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Hours, Directions and Maps
Current Status of Access to Fermilab
Hours
Fermilab's site is open to the public every day of the week from 8:00 a.m.
to 6:00 p.m. from mid-October to mid-April and from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
when daylight hours are longer. Fermilab visitors are allowed to visit two
buildings on their own:
the first and ground floor of Wilson Hall and the Lederman Science Center,
which is open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. and on Saturday from 9:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. (Please call (630)840-8258 to check on holiday hours or check the Lederman
Science Center website. Groups
of six or more must book a visit by calling the Center.) A map of Fermilab's Public Areas is available online.
How to enter Fermilab
Visitors may enter Fermilab through the Pine Street or the Batavia
Road entrances. After presenting identification, most visitors will
simply pass through the security checkpoint after telling the security
officer the purpose for their visits. Roadways that are off limits to
visiting members of the public are posted with signs, and motorists
will be given site maps to guide them to the public areas.
The Fermilab Security Plan identifies certain workspaces as "Property Protection
Areas." (see map)
Fermilab ID badges are required for entry into these areas. If a visitor needs
to enter a Property Protection Area in order to conduct business at the lab
or to meet with someone who works at the lab, he or she must obtain a
temporary visitor's pass at the Pine Street entrance and wear it while
inside the Property Protection Area.
Directions to Fermilab
Fermilab's main entrance is located at the intersection of Kirk Road and
Pine Street in Batavia, Illinois, about 45 miles West from Chicago. Delivery
trucks need to use the entrance at Kirk Road and Wilson Street.
From Chicago
From Chicago, travel west on the Eisenhower (I-290) to I-88 (80 cents)
Exit I-88 at the Farnsworth exit, north or right (60 cents).
Farnsworth becomes Kirk Road. Follow Kirk Road to Pine Street. Turn right at Pine Street, Fermilab's main entrance.
From O'Hare Airport
From O'Hare, take I-90 east toward Chicago. After just a couple of miles, take I-294 south, toward Indiana (80 cents)
From I-294 take the exit to I-88, the east-west tollway, toward Aurora (80 cents).
From I-88, take the Farnsworth exit (60 cents). Turn north onto Farnsworth.
Farnsworth becomes Kirk Road. Follow Kirk Road to Pine Street. Turn right on Pine Street, the Main Entrance to Fermilab. Come to Wilson Hall, the High Rise, you'll see it sticking up off the prairie.
From Midway Airport
Take Cicero Avenue North to the Stevenson Expressway South (I-55) to I-355 North (toward Northern Suburbs).
Take I-355 to the East-West tollway (I-88).
Take I-88 West for approximately 10 miles to the Farnsworth North Exit and turn right.
Travel 2.9 miles to the Pine Street entrance to the Fermilab site.
Fermilab maps
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