<p>Five-college area in Massachusetts in my opinion. Really beautiful campuses (for the most part), in a great setting. :)</p>
<p>Deep Springs and Cornell for the outdoorsy experience, hands down.</p>
<p>I agree with Massachusetts. Beautiful state to have a bunch of elite colleges. Upstate New York is also a great setting for an Ivy League.</p>
<p>Tulane is a pretty awesome college setting in the midst of a one-of-a-kind place like New Orleans, but I don’t think it’s THE best. One of the best though.</p>
<p>I’d go with Dartmouth; Middlebury; the Maine schools</p>
<p>vinnyli, you realize that going to school in deep springs is akin to going to the desert? lol</p>
<p>hardly comparable to Cornell. lol</p>
<p>I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but I cannot get into any ivy league schools…</p>
<p>Michigan State University University of Michigan , basically look at college towns.</p>
<p>A lot of people have already said the things I would say…AKA schools in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.</p>
<p>No one has said University of Colorado at Boulder. This is an outdoors mecca. crazy good biking, skiing, hiking, camping. they have everything but a significant seized body of water.
University of Washington or other schools in the seattle area are great too</p>
<p>Bard is in a beautiful place.</p>
<p>Colorado is sounding almost perfect, but i heard everybody smokes weed there. Is that true? I am also interested in University of British Columbia, but apparently it has the same problem…</p>
<p>I would prefer to have the laid back outdoorsy atmosphere without the drugs, but they seem to go hand in hand.</p>
<p>Hope2getrice: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Deep Springs is so out in the open, isolated from everything, surrounded by valleys and vegetation and horses and cows. It has arguable the most liberating/outdoorsy campus of all colleges. I would have applied there had it not been for the 1% acceptance rate, no business major, no research opportunities, and 2-year college.</p>
<p>Outdoorsy schools attract hippies. Colorado is hippie haven. I once nearly got high on the fumes inside CU’s football stadium when I got dragged by my parents to a football game there.</p>
<p>CU has the nation’s largest 4/20 “gathering.” In fact school leadership has even chosen to embrace it (rather than fighting it). One thing I would not judge a place on is the prevalence of weed, though. Users of weed are average people who are not “druggies” – they just suffer from boredom and youth. I would however stay away from schools that are known for students using much harder drugs…these are going to be your urban hippie schools.</p>
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I mentioned it, but thanks for expanding upon the description zfox001!</p>
<p>You should definitely check out Virginia Tech if you are into scenic beauty and want to be able to enjoy outdoor activities. The Blue Ridge mountains surrounding VT offer so much to do: biking, hiking, canoeing, kayaking on the New River, camping, you name it. They rent out supplies from campus as well. It is an outdoorsy kid’s paradise! Good luck in your search!</p>
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<p>Middlebury and Dartmouth are outdoorsy, but not exactly hippie havens.
On a Colorado College thread, I did describe it as attracting “intellectual hippie jocks”.That does not necessarily make it a hippie haven or a drug haven. How about Whitman? Is that a hippie haven?</p>
<p>One study I saw (can’t remember where) said that substance abuse (especially alcohol,now) is highly correlated with 3 features: (1) a southern location (2) a rural location (3) a low percentage of Asian students. I suppose that means there would not be a lot of substance abuse at UC Berkeley?</p>
<p>University of Vermont</p>
<p>tk…it’s true that Dartmouth’s setting is beautiful…but is Dartmouth better known for academic rigor, or natural setting? Seriously. I’m just saying the schools better known for their natural setting than their academic rigor are going to be hippie schools…generally but not always.</p>
<p>Thanks for the continued input, I would prefer to keep the weather relatively mild so that rules out Maine, Vermont, Mass, and pretty much the whole east coast. I probably could handle Virginia though so I will keep that option open, but how is the weather in Boulder?</p>
<p>They snowboard there, so what do you think? lol</p>
<p>They have cold snowy winters in Boulder.</p>
<p>But they definitely do have 4 distinct seasons.</p>