Parking & Directions
Patient and Family Parking Services
The following information describes parking services at the Boston Children’s Hospital Main Campus buildings on Longwood Ave in Boston. For travel or parking information for any of our satellite locations, please select the specific facility you are interested in visiting under the Locations section of our website.
Self-Park: Patient and Family Garage
The Boston Children’s Patient Family Garage is located directly across the street from our main entrance at 300 Longwood Ave. The garage is on the corner of Longwood Ave. and Blackfan St. with the entrance located on Blackfan St. (across from Bertucci’s Restaurant).
The garage is open 24 hours a day with reduced rate validated parking available for patients and parents. The validated rate for the Patient Family Garage is $10 for up to 24 hours (or one exit).
Parking tickets can be validated at the following Boston Children's locations:
- Main Lobby Reception Desk: Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
- Emergency Services: open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week (Parking validation for emergency patients only)
- A limited number of clinics have validators located in their reception areas. Please ask about parking validation when you check in for your appointment.
Valet Parking Services
Valet parking is available 24 hours a day at the main entrance of the Hospital. Normal garage rates apply and there is an additional $5 charge for valet services. Vehicles with handicap placards are waived the additional $5 charge for valet, but normal garage rates still apply.
Reduced rate validation is available for patients and parents using valet services with a maximum charge of $15 for up to 24 hours. Validation for valet parking is available only at the Main Lobby Reception Desk and in the Emergency Services Department.
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Family Parking Programs
In and Out Parking
Keep your paid parking receipt and you can use it as a voucher for free same-day parking if you enter and exit the Patient Family Garage again before midnight. Just present your original paid receipt to the parking cashier when you’re ready to leave again and there will be no additional charge for your second visit up until midnight on the same day. Some restrictions apply.
Family Extended Stay Parking
Long term visitors with a minimum one week stay can enroll in the Family Extended Stay Parking program and be issued a parking pass to enter and exit the garage without needed to visit the cashier station. Week-long cards can be purchased for a discounted rate of $60 each (seven days for the price of six) and you are free to come and go as many times as you wish during that period. Additional consecutive days can be added for $10 per day. Some restrictions apply. Please visit the Boston Children’s Parking Office with your vehicle information and parent ID to enroll in the Family Extended Stay Parking program.
Other area parking options
Keeping in mind that patient validation is available only at the Patient Family Garage located on the corner of Longwood Ave and Blackfan St., non-patient visitors interested in other parking options might consider either the 375 Longwood Ave Garage (3 blocks from the hospital) or the 333 Longwood Garage (located less than a block away).
Listed below are sample rates for these two garages. Please keep in mind that all rates are subject to change:
375 Longwood
- $12 up to 4 hours
- $25 up to 6 hours
- $31 up to 24 hours
333 Longwood
- $26 up to 4 hours
- $40 up to 6 hours
- $45 up to 24 hours
Parking at Satellite Locations
All of our satellite locations have slightly different arrangements for patient and visitor parking but most services are free and all are easily accessible for parkers. For more specific travel or parking information for any of our satellite locations, please select the specific facility you are interested in visiting under the Locations section of our website.
Contact the Parking Office
If you need additional information about visitor parking services, please contact the Boston Children’s Parking Office by email at parking@childrens.harvard.edu or by phone at 617-355-6251 between 7:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. EST.
Directions to Boston Children's Hospital, Main Campus
The main campus of Boston Children's Hospital is located at:
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Print Directions and Map
For information about our Community of Care locations, see Boston Children’s Hospital Locations.
From the north via routes 1, 93 and 28- Follow the signs for Storrow Drive.
- After the Copley Square/Massachusetts Avenue sign, take the left exit off Storrow Drive marked Fenway, Route 1.
- Take the right fork marked Boylston Street, Outbound.
- At the major intersection, go straight onto Brookline Avenue, past Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-East Campus to Longwood Avenue intersection.
- At this major intersection, turn left onto Longwood Avenue.
- Boston Children's main entrance is two blocks down on the right: 300 Longwood Avenue.
- From Route 1, continue to the Jamaicaway.
- From Routes 28 or 138, proceed via Morton Street and the Arborway to the Jamaicaway.
- Continue on the Jamaicaway as it turns into the Riverway.
- At the Brookline Avenue traffic light, turn right onto Brookline Avenue.
- Continue to the third traffic light and turn right onto Longwood Avenue.
- Boston Children's main entrance is two blocks down on the right: 300 Longwood Avenue.
- Boston Children's Parking Garage is on the left.
- Take Exit 22 at Copley Square/Prudential.
- Follow the left lane, labeled Prudential Center, and take Huntington Avenue west to Longwood Avenue.
- Turn right onto Longwood Avenue and go past Harvard Medical School
- Boston Children's main entrance is on the left: 300 Longwood Avenue.
- Boston Children's Parking Garage is on the left.
- Exit at Route 9 East.
- Follow Route 9 East to Brookline Village.
- After passing the fire station on your right, at the next large intersection (at the Brook House apartments) take a left onto Brookline Avenue.
- Proceed through four traffic lights to the Longwood Avenue intersection.
- Turn right onto Longwood Avenue.
- Boston Children's main entrance is two blocks down on the right.
- Boston Children's Parking Garage is on the left.
- Exit 18 on Mass Pike - Allston/Brighton toll
- Merge onto Cambridge Street
- Take left onto Harvard Avenue
- Pass through Brighton's Coolidge Corner
- Take left on Longwood Avenue
- Crossover Riverway
- Boston Children's main entrance is four blocks down on the right: 300 Longwood Avenue.
- Boston Children's Parking Garage is on the left.
333 Longwood Avenue
- From the hospital’s main campus, cross Longwood Avenue and turn left
- 333 Longwood Avenue is about half a block down Longwood Avenue, across the street from the hospital
- The building's main entrance is between Bank of America and the Harvard Coop
Dana-Farber Jimmy Fund Clinic (44 Binney Street, 3rd floor)
- From the hospital’s main campus, turn left on Longwood Avenue
- Turn left onto Binney Street
- 44 Binney St. is at the end of the block, on the right
1 Autumn Street (Human Resources)
- From the hospital’s main campus, turn left on Longwood Avenue
- Go four blocks down Longwood Avenue, toward Riverway
- Autumn Street intersects with Longwood right before Riverway
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