New Haven Community Circle Dance

Directions

We have a beautiful dance space in the Quaker Meeting House at 225 East Grand Avenue. Safe, free, off-street parking is available on the premises and the building and facilities are wheelchair-accessible.  Check out their website, which also has simplified directions, here: http://www.newhavenfriends.org/

I-95 North (from Fairfield):
Get off on exit 50 after the Q bridge (Woodward & Lighthouse Point). At the first light at the top of the exit ramp, take a left turn onto Woodward. Proceed to the first light at Forbes Avenue (gas station on your left). Go through the light, crossing Forbes, and proceed straight on Woodward past a fire station and woods on your left, some houses on your right. You'll come to a STOP sign at Woodward and Townsend. Proceed across Townsend straight onto Quinnipiac Avenue (large grey condos on your right). Quinnipiac takes some twists and turns for about a minute or so. You'll see an elementary school on your right, Buckeye Pipe Co. on your left, and then New Haven Morors on your right. The road will now be running parallel to the river. At the first light on the corner of Quinnipiac and East Grand Avenue (a large old bridge off to the left), take a right turn onto East Grand. Go up the hill. The meetinghouse will be on your right, (toward the end of the street) at 225 East Grand Avenue. Pull into the parking lot and enter through the front of the building. (If you reach the T at the end of the street, you've gone a wee bit too far.)

I-95 South (from New London):
Get off on exit 51 (Route 1, Frontage Road, Lighthouse Point). Get into the right lane and drive up the small hill on the right, past stores, gas stations and a U.S. post office facility. Proceed through the first light (Gulf station on your left) to the second light at the intersection of Forbes Avenue and Woodward. Take a right onto Woodward, and proceed straight on Woodward past a fire station and woods on your left, some houses on your right. You'll come to a STOP sign at Woodward and Townsend. Proceed across Townsend straight onto Quinnipiac Avenue (large grey condos on your right). Quinnipiac takes some twists and turns for about a minute or so. You'll see an elementary school on your right, Buckeye Pipe Co. on your left, and then New Haven Morors on your right. The road will now be running parallel to the river. At the first light on the corner of Quinnipiac and East Grand Avenue (a large old bridge off to the left), take a right turn onto East Grand. Go up the hill. The meetinghouse will be on your right, (toward the end of the street) at 225 East Grand Avenue. Pull into the parking lot and enter through the front of the building. (If you reach the T at the end of the street, you've gone a wee bit too far.)

From the center of New Haven:
Get onto Elm Street and drive past the New Haven Green toward State Street. When you get to the intersection of Elm and State (TV station on your right), cross over State Street onto Grand Avenue. Follow Grand Avenue to the river (two miles or so). Cross the bridge, which puts you onto East Grand Avenue. Proceed up the hill. The meetinghouse will be on your right, (toward the end of the street) at 225 East Grand Avenue. Pull into the parking lot and enter through the front of the building. (If you reach the T at the end of the street, you've gone a wee bit too far.)

South on I91 (from Hartford):
Get off at exit 8 (Middletown Avenue). Take a left turn at the bottom of the ramp and go under the highway. Go through a couple of lights, passing a Super K-Mart on your right. Immediately after the Super K-Mart is a stoplight with a Shell station on the right. Turn right at this stoplight onto Quinnipiac Avenue. Go to the first stoplight at East Grand Avenue (to your right is the river and a large old bridge.) Turn left onto East Grand and go up the hill. The meetinghouse will be on your right, (toward the end of the street) at 225 East Grand Avenue. Pull into the parking lot and enter through the front of the building. (If you reach the T at the end of the street, you've gone a wee bit too far.)