Revised Vehicle Access Procedures for Visiting Claude Moore Colonial
Farm's Administrative and Maintenance Areas
Who: Visitors to Claude Moore Colonial Farm Administrative/Maintenance
Areas
If your destination is Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center and
not the
Farm, click here for different procedures
to follow.
When: Effective August 5, 2002
What: From now until construction of a new access roadway
to Claude Moore Colonial Farm (Farm) Administrative and Maintenance
areas, visitors must follow the instructions listed below to be granted
vehicle access through the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
(TFHRC) property to the Farm administrative and maintenance areas.
Note: There are minor differences between
the procedures visitors follow between 7:00am and 7:00pm (daytime)
and between 7:00pm and 7:00am (evening/nighttime). These procedures
will be the same for weekdays and weekends.
Daytime Procedures
1. All individuals, including commercial entities, who need access
to the Farm through TFHRC, must use the Route 193/Colonial Farm Road
entrance to the TFHRC property.
Vehicles that request access to the Farm from the George Washington
Parkway (GW Parkway) entrance will be redirected to the Route 193/Colonial
Farm Road entrance; pedestrians will not be admitted. Click here for
a map.
2. When individuals arrive at the Route 193/Colonial Farm Road entrance,
they must inform the entrance gate Security Guard that they wish to
visit Claude Moore Colonial Farm.
3. The driver of a vehicle requesting access through the TFHRC property
to the Farm must present a picture ID to the security guard at the
entrance gate.
4. Before being granted access through TFHRC, Farm visitors will
be asked to complete a simple visitor log including date of the visit,
the visitor's full printed name, and the time of entry.
5. After log entry completion, the entrance gate security guard reviews
the visitor's ID; alerts security about the visit; provides monitored
access to the Farm entrance gate; and opens/closes the gateway for
Farm visitors. Click here for gate-to-gate map.
Farm visitors are expected to drive from the Turner-Fairbank Highway
Research Center entrance gate directly to the Claude Moore Colonial
Farm entrance gate. At no time, while a visitor is on TFHRC property,
should that visitor deviate from this direct pathway. Vehicles will
be monitored at all times.
6. When exiting the Farm, a security guard will alert security at
the TFHRC entrance gate that the Farm visitor is departing; open the
Farm entrance gate; and monitor the visitor's vehicle until it leaves
the property. Again, the Farm visitor vehicle is not expected to deviate
from this direct pathway between the two gates.
Evening/Nighttime Procedures
Access between 7:00pm and 7:00am will be similar to that during the
daytime, except when drivers want to leave the Farm, they must first
call the TFHRC Main Security Desk at 202-493-3003 to request
that someone be sent to open the fence gate.
1) Upon calling TFHRC Security, visitors departing from the farm
should pull their vehicles up to the gate and wait for the gate to
be opened.
2) Once the fence gate is opened, TFHRC security will monitor the
vehicle until it departs the TFHRC property. Under no circumstances
should a vehicle destined to or from the Farm depart the direct roadway
between the Farm parking area and the TFHRC entrance/exit gate.
Note: A security system alarm on the Farm gate will go off if
anyone other than a TFHRC Security Guard opens the gate.
For more information, click here.
Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center Visitors, click
here
FHWA Contact: Doreen McCarthy, 202-493-3175
Claude Moore Colonial Farm Contact: 703-442-7557
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