The Venue

The Merkin Center is located on the eighth floor of Caltech Hall on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California. The recommended hotel for your stay is the Saga Motor Hotel.

The hotel address is 1633 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91106, a mile away from the Merkin Center, about a 24 minute walk.

The nearest airport is the Burbank Airport (BUR) 15 miles away and is the most convenient airport to use. It has nonstop service from several U.S. cities including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Denver, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Nashville, and New York (JFK).

The much larger Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is about 30 miles from the hotel. Also serving the LA metropolitan area are the Long Beach Airport (LGB), 35 miles away, Ontario Airport (ONT), 36 miles away, and John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana (SNA), 50 miles away.

For more airport information, including public transit options, see these links.

Getting to Pasadena from BUR and LAX

LAX Transportation Options

If you live in the area and are commuting daily and will need parking, the nearest parking structure to the Merkin Center is the North Wilson parking structure located at 341 S Wilson Ave. Parking is $9 a day or $27 for the week. There is also free street parking available on California Blvd and S Wilson Ave, though availability is limited and most parking is typically gone by 8 am. See the Caltech visitor parking page for further information.