Midwest Regional, 6-Dec-2011

Midnight has been passed, and it’s officially zero-day for the Midwest Regional VMUG, held in Kansas City at the nationally-reknowned Arrowhead stadium, home to NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs!

The stadium was renovated around 13 months ago, and the Regional meeting will be one of the largest events—outside of NFL football, of course—to be held at the stadium.

If you’re interested in more history on the venue, what better place to look than the Arrowhead website!

The entrance to the event is the “Tower Club” entrance, on the South side of the stadium. If you’re new to the venue, you’ll be aiming for Parking Lot E as the primary choice for parking. If that is full (or you have a problem with stairs!), you’ll want to choose Parking Lot D instead.

The most direct access to Lot E is Gate 5, off Raytown Road. While it may appear that there’s no access from the I-435/Raytown Road offramp, a quick u-turn will have you passing the Chiefs Practice facility and on to Lot E in short order. If you’re approaching the stadium from any other direction, you still want to aim for the south side of the stadium: given the weather forecast, you really don’t want to walk from any other parking lots if you can avoid it.

This is the third all-day, regional-class event to be hosted in Kansas City, and the KC VMUG is incredibly proud to have grown—roughly doubling each year—from our humble roots at Cerner’s Riverpoint facility in 2009.