Old Salem is located south of downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Old Salem Visitor Center address is 900 Old Salem Road for those who use computer mapping. Brown highway signs from US Highway 52 and Interstate 40 in Winston-Salem will help you to find Old Salem from the Stadium Drive exit.

Stadium Drive Exit 108C on US Highway 52

At the Stadium Drive exit from US Highway 52 (from both directions) you will turn to the right on Stadium Drive and go to the stop light at Salem Avenue. Turn left at the stop light and follow the Salem Avenue until you come to the large traffic circle at Old Salem Road. Automobiles should bear to the right onto Old Salem Road. Just after going under the wooden pedestrian bridge overpass, turn at next left (Walnut Street) into Visitor Center parking lot. Buses should continue straight on Salem Avenue to the next stop light at Marshall Street, turn right on Marshal Street and go up slight hill to next cross street of Walnut, just past Walnut Street to the right is the bus entrance for bus drop off and pick up at the Visitor Center.

There is additional automobile parking on the far side of the brown building next to the small Visitor Center parking lot. There are also large parking spaces to accommodate buses and oversized recreational vehicles.

From US Highway 52 southbound

Follow US Highway 52 South, just one exit south of Business I-40 is the Stadium Drive exit (108C). Take exit and follow directions for Stadium Drive above, also indicated by brown directional signs.

From U.S. Highway 52 northbound

Continue north on US Highway 52 past the Interstate 40 interchange to Stadium Drive Exit (108C). Take exit and follow directions for Stadium Drive above, also indicated by brown directional signs.

From Business I-40 westbound, Interstate 40 both directions:

Follow signs on to US Highway 52 at the interchange (South from Business I-40, and North from Interstate 40) directing you to Old Salem.  Take exit and follow directions from Stadium Drive above, also indicated by brown directional signs.

From Business I-40 eastbound:

It is recommended you proceed to US Highway 52 at the next exit and go south on US Highway 52 to the Stadium Drive exit. Take exit and follow directions from Stadium Drive above, also indicated by brown directional signs. (However, there is a signed exit for Old Salem at the Main Street downtown exit (Exit 5D) directly off Business I-40. Once you take the exit it splits two directions, stay to the right onto Liberty Street. You will have to merge from the LEFT onto Liberty Street. Stay straight on Liberty Street, which becomes Old Salem Road, through three stop lights. Past the Academy Street stop light, take the next right turn at Walnut Street into the Old Salem Visitor Center parking lot. Bus traffic should turn right on Academy Street and then left on Marshall Street to reach the bus entrance.)

Driving Times

Old Salem is less than 30 minutes from Greensboro (via Interstate 40 or Business 40) and High Point (via 311 and Interstate 40/US 52); just under two and a half hours from Asheville; two hours from Roanoke, Va.; and 90 minutes from Charlotte, Raleigh, and Boone, N.C.