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Parking & Directions

Maps & Directions to Palm Desert Campus

Students and parents & families who are registered to attend an Orientation session will receive a complimentary parking permit provided by Orientation and First Year Experience. This will be your valid parking permit ONLY during your attendance at orientation.

  • Parking permits are only valid for the parking lot assigned during the Orientation program. 
  • Parking permits must be printed and clearly displayed in the front dashboard of the vehicle.
  • Parking permits will be e-mailed to attending students to their CSUSB email account three (3) days prior to their Orientation. 
  • Vehicles must be parked forward-facing in diagonal parking spaces on campus. Vehicles parked backwards in diagonal spaces may be issued a citation.
  • It is the student's responsibility to have their parking permit and have it clearly displayed in their vehicles. Failure to park in the designated parking lot and/or properly displaying the permit will result in a $54 parking citation.

Orientation will not be responsible for any citations.

Direction to Palm Desert Campus from Indio 

  • Take the I-10 Freeway west toward Los Angeles
  • Take the Cook Street exit
  • Turn left onto Cook Street
  • Go south on Cook Street past Gerald Ford Avenue
  • Turn left onto Berger Drive West

Directions to Palm Desert Campus from San Bernardino

  • Take the I-10 Freeway east toward Indio
  • Take the Cook Street exit
  • Turn right onto Cook Street
  • Go south on Cook Street past Gerald Ford Avenue
  • Turn left onto Berger Drive West