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Hours, location/directions, nearby hotels
The Mystery Company
233 Second Ave SW
Carmel, IN 46032
Hours
Monday through Saturday, 10:30 am to 5:30 pm
Open late Wednesday evenings to 8:00 pm
Open most Sundays, Noon to 4 pm, except Holiday weekends
Location
Directions
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Our new location is at 233 2nd Ave SW, along the Monon Trail in Carmel's Old Town. It's two blocks south of Bazbeaux Pizza and Bub's (original location) along the trail. We're across the Trail from Bub's new cafe.
You can't drive straight down 2nd Ave SW from Main Street (aka 131st St) -- you need to go around to 1st Ave SW or to the new roundabout at 4th Ave SW and go south on either street.
From the corner of 1st Ave SW and Main St, you turn right onto 1st SW then left onto 2nd Ave SW. We'll be on the left, but you might find it easier to park in the city's lot on your right.
From the rotary at 4th Ave SW & Main St: you go south to 2nd St SW and turn left. There's a big pile of dirt at this corner; you can't miss it. 2nd St SW comes to a T at 2nd Ave SW; we're the building directly in front of you at the T. The city's parking lot will be to your left.
If you're coming here from the old location on Rangeline Rd: Go north on Rangeline. Look for the new "Carmel Arts & Design District" arch over the road. Just past the arch, take a left turn onto 3rd St SW. Go two short blocks to the end of 3rd St SW. You can turn right at this corner onto 2nd Ave SW. We'll be the second building on your right, just past Design Sense.
From the south and I-465 via Meridian/US-31: Go east on 116th St (a right turn if you’re coming from Indianapolis and I-465). Take a left at the first traffic light onto Pennsylvania Ave. Go north to City Center Drive and turn right. Continue on City Center through its curves to the third light, where you’ll turn left onto 3rd Ave SW. Go north less than one half mile to 2nd St SW. There's a big pile of dirt at this corer; you can't miss it. Take a right turn onto 2nd St SW. 2nd St SW comes to a T at 2nd Ave SW; we’re the building directly in front of you at this intersection. There’s a city parking lot to your left.
From the north (Muncie, Ft. Wayne, Michigan) using I-69: Take I-69 south to Exit 5, 116th St, Fishers. Turn right at the traffic light at the top of the ramp to go west on 116th St. Go about 6.2 miles to Rangeline Rd. (There will be a Marathon station at the NE corner and a Valero station at the SE corner.) Turn right to go north on Rangeline Rd. Go about 1.3 miles until you see an arch over the roadway; the arch says "Carmel Arts & Design District." Immediately past the arch, turn left onto 3rd St SW. Go two short block west on 3rd St SW, towards the great big concrete grain silo/elevator. 3rd St comes to an end with the Monon Trail directly in front of you. Your only option is to turn right onto 2nd Ave SW. We'll be the second building on your right. Our parking lot is on the north side of the building.
Construction note: As of June16, 2008, the roads in our immediate neighborhood are pretty clear right now except that Rangeline Road is closed at 136th Street aka Smoky Row. You can detour via 1st St NW and the townhouse complex, but this is a little tricky. Better just avoid this corner altogether!
HOTELS
For a close-by place to stay, if you're on Orbitz or another website, look for something on N. Meridian, with an address above 10200 and below 13100. (Some of the N. Meridian hotels have a N. Pennsylvania Ave. address; Pennsylvania is a parallel access road street for N. Meridian buildings.) We suggest using the "search by address feature" and entering our street address -- 233 Second Ave SW, Carmel, IN. Carmel is geographically pretty large, so if you don't specify our address, you can end up with hotels that are a little far away. N. Meridian is also know as US-31, if you're looking at this on a map.
Many of the major lodging chains are represented along the N. Meridian corridor. The Hampton Inn and the Hilton Garden Inn are the closest; we've had good reports from visitors who've stayed at each -- just what you'd expect from these chains. Of the two, the Hampton Inn's location is a little better -- you can walk to places to eat within the same strip-mall complex. The Hilton Garden Inn has a typical suburban-office-park-middle-of-nowhere feel to it (as do most of the other N. Meridian hotels, unfortunately).
Just a little farther away, the Doubletree is especially nice; it's a quiet, all-suite hotel that housed our faculty for our Writing Murder classes in Fall 2007.
The hotels that are listed as in the "Keystone at the Crossing" area -- the Sheraton, Marriott and Hyatt Place -- are part of a large shopping/office/dining complex that's nice, in a standard suburban sort of way. This whole complex is about 5 miles away from the store, also an easy drive. (Look for street addresses that have the word "Crossing" in them to find a hotel that's right in the midst of this complex.)
Farther out, there's a Comfort Suites and a Best Western in Westfield, which is the next suburb to the north. These might be a little less expensive. There's little or nothing of interest in the immediate vicinity of either of these hotels -- the Comfort Suites overlooks a quick lube shop -- but otherwise their locations aren't bad (not too much farther than the Meridian hotels, easy in/out). One other possible bargain is the Extended Stay America Indianapolis North -- it's an odd, tucked away location, but it's not far and it's sometimes cheap.
We wish there were a nice little bed & breakfast that we could recommend, but if there's one out there, we don't know about it.
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