How to get to the NIST facilities in Gaithersburg, Maryland, or Boulder, Colorado.

GIF Map showing the route to NIST (Gaithersburg, MD) from Washington, D.C., or you can read the same map as a JPEG file.

From Washington (northbound on Rt. 270), visitors to NIST should enter the Collector/Distributor lanes at Exit 9 and take Exit 10, Rt. 117 West. Turn left at the first traffic light and proceed through the main gate (Gate A). If coming southbound on Rt. 270, take Exit 11B, Rt. 124 East (Quince Orchard Rd.).

GIF map of the NIST campus. Visitors should go to the receptionist in the main lobby of the Administration Building for directions or for shuttle service to other buildings on the site, including "NIST North", leased office space proximate to the main campus.

NIST provides shuttle service for official vistors and staff to and from the Shady Grove Metro Station. Visitors using Metro can meet the NIST shuttle at the east side "Kiss & Ride" area of the Shady Grove Metro Station at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour from 8:00 am to 5:30 pm. The shuttle departs from the front of the NIST Administration Building on the hour and half hour, and stops at NIST North four minutes later on the way to the Metro station.

Special arrangements can be made to use the NIST shuttle to the Department of Commerce's Hoover Building at 15th & E Streets in Washington. To make reservations, call (301) 975-5923.

Navigating the NIST Boulder (Colo.) Laboratories