Porter Branch

About Porter Branch

• Facilities

  • Computers, Printing, & Faxing
  • Drive-Up Book Drop
  • Drive-Up Book Drop (After Hours)
  • Exam Proctoring
  • Friends Bookshop
  • Meeting Rooms
  • Notary Public (call ahead)
  • Scanning & Copying
  • Study Rooms
  • Walk-up Holds Pickup
  • WiFi

• Features

  • AED Defibrillator
  • Arts & Exhibits
  • Curbside Pickup
  • MakerLab
  • SERVE Garden

• Directions

  Exit I-95 at the Garrisonville exit (143B), north of Fredericksburg and south of Washington D.C. You will exit onto Route 610 or Garrisonville Road. Follow Garrisonville Road west about 3 miles. At the stoplight for Parkway Boulevard, turn left into the Park Ridge subdivision. (Beyond the light is the Stafford water tower. If you pass it you've gone too far.) Drive about 1/2 mile on Parkway Boulevard and you will see the Porter Branch on the left. Park Ridge Elementary is directly across the street.

• Parking

  • 83 parking spaces (5 handicap spots)
  • Bike racks
    

• Meeting Rooms

  • 200-seat meeting room, which can be partitioned to make two smaller rooms for 100 each
  • 1 meeting room that seats 20 theater-style 
  • 1 meeting room that seats 22 theater-style
  • 2 study rooms
  • Public kitchen
  • Picnic tables
  • Learn & Play Room, opens a new window

  Touchless water bottle filling stations are available at this location.

• Accessibility

  Front and back entrance are ADA compliant. Suitable for walkers and wheelchairs.

  CRRL provides and is committed to providing customers with equal access to library collections and services; programming and events; and facilities and branches. CRRL also tries - when possible - to acquire resources and technologies that are in keeping with the Americans with Disabilities Act, opens a new window and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, opens a new window, and attempts to provide reasonable accommodations to customers with disabilities upon request.