Parking Operations
Snow Routes
Designated snow routes on and around the West Lafayette campus help facilitate snow removal by Purdue University and the city of West Lafayette. Failure to remove a vehicle from a snow route when required could result in the vehicle being ticketed and/or towed at the owner’s expense.
Purdue University
In the event that two or more inches of snow are forecast, motorists may be required to temporarily move their on-street vehicles from Purdue snow routes. The university will notify the campus and community if action is required.
The Purdue snow routes include the following:
- Aviation Drive between Airport Road and just west of Hangar 1
- David Ross Road
- Hilltop Drive
- Ross-Ade Drive
- Russell Street between Tower Drive and Stadium Avenue
- Russell Street between Mitch Daniels Boulevard and Harrison Street
- Third Street west of North Martin Jischke Drive
- Tower Drive
- University Street between Tower Drive and Stadium Avenue
City of West Lafayette
The City of West Lafayette always requires motorists to temporarily move their vehicles from the city snow routes for two or more inches of snow. Alerts will be sent to individuals who sign up for the city’s emergency snow route notifications.
On-campus and immediately surrounding city of West Lafayette snow routes include the following:
- Airport Road
- Cherry Lane
- First, Second, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth streets between Russell and University streets
- Fowler Avenue
- Grant Street
- Harrison Street/Williams Street from South Martin Jischke Drive to Grant Street
- MacArthur Drive between Mitch Daniels Boulevard and Nimitz Drive
- Mitch Daniels Boulevard
- Russell Street between Stadium Avenue and Mitch Daniels Boulevard
- Stadium Avenue west of Grant Street
- State Street
- Waldron Street
- Wiggins Street
The following links are external resources and may not meet Purdue’s accessibility standards.
* City of West Lafayette snow route email and text notifications are likely to be delivered to spam or junk folders. Please mark both methods as safe so you receive future updates in a timely manner.
Map
The map below outlines the snow routes established by Purdue in black, and the adjacent city of West Lafayette routes are shown in gold.
