Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)
Directions and Parking Information
Ashland Campus
Directions
Coming from the North on I-5, take Ashland exit 14 and turn right on Ashland Street. Turn left at light onto Walker Avenue. Turn right on Siskiyou Blvd., and then left on Frances Lane (at Starbucks). Go uphill holding to the left; OLLI classes are located in the Campbell Center at 655 Frances Lane on the right across from Grace Lutheran Church. If coming from the South on I-5, the same instructions apply, only turn left on Ashland Street. Or, Google the address and zip code 97520.
Parking
There is limited free parking in the immediate vicinity of OLLI. Members using street parking can expect a one to three block walk. Across the street from OLLI at the Grace Lutheran Church's upper parking lot (at the corner of Oregon and Frances) there are 28 parking spaces. Three of these spaces are reserved for handicapped members and five spaces behind the apartment complex for instructors on the day they are teaching. All members using the Grace Lutheran Church lot must display an OLLI parking permit which is available in the OLLI office.
An alternate choice is to purchase an SOU parking permit for $95/academic year at the Enrollment Services Center cashier windows in Britt Hall. This entitles members to park in a number of lots on the SOU campus. The lot most convenient to OLLI is in front of Cox Hall (see map below). Do not park on campus lots unless you have an SOU parking permit or your vehicle will be ticketed. Some campus parking lots, including the Cox Hall lot, have metered spaces.
Handicapped persons may opt to purchase a parking permit for $95/academic year and use Lot #15 (located behind the Campbell Center). OLLI provides handicapped parking on both sides of Campbell Center. These spaces require an OLLI Handicapped permit which can be obtained in the Office. Please note that one of these spaces also requires a DMV handicapped sticker. It is located at the end of the driveway to the right of Campbell Center.
Consult the map below for parking lot locations convenient to OLLI-SOU. For a map of the entire SOU campus, see: http://www.sou.edu/map/CampusMap.pdf.
Medford Campus
Directions
From the North on I-5, take Medford exit 30, Crater Lake Highway. Turn right at light on Crater Lake Highway. Turn left on Court Street. Turn left on Central. Turn left on East Eighth or Ninth to South Bartlett. From the South on I-5, take Medford exit 27, Barnett Road. At light turn right on Barnett Road. Turn right on Riverside. The HEC is bound by East Ninth, East Eighth, South Bartlett and Riverside. Or, Google the address and zip code 97501.
Parking
There is free on-street parking near the Higher Education Center, but it is limited to two hours. Free all-day parking is available at the Bear Creek South Lot to the east of the HEC (see map below: Lot #2, beneath I-5). The covered Middleford Parking Structure located at 6th Street and Riverside Avenue (Lot #15) and the Evergreen Parking Facility located at 34 West 8th Street (Lot #18) offer free 3-hour public parking and "Pay and Display" $2.00 all day parking. These latter options are about a two to three block walk.
Paid parking is available in Lots #3, #4 and #5 with coupons. Lot #3, located behind the Medford Library, is the closest to the HEC; there is free two hour parking and a single all-day pass costs $3 or $30 for 10 coupons. (Note that the Library is not open to the public on Thursday and Friday). Parking across from the library on South Central (Lot #4) costs $2 for all day. There is a Pay 'n' Park machine on the lot. Lot #5, which is across the street from Lot #4, costs $3 for all day. All-day parking tickets may be purchased from Action Parking at 14 North Central (Suite #103) from 11:00am to 1:00 pm.
Handicapped persons having a DMV placard hanging from their car mirror may park all day in parking lots and on the street in one, two and three-hour slots at no cost.
Download a parking map at http://www.downtownmedford.com/downloads/08_parking_brochure.pdf.
Additional information about parking near the Higher Education Center in Medford is available at the HEC website. Click here.
