<p>Chillin, a lot of the ones mentioned (like Williams and Dartmouth) are right in the middle of towns and cities, so it's not like you look out a window and see a woods. U of Vermont is right in the middle of the biggest city in the state. You need to clarify if you mean in a small remote town, or right IN the wilderness.</p>
<p>Tourguide, I think you must be mixing Williams up with another place. </p>
<p>Actually, Williams is no where near a town or city. Williamstown is a New England village, hardly a town at all. The campus is surrounded by mountains. You can definitely look out your window and see the countryside!</p>
<p>James Madison U., is located in the Shenandoah Valley, and there are beautiful mountain views from the campus. JMU is a state school in Va.</p>
<p>Momrath, I've spent lots of time in Williamstown. My uncle was the basketball coach at Williams for 25 years. Yeah, it's in a small town/village, but the main street runs right through the middle of campus, and all but a few buildings are right in the middle of the town. You can SEE the mountains and the countryside in the distance, but it's not like they are right there. You'd have to walk through a lot of residential neighborhoods to get to the wilderness.</p>
<p>M-i-d-d-l-e-b-u-r-y!</p>
<p>People are giving you a lot of small liberal arts colleges. Is that what you have in mind?</p>
<p>I second University of Montana. Oh my gosh, it's gorgeous.</p>
<p>University of Connecticut</p>
<p>I second Humboldt State - in the redwoods, on the beach; great natural resouces dept, performing/visual arts dept; and about as remote as you can get but with a wonderfulsense of community</p>
<p>Not a university really, but magnificent surroundings:
Paul Smith's College
<a href="http://www.paulsmiths.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://www.paulsmiths.edu/</a></p>
<p>Beautiful and rural:</p>
<p>Dartmouth
Williams
Carleton
Colgate
Middlebury
Bucknell
Colby
Hamilton
Kenyon
St. Lawrence
Skidmore
Grinnell</p>
<p>Great thread. I'm looking for the same thing. I'll try to add my part, even though others have said most of the same. I'll stay away from LACs since I don't know much about them.</p>
<p>Montana - Has to top nearly everyone's beauty list. It isn't exactly in the woods, but it is nestled beneath a mountain with a gorgeous setting, nice architecture, and the nearby attractions for sightseeing are magnificent. Missoula is a pretty happening town from what I hear as well, so unlike most of the other rural beautiful campuses, it does have somewhat of a nightlife.</p>
<p>Western Washington - Just checking their site it gives you a pretty good picture of the location and beauty of the campus. Lots of trees, right on the water, best of both worlds. This one really is "in the woods". Lots of rain though is the downside (especially during school months).</p>
<p>Kansas - Not mentioned much in this regard, but is a scenic campus with lots of trees and Lawrence is breathtaking with the rolling hills and such. Also has strong athletics and academics.</p>
<p>Virginia Tech - Near the mountains and the forest as well, and is very beautiful archictecturally. Always rates as one of the top schools for campus food, and the layout of the campus is great. One of the nicest campuses you'll find as far as upkeep, architecture, and layout goes.</p>
<p>Colorado-Boulder - Loads of money but just amazing in a scenic sense. Mountains are right there and the style of architecture is beautiful and continuous across campus. Boulder is also a hip town and the school is one of the biggest party schools in the country.</p>
<p>Those are all lovely campuses that collegeparents lists, but at least two of them certainly do not have forests or good views: Bucknell or Kenyon. Skidmore is in a woods but they are not forests, at least not right there.</p>
<p>UNC Asheville
Western Carolina :)
Berry College
Grinnell
Washington & Lee
College of the Atlantic
Marlboro
Juniata
University of the South</p>
<p>Middleburyyy
also, whitman on the west coast is sooo pretty, although its in town of about 25,000 people</p>
<p>Tourguide, well of course, Williams is college with 2000 kids and faculty and support staff living nearby. So naturally you have buildings and houses. If it were pristine wilderness it wouldn't be college. The whole community's only about 8000 if I remember correctly. </p>
<p>You can cross country ski, take forest hikes, swim in streams and commune with cows within walking distance of your room and you see the mountains at every turn. If Williams doesn't qualify as a beautiful rural campus I can't imagine what would. </p>
<p>This is actually quite funny as I'm usually arguing that Williams isn't as remote as people would expect.</p>
<p>THANKS FOR ALL OF THE SUGGESTIONS...
to clarify
* it doesnt have to be in the middle of no where.....I just dont want to go to a school in a town of a million people..you know</p>
<p>Didn't the OP say RURAL?</p>
<p>Western Washington University is attractive but it is in no way situated in a rural setting. Yes, lots of woods in and around the campus. But not rural. Bellingham is a small city; a declining former factory/port town, and WWU is definitely in Bellingham.</p>
<p>Washington State University, a land grant college, is quite rural and set among the rolling hills and wheat fields of the Palouse rarea, one of the great bread basket and produce regions of North America.</p>
<p>If you really want to be dropped in the middle of nowhere, there's paul smith's college in the adirondacks. it's like you're practically camping and there will be snow. it's also got about 200 students and is pretty crummy, but if all you care about is being nowhere, it's fine.</p>