Stanford is adopting location names for nine parking structures – such as Roth Way Garage, Wilbur Field Garage and Knight Management Center Garage – to make them easier to find on maps and on campus.

The new names will appear by the end of August on the searchable Stanford Campus Map  and on the new edition of the downloadable Stanford University Parking and Circulation Map.

The new names will replace the existing system of identifying parking structures with numbers.

The change will affect nine campus parking structures, including one under construction.

David Lenox, manager of the University Architect/Campus Planning & Design office, said Stanford historically numbered the garages in sequence – Parking Structure 1, 2, 3, etc. – based on the order in which they were designed and built.

“Unfortunately, for a visitor, it is not apparent, for example, why Parking Structure 5 and Parking Structure 6 are on opposite sides of the campus,” Lenox said, adding that Parking Structure 3 was demolished as part of the new Stanford Hospital construction project, and that there never was a garage referred to as Parking Structure 8.

The current and new names of the garages are as follows.

• Parking Structure 1, located at Roth Way and Campus Drive West next to the new McMurtry Building for the Department of Art and Art History, will become Roth Way Garage.

• Parking Structure 2, located at the intersection of Via Ortega and Panama Street near the Science and Engineering Quad, will become Via Ortega Garage.

• Parking Structure 4, an underground garage located on Pasteur Drive in the Stanford Medicine complex, will become Pasteur Visitor Garage A.

• Parking Structure 5, located at Oak and Stock Farm roads, will become Stock Farm Garage.

• Parking Structure 6, an underground garage located on Campus Drive East near the Munger Graduate Residence, will become Wilbur Field Garage.

• Parking Structure 7, an underground garage on Campus Drive East at the Graduate School of Business, will become Knight Management Center Garage.

• Parking Structure 9, located near Stanford’s Family Medicine Clinic at Hoover Pavilion on Quarry Road and Palo Road, will become Hoover Pavilion Garage.

• Parking Structure 10, an underground garage under construction on Santa Teresa Street on the west side of campus, will become Roble Field Garage.

• The existing garage at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, located at 725 Welch Road, will become Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Main Garage.