The City of Salem’s free October weekend shuttle returns on October 5th for its seventh year. This season the service will run for four weekends in October, from three satellite parking lots.
Shuttles will run October 5-6, October 12-14 (service provided on Indigenous Peoples’ Day), October 19-20, and October 26-27 from 10 am to 8 pm between three free satellite parking lots and downtown Salem. Free satellite parking lots are located at Salem State University’s O’Keefe Center parking lot (225 Canal Street), Salem High School (77 Willson Street), and at 108 Jefferson Avenue behind Salem Hospital. Together the three satellite lots offer nearly 800 free parking spaces. The downtown pick-up/drop-off location is in Riley Plaza. An accessible shuttle is available for those who require one.
“Allowing people to park at these satellite lots has helped reduce demand for downtown parking and lessen the number of cars driving into and around downtown,” said Mayor Dominick Pangallo. “Since the City of Salem began this service in 2017, the service has kept thousands of cars out of downtown Salem. While a lot of visitors use the shuttle, we also see many Salem residents use it to easily get to and from downtown Salem on October weekends. I encourage everyone planning a visit to Salem this October to make use of the free satellite parking lots and this shuttle service.”
Christina Hodge, PE
