASU Foundation (also dedicated to ASU Alumna Mary Lou Fulton).

Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium, built by Frank Lloyd Wright, was constructed in 1964 and honors former ASU President Dr. Grady Gammage who led the charge on the state legislature to have the Tempe Normal School officially named a state school - Arizona State University - in 1958.

Coor Hall was constructed shortly after former President Lattie F. Coor (12 years) left office. President-Emeritus Coor is still active in the School of Public Affairs at ASU.

There are some buildings that have ceased to be as well:

The Unstable Wind Tunnel - A staple for engineering students and a wonder to all other Sun Devils, it used to stand by itself on the NE section of campus, but is now gone.

Mariposa Hall has been supplanted by the new South Campus Residential Community.

Wells Fargo Arena was never torn down, but it used to be called the University Activity Center.

The old football stadium used to be where the SRC and intramural fields now stand.