Narrative:

Upon arrival at the aircraft; the flight crew realized that the tower had just closed making the airport environment uncontrolled and runway maintenance on the intended departure had just commenced. This caused us to use the smaller runway on the other side of the airport. Coming up with the taxi plan we elected to steer clear of runway maintenance since taxiway C was NOTAM'd closed; but the taxi route we chose would have taken us on taxiways that were too narrow for the A321. We began the taxi to runway xxl via a;D;K but the taxiway widths were poorly marked on the jepp 10-9 and we didn't realize how narrow the taxiways were until the ca (captain) was taxiing on a with intention of turning right on D but while passing the taxiway it was so narrow it appeared to be an access road and when the ca turned on to what he thought was taxiway D we were turning onto runway yy. The only way to exit that runway at that point would have been taxiway east which appeared to be just as narrow as taxiway D. The crew decided with dispatch to shut down engines and call a tug to push us back to taxiway a. We made all the appropriate radio calls to keep any potential traffic from landing on runway yy. We then started engines again and got a follow me from airport ops to 9L via a; Q and a backtaxi on xxl. Take off and departure was uneventful.poorly notated company guidance with no taxiway widths. Little to no information from the company on tower and runway closures witch the company was unaware of.update of [airport] pages or some company guidance with taxiway widths that are less than standard and dispatch and company passing better information to crews when doing things that are non-standard ie night; unfamiliar airfields; unfamiliar and nonstandard taxi. A page sheet with some helpful tips on how to navigate a difficult and nonstandard environment would have been very helpful.

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Title: A321 flight crew reported difficulty taxiing at an unfamiliar airfield due to a scheduled runway closure and lack of taxiway information.

Narrative: Upon arrival at the Aircraft; the flight crew realized that the Tower had just closed making the airport environment uncontrolled and runway maintenance on the intended departure had just commenced. This caused us to use the smaller runway on the other side of the airport. Coming up with the taxi plan we elected to steer clear of runway maintenance since taxiway C was NOTAM'd closed; but the taxi route we chose would have taken us on taxiways that were too narrow for the A321. We began the taxi to runway XXL via A;D;K but the taxiway widths were poorly marked on the Jepp 10-9 and we didn't realize how narrow the taxiways were until the CA (Captain) was taxiing on A with intention of turning right on D but while passing the taxiway it was so narrow it appeared to be an access road and when the CA turned on to what he thought was taxiway D we were turning onto Runway YY. The only way to exit that runway at that point would have been Taxiway E which appeared to be just as narrow as taxiway D. The crew decided with Dispatch to shut down engines and call a tug to push us back to taxiway A. We made all the appropriate radio calls to keep any potential traffic from landing on Runway YY. We then started engines again and got a follow me from airport ops to 9L via A; Q and a backtaxi on XXL. Take off and departure was uneventful.Poorly notated company guidance with no taxiway widths. Little to no information from the company on Tower and Runway closures witch the company was unaware of.Update of [airport] pages or some company guidance with taxiway widths that are less than standard and Dispatch and company passing better information to crews when doing things that are non-standard ie night; unfamiliar airfields; unfamiliar and nonstandard taxi. A page sheet with some helpful tips on how to navigate a difficult and nonstandard environment would have been very helpful.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.