FLYING INTO OKLAHOMA CITY

The major airport closest to Norman is Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City (the airport code is OKC). You can find details at: http://www.flyokc.com/

This website includes information on shuttle service to and from the airport.

OKC is served by these airlines:

American, Champion, Continental, Delta, Frontier, Great Plains, Northwest, Southwest and United

The drive from the airport to Norman should take about 40 minutes, depending on traffic and construction, and is reasonably straightforward; see below.

DRIVING TO NORMAN

Norman is about 20 minutes south of Oklahoma City, with the suburb of Moore in between.

Driving from other states

1. There are three major interstates that intersect the Oklahoma City area: I-40 (east-west), I-44 (northeast-southwest), and I-35 (north-south). The only interstate that intersects Norman is I-35.

2. Expect the drive from Dallas to be about 3 hours, from Little Rock about 4 hours, from Kansas City about 6, from St. Louis about 7, etc.

3. Both I-44 and I-40 intersect I-35; take I-35 southbound. Only people coming from Texas or other points south should take I-35 northbound.

Driving from the OKC airport

1. If you are driving to Norman from the OKC airport, do this:

2. When leaving the airport, stay on the right side of the road. After about half a mile you will find an on ramp to I-44 on the right. Take it. Now you are on I-44 W.

3. Not long after you get onto I-44, you will come to a fork between I-44 E and I-44 W. Stay on I-44 W.

4. Not long after the fork, you will go around a curve. *DO NOT* take the exit to I-44 W; instead, stay on the same road, which as you curve around becomes I-240 E (go figure).

5. Take I-240 E to I-35 S (labeled "Dallas").

From I-35

1. Once you hit I-35, you're looking for Norman, which is about 20 miles south of the OKC city line, with the suburb of Moore in between.

2. When you get to Norman, take the OK Hwy 9 eastbound exit, which when driving southbound is shared with the Lindsey Ave exit (take the 2nd off ramp). Exit 108 or thereabouts.

3. Take Hwy 9 eastbound, crossing several traffic lights -- 24th, McGee, Imhoff, Chautauqua -- and then you will come to a traffic light at Jenkins Ave. Turn left (northbound) onto Jenkins.

4. The Stephenson Research & Technology Center (also referred to as SRTC) is on the east side of Jenkins, between David L. Boren Blvd and Columbus, just north of the construction site for the new National Weather Center building.

NOTE ON PARKING: Just south of the Stephenson Research and Technology Center (SRTC), but north of Hwy 9, is a large construction site, which when completed will be the new National Weather Center (NWC). There is an east-west street between SRTC and the NWC construction site called David L. Boren Blvd., and another cross street just north of SRTC (Columbus). To park, take either of these streets into the SRTC parking lot. Once parked, go to the main entrance on the north side of SRTC (the side that is farthest from the NWC construction site).