Directions:

• The Orion Performing Arts Center at Mount Ararat Middle School is in Topsham, Maine, easily accessible from the Topsham exit off Interstate 295 about 1/2 hour north of Portland.
• Wescustogo Hall is in North Yarmouth and is home to both our Fall Benefit and the Survivors Dance on Sunday following the Festival.

The Orion PAC venue has worked well for us - with an actual sprung floor in the gym! Please help us continue to be welcome by keeping things clean, and following all signs instructions about access (or non-access!) and street-shoe storage.

Be sure to bring soft-soled non-street shoes to preserve this wonderful floor!

A note from your organizers:
The signs for Mount Ararat Middle School and the Orion Performing Arts Center on Route 201 in Topsham can be easy to miss, but the turn to the school/OPAC complex is marked by a flashing yellow light. This sign looks like this:

To Get There:

Notice: In the spring of 2004 the Maine DOT renumbered both the Interstate Highways and the exits that we use to get to our venue.
This site reflects the new numbers.

The Orion Performing Arts Center at Mt Ararat Middle School is located at:
58 Republic Ave (off Canam Street)
Topsham, Maine USA

Click HERE for our own printable pdf map

(click here if you need the Acrobat Reader to read the map)


To the Orion PAC From the South:

• Take I-95 (Maine Turnpike) North to Exit 44 (South Portland - I-295)
  (to avoid the toll you can go to Exit 45 instead, then take the second exit ramp to I-295 - you save 50 cents and it only takes an extra minute or so)
• From I- 295 take exit 31 - (Topsham)
• *Turn right at the end of the ramp onto Route 196 East.
• **Take 196 East to the fifth set of lights.
• Turn left onto Route 201 North (Route 201 is also Main Street) past Mt Ararat High School and go just a little further until you see the yellow DEC Festival sign.
• Turn right.
• Go to the first intersection.
• Turn left into the parking lot of the Mount Ararat Middle School.

To the Orion PAC From the North:

• Take I-95 South to Exit 103 (I-295)
• Take I-295 South to exit 31A - (Topsham)
• Follow directions from the South at the *.

To the Orion PAC From Coastal Maine:

• Take Route 1 to Route 196 West toward Topsham.
• Take 196 to Route 201 North.
• Turn right onto Route 201 North.
• Take the second entrance into the Mount Ararat school complex.
• The Middle School is on the left.

To the Orion PAC From the West:

• Take Route 196 East toward Topsham.
• Cross I-295.
  
• Follow directions from the South at the **.
  
  See you there!