Pedestrian Entrances:
Stand-alone Pedestrian portals: Employees Only
- Open 24 hours a day, 7 Days a week
NIH Gateway Center at Metro: Employees and Visitors
- Use the NIH Gateway Center (Building 66)
- Open Monday - Friday, 6am - 10pm
- Closed on Weekends and Holidays
- After 10 pm on weekdays, all day weekends and holidays, pedestrian visitors should enter campus via the Commercial Vehicle Inspection Facility (CVIF) - Building 67 (on Rockville Pike between North Drive and Wilson Drive)
- Patients and patients' visitors are encouraged to use the West Drive Patient Entrance, 6am - 10pm, 7 days a week
Employee Turnstiles at Vehicle Entrances
- Open During Vehicle Hours Of Operation
Weekend/Holiday/After Hours Campus Access
(These hours also apply to most weather-related closures)
Rockville Pike at South Drive (Metro)
- Open 24 hours a day - Inbound and Outbound traffic
Old Georgetown Road at Lincoln Drive
- Weekends/Holidays 6am - 4pm - Inbound and Outbound traffic
Commercial Vehicle Inspection Facility (CVIF)
- Open 24 hours - Inbound traffic only
- On all weekends and holidays, visitors (except patient/patient visitors) in vehicles or as pedestrians should enter via the CVIF
Cedar Lane at West Drive: Patients and Patient Visitors Only
- 6 am - 10 pm, 7 days a week
- This entrance is for inbound patient/patient visitor traffic only
- Clinical Center Hospitality staff will assist patients at the entrance