Directions to the UML Recreation Center

The Recreation Center is a new athletic facility on the UMass Lowell campus.
The Center's home page is at http://www.uml.edu/campusrecreation/.

From Boston

• Take Mass Pike or Rt 2 West to Rt 128/95
• Take 128/95 North to Rt 3 North
• Take Rt 3 North to the Lowell Connector
• Continue with Lowell Connector directions below

From Rt 495

• Exit at 35C, the Lowell Connector
• Continue with Lowell Connector directions below

From New Hampshire, Rt 3

• Take Rt 3 South into Massachusetts
• Exit at 30A, which puts you on 495N
• Immediately take exit for Lowell Connector
• Continue with Lowell Connector directions below

From Southern NE (on Rt 95)

• Take Route 95 North to Rt 3 North
• Take Rt 3 North to the Lowell Connector
• Continue with Lowell Connector directions below

From Southern NE (on Rt 495)

• Take Rt 495 North
• Exit at 35C, the Lowell Connector
• Continue with Lowell Connector directions below

From Lowell Connector

• Just before the end of the Lowell Connector, take Exit 5B on the right, Thorndike St./Rt 3A.

• Get in middle lane, go straight, and start following signs for LaLecheur Park.

• Thorndike St. will turn into Dutton St as you pass landmarks like the American Textile History Museum and Haffner's Gas Station (“It Kicks!”) on your left.

• Continue, bearing LEFT when you come to Cobblestone's Restaurant (a smaller red brick building).

• You will come to a T-junction facing the Tsongas Arena. Take a LEFT onto Father Morissette Boulevard.

• On your right, pass the large red brick Wannalancit Mills building, and take an immediate RIGHT onto Cabot St.

• Go two blocks, then take a LEFT onto Perkins St.

• PARK IN THE LOT LABELED P2 ON THE MAP.

• The Recreation Center building is at the end of Perkins St. The entrance is in the crook of the "L" shape of the building, where the arrow is pointing on the map. The photo at the top of the page shows the entrance side of the building.