Residential Storage Information

Residence Life is able to provide limited storage to students living on campus on a first-come, first-served basis to students during the summer. Storage areas are designated in each community based on space and availability. Students using on campus storage must agree to the terms of on-campus storage, acknowledging they understand the university is not responsible for the loss, damage, or theft of their stored belongings.

To store or retrieve items, students should contact the appropriate Res Life team member on call during designated storage access times.

Eligibility
How to Store Your Items
Storage Guidelines
Summer Bike Storage
Accessing Storage in August
Fall Early Arrival Storage
Winter Storage
Accessing Storage in January

Eligibility

You are eligible to place boxes into storage over the summer if your plans match one of the following scenarios:

Returning to ON-campus housing for the upcoming year
Studying abroad for the fall semester or entire academic year

You are not eligable to place boxes into storage over the summer if your plans match one of the following scenarios:

Graduating this semester
Living OFF campus next year
Taking a leave of absence for the upcoming semester
Planning to transfer or withdraw from the university before the upcoming semester

How to Store Your Items

Residence Life provides storage options in all residence halls excluding Thomas Hall, as well as in Greek houses and in on-campus houses. Please review who to contact to store items in your community below:

Storage Guidelines

All items must be in sealed, shippable boxes
No freestanding items, rolled carpets, bikes or other valuables may be stored (no computers, TVs, fridges, other large appliances)
Each student may store up to 5 boxes
Each box must be no larger than 3'x3'x3' and weigh no more than 70 lbs
Each box must be sealed with packing tape and labeled with a Puget Sound storage label (provided for you). Storage labels must be filled out completely with all contact information
Residence Life is not responsible for lost or damaged items.

Summer Bike Storage

Students living on campus in the fall are eligible to store their bike in Trimble hall's bike storage room. There are only 50 first-come, first-serve spaces for bikes. Students must stop by the office of Residence Life at 3206 N 15th during business hours (8a-5p, Monday-Friday) to pick up a bike tag before contacting the RCC on call in Trimble to store their bike. Bike tags are availble starting the last day of spring classes and are available until spaces run out. Bikes must be removed in August before classes begin.

Accessing Storage Fall Opening

Students who stored items, including bicycles, in residential storage for the summer should pick up those items over the weekend before classes begin. Residence Life has scheduled specific storage access times during this weekend, and students will not be able to retrieve items outside of these scheduled access times.

For students arriving early who did not store their items in Residence Life's early arrival storage room T/P 144A, please contact an RA, RCC, or GHC for that building to request an appointment. Per Residence Life’s storage guidelines, students are not guaranteed access to storage units prior Residence Hall openings. Please be advised RAs, RCCs, GHCs will be in training and unavailable 9am-5pm in the weeks before residence halls open.

Fall Early Arrival Storage

If you plan on being part of the limited number of approved early arrivals and need access to storage there will be limited space available in one storage unit in Todd/Phibbs 144A available to access before continuing student move-in. Please plan accordingly, and store your items in the south first floor storage unit by contacting the staff on-call for that area during finals week storage admit times. Items stored in any other location on campus will NOT be accessible to early arrival students (Residence Life student staff exempt).

Typical approved early arrivals include:

Student athletes
Summer orientation staff
Select Dining and Conference Services staff

Students who are NOT approved to move-in to campus early will not have access to stored items over the summer until campus reopens for returning students at the end of August.

Winter Storage

You are eligible to place boxes into storage for winter break/spring semester if you are:

Currently living in campus housing and studying abroad for Spring
Plan on returning to campus housing in the Fall

Please contact the staff member for your area to schedule an appointment to store items in your community.

Accessing Storage in January

Please contact the staff member for your area to schedule an appointment during the weekend before classes begin to access your stored belongings. Due to the high volume of returning students to Thomas Hall, storage access times are scheduled to access items stored in Regester hall for those living in Thomas Hall. Specific information will be available closer to the returning dates.