UW Tacoma has made it a priority to incorporate a variety of wheelchair accessible routes via a network of ramps, switchback trails, elevators and skybridges. All campus buildings are wheelchair accessible via electronic door openers, internal ramps and elevators. Most bathrooms on campus also have electronic door openers, and every building on campus has accessible bathrooms. The following describes accessible routes from both Pacific and Jefferson Avenues to facilities up the hill, including the University YMCA Student Center.

From Jefferson Avenue & Tioga Parking Lot*

You can access central campus via the following routes:

  1. A paved switchback trail located between the Tioga and Science Buildings leads from Jefferson Avenue down to the central campus plaza.
  2. An open-air skybridge, accessed between the Science Building and Tacoma Paper & Stationary Building, connects with the Keystone Building. Once inside Keystone, use the elevator to take you down to the first floor, which is level with the central campus plaza.
  3. An elevator inside the south end of the Science Building can take you down to a first-floor exit leading to the Prairie Line Trail (approximately halfway down the switchback trail).
  4. An elevator inside the Dougan Building will take you to a first-floor exit leading to a smaller ramp which will take you to the central campus plaza.

*The Tioga parking lot is located on the corner of Jefferson Avenue and S. 21st Street.

From Pacific Avenue

There are elevators leading to central campus:

  1. In the Joy Building, located at 1718 Pacific Avenue (Husky Card required for access).
  2. In the Garretson Woodruff Pratt (GWP) Building, located at 1911 Pacific Avenue, through the doors next to the stairs and down the hall.
  3. In the Cherry Parkes Building, located at 1922 Pacific Avenue (entrance next to Indochine Restaurant - the elevator is down the hall and to the left).
  4. There is also a paved switchback trail leading between Pacific Avenue and the central campus plaza located between the GWP and the Walsh Gardner buildings.

Emergency Evacuation Plan

Campus Safety & Security maintains information about what to do during times of emergency or disaster.