Caltech Interactive Campus Map

Find Buildings & Services

The Caltech Interactive Campus Map helps students, visitors, and staff explore buildings, parking areas, services, and key locations across the campus of California Institute of Technology. You can search for destinations, get parking and walking directions.

Popular points of interest include the iconic Beckman Auditorium, the historic Millikan Library, and scenic Olive Walk. Powered by Vicinia, the map works on any device and provides fast, intuitive campus navigation across the Caltech.

Upgrades Available

This Interactive Campus Map of Caltech by Vicinia provides elegant 2.5D visualizations, ADA compliant wayfinding, bike route visualizations, and virtual and self-guided tours and more. Upgrades are available for content management, and advanced space, mobility and parking solutions. Claim your campus to learn more.

Caltech Interactive Campus Map

Powered by Vicinia Compass™

Caltech Compass is Caltech's interactive mapping, navigation, mobility, and campus engagement platform, providing access to campus maps, indoor and outdoor wayfinding, accessibility information, parking resources, real-time transit information, campus events, tours, and mobile experiences. Designed for students, faculty, staff, visitors, researchers, alumni, and prospective students, Caltech Compass helps users discover, navigate, and engage with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) through a unified digital experience.

Campus Maps and Wayfinding

The Caltech Interactive Campus Map helps users locate academic buildings, classrooms, departments, laboratories, research facilities, parking structures, dining locations, event venues, and campus landmarks. Navigation options may include walking, cycling, driving, transit, and accessible routing to support efficient travel across campus. Caltech Compass also provides integrated parking guidance, helping users navigate from their point of origin to an appropriate parking location and continue seamlessly from parking to their final destination. This end-to-end navigation experience reduces uncertainty and simplifies campus travel.

Campus Events and Real-Time Wayfinding

Caltech Compass helps users discover and navigate to campus events through location-aware experiences that may include event information, featured destinations, and real-time wayfinding. By connecting current campus activities with navigation, the platform helps visitors and members of the campus community quickly find and reach lectures, seminars, conferences, gatherings, and other campus events.

Real-Time Transit and Mobility

Caltech Compass integrates mobility services directly into the campus experience. Users can access transit information, transit stop information, and transportation resources that help support informed travel decisions.

Accessibility and Inclusive Navigation

Accessibility is a core component of the platform. Caltech Compass supports accessible navigation experiences and routing options that help members of the campus community and visitors navigate campus more effectively. The Compass web experience is designed with accessibility in mind and supports WCAG 2.2 compliance objectives, helping provide an inclusive and usable experience across a wide range of users, devices, and assistive technologies.

Parking and Mobility Services

The platform provides access to parking-related information and mobility resources that help visitors and campus users plan trips, locate destinations, and connect transportation options with navigation experiences.

Indoor Maps and Parking Structure Floor Plans

Caltech Compass provides indoor maps for selected campus buildings and parking facilities, helping users explore interior spaces, locate destinations, and navigate more effectively within participating locations. Available experiences may include building floor plans, indoor points of interest, and parking structure floor plans, helping create a more seamless journey from arrival to destination.

Tours and Campus Exploration

Caltech Compass supports campus discovery through interactive experiences that may include self-guided tours, virtual tours, featured destinations, landmarks, visitor resources, and points of interest throughout the institute.

Available on Web and Mobile

Caltech Compass is accessible through modern web browsers and selected experiences may also be available through the Vicinia mobile application, enabling users to access maps, navigation, transit information, tours, and destination information while on the move.

Powered by the Vicinia Digital Twin Platform

Caltech Compass is built on the Vicinia Digital Twin Platform, which brings together maps, buildings, transportation systems, mobility services, and location-based information to create a connected digital representation of the campus. This foundation supports navigation, accessibility, campus engagement, operational awareness, and future smart-campus initiatives.

About Vicinia

Vicinia Compass is part of the Vicinia Digital Twin Platform. Vicinia delivers digital twin, mapping, indoor positioning, wayfinding, mobility management, workplace, and engagement solutions for higher education, healthcare, enterprise, and public-sector environments.

Learn more at www.vicinia.io.