Transportation and Parking for the 2010 CT Folk Festival & Green Expo
All 2010 CT Folk Festival & Green Expo events are at Edgerton Park, New Haven, on Whitney Avenue at Cliff St., on the New Haven/Hamden line. Rain venues are listed at the bottom of this page.
Directions to Edgerton Park
Edgerton Park — corner of Whitney Ave. and Cliff St. on the New Haven/Hamden line
Take Interstate 95 in Connecticut to Interstate 91. Take I-91 to Exit 6. Right off the exit ramp onto Willow Street. Take Willow until it ends at Whitney Avenue. Right onto Whitney Avenue and go .6 miles to take a left at Cliff St.
Alternative: Wilbur Cross/Merritt Parkway (Connecticut Rt. 15) to Exit 61. If you're coming from the south, turn left off the exit onto Whitney Avenue; but if you're coming from the north, turn right off the exit onto Whitney Avenue. Go through Hamden just about 3 miles toward New Haven. At the New Haven line look for the great stone wall surrounding the Park and turn right at Cliff St.
Parking at Edgerton Park
Free parking is available in the residential neighborhood bordering Edgerton Park: Cliff Street and Edgehill Road, as well as Whitney Avenue. Handicapped parking will be reserved on Cliff Street adjacent to the park gate at the corner of Whitney Avenue.
Transportation
There are many Green options for getting to the CT Folk Festival and Green Expo.
The Yale Shuttle: The Yale shuttle will provide transportation for Yale students, staff and faculty to and from Edgerton Park from 4:30 pm to 10:45 pm. Pick up the Shuttle at Phelps gate at 4:30, 5 pm, 5:30, 5 pm, and so on. Last pick up at Edgerton park at 10:45 pm to return to campus.
Public Transit: Metro North trains or CT Transit busses
One can take a bicycle in the Metro North trains. CT buses all have bike racks.(The capacity
of CT buses to carry bicycles is somewhat limited: two at a time, on a first-come, first-served
basis. Only single-seat two-wheeled bikes can be accomodated.)
Click here for Main New Haven CT Transit Bus Schedules. (Fare: $1.25 each way, exact change)
Click here for Metro North Schedules.
From New York
From station: Grand Central Terminal, South Park Ave & E. 42nd St
Board train line: MTA Metro-North RR New Haven Line/New Haven
From New Haven
From station: Union Station, 50 Union Ave., New Haven.
Board train line: MTA Metro-North RR New Haven Line/New York
CT Transit Bus to Edgerton Park
Board@ Union Station: Whitney Avenue J (J line schedules for weekdays and weekends.)
Arrive: Corner of Whitney & Cliff (for Edgerton Park)
Bike Trails
City of New Haven map of bike trails can be found here:
Greenways BikeMap_Front.pdf
Greenways BikeMap_Back.pdf
The ConnDOT website also includes a great bike trail map, here.
Cycling directions from around Connecticut to Union Station:
Ride to U.S. 1 and either ride north or south until you get to the Union Avenue portion of U.S. 1; Union Station is on Long Island Sound side of the street.
Here is a link for a trail from New Haven to New York (if you're feeling adventurous).
Thanks to Vanessa Guadalupe Vasquez, intern, CT Fund for the Environment
for originally compiling this information.
Rain venues
In case of rain, we move to indoor venues in New Haven.- Friday: Grassy Hill Song Circle moves to Lyman Center, SCSU, 501 Crescent Street New Haven.
- Saturday day: The Green Expo moves to the City-wide Field House, 480 Sherman Parkway, New Haven.
- Saturday evening: Mainstage concert featuring Nanci Griffith moves to Lyman Center, SCSU, 501 Crescent Street New Haven.
- Sunday: The Dava Hoot will not take place in case of rain.