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Getting To and Around Â鶹´«Ã½

Â鶹´«Ã½ is located on ancestral lands, on Treaty One Territory. These lands are the heartland of the Métis people. Our city is in the centre of North America along the banks of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. By May, Â鶹´«Ã½ is often green and warm and offers a lively restaurant scene, many accessible and affordable hotels, art galleries, museums (including the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, the only federal museum outside Ottawa), and more. Â鶹´«Ã½ features beautiful walking paths along the rivers, an urban and downtown national park (The Forks), the historic Exchange District, and the Classically-inspired Manitoba Legislature, all minutes from the University of Â鶹´«Ã½’s campus and downtown hotels. We hope you will have time to explore this wonderful city during the conference.

Â鶹´«Ã½’s airport is a mere 20-minute (and $25!) cab ride from downtown, and it offers connections across North America. At present, one can fly direct to Â鶹´«Ã½ from Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Halifax; and Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Nashville, Atlanta, Orlando, and Miami.

American citizens generally require no travel authorization beyond a passport to travel to Canada for a conference. Many other nationalities do not require a visa or travel authorization beyond the inexpensive ; holding a US visa may also permit you to apply for and receive an Electronic Travel Authorization. Some visitors, however, will require visas, and we recommend investigating these issues as early as possible: see the . We cannot offer advice on these issues, and we cannot accommodate requests to present virtually in any case.

Getting to Â鶹´«Ã½

By air

Â鶹´«Ã½ James Armstrong Richardson International Airport
2000 Wellington Avenue
Phone: 204.987.9402

By rail

VIA Rail
123 Main Street
Toll Free (Canada and U.S.): 1.888.VIARAIL (842.7245)

By road

In Canada:

  • The No. 1 Trans-Canada Highway (east-west) provides direct connection to all major urban centres in the country.

From the United States:

  • Manitoba No. 7 South to connect with U.S. Interstate No. 29 and Minnesota No. 94 (border crossing: Emerson).
  • Manitoba No. 59 to connect with Minnesota No. 59 and U.S. #2 (border crossing: Tolstoi).

 

Information sourced from the Tourism Â鶹´«Ã½ website; please for more details

Getting around Â鶹´«Ã½

Visit the for transportation options in Â鶹´«Ã½

Getting around UÂ鶹´«Ã½

Use one of our campus maps to navigate around UÂ鶹´«Ã½ campus

Parking at UÂ鶹´«Ã½

Short-term parking on campus is available in several locations:

  • The Axworthy Health & RecPlex has 100 indoor spots available for casual daily parking. The cost is $4 per hour during the day and a flat $5 for evenings and weekends. (You can access the parkade from Young Street).
  • 439 Young Street (behind Wii Chii Waa Ka Nak—the building on Ellice Avenue at Young Street – it is the building with a star blanket painted on the front).
  • Lot behind 520 Portage Avenue— (home of Global College, the United Centre for Theological Studies, and Menno Simons College).
  • Metered parking on the street and at nearby lots and parkades.

Please see the UÂ鶹´«Ã½ parking map for more information