Directions & Parking
The North Carolina Woodturners Symposium is held every two years at the Greensboro Coliseum. Greensboro is conveniently located in central North Carolina and an easy drive from neighboring states.
Greensboro Coliseum
The Greensboro Coliseum Complex consists of eight venues including the 167,000-square foot Special Events Center that includes three exhibition halls, a 4,500-seat mini-arena and eight meeting rooms. This section of the complex is the site of the Woodturning Symposium.
The Coliseum website www.greensborocoliseum.com has much information on the facility and the region.
Directions
The 2023 Symposium is being held in the Special Events Center of the Greensboro Coliseum Complex. The directions page on the Coliseum website provides directions for coming to Greensboro from any direction. Directions may also be found by accessing any online mapping service such as Google Maps and entering Greensboro Coliseum.
If your your GPS device wants a street address enter 1924 West Lee St which is the North side of the coliseum.
The Special Events Center is on Gate City Blvd. on the west side 1 mile north of I-40. Directions on the Greensboro Coliseum website will direct you to the entrance from Coliseum Boulevard on the east side of the Coliseum Complex. The closest parking to the Special Events Center is entered from Gate City Blvd. and Patterson St. on the west side of the Coliseum Complex. (This entrance is shown on the illustrations below.)
For guests staying in one of the facilities in the Wendover Rd area: From Wendover Rd. go East on I-40 and exit (exit 216) on Patterson St. Follow Patterson St. approximately 2.4 miles, crossing S. Holden Rd., until it intersects with Gate City Blvd. Go across Gate City Blvd. and into the Coliseum Complex. Parking in front of the Special Events Center is on the left.
For guests staying in one of the facilities in the Gate City Blvd. area (near Four Seasons Mall): Take Gate City Blvd. North (under I-40) about 1 mile (past Ellington St.) to the intersection of Patterson St. Turn right into the Coliseum Complex. Parking in front of the Special Events Center is on the left.
Parking
Registration packets will be obtained upon arrival at the Symposium site. The packet will contain a parking pass valid for the rest of the Symposium. Consequently, registrants will only have to pay for parking the first time they arrive.
An ACC Hall of Champions has been added to the west side of the Special Events Center and a new Greensboro Aquatics Center has been added west of the parking lot next to Gate City Blvd. The following drawing shows the parking area in front of the Special Events Center.
The following drawing shows the parking area in front of the Special Events Center.
The following is an overview of the Coliseum Complex which shows the location of the Special Events Center (colored tan) within the complex.
