<p>haverford</a> college - Google Maps</p>
<p>How far does a student need to go to get to restaurants and coffee houses from campus? Can you walk?</p>
<p>How safe is it on campus and the surrounding area?</p>
<p>HC is about 20 minutes from downtown center city and is an open campus that attracts many people onto campus. In this setting, anything is possible.</p>
<p>Regardless, it’s very safe (can walk campus at night) without too much concern.</p>
<p>The surrounding area, primarily Lancaster Ave, is a busy street so it’s safe to walk at most times… perhaps except in the middle of the night although my friends and I use to go on midnight WaWa runs back in the day. It’s a pretty wealthy area… there’s a Ferrari dealership 1 mile from campus and plenty of great restaurants within walking distance… whether a student can afford to go to such places on a frequent basis is another issue. Plenty of affordable good places as well. I recall an IHOP and a Starbucks within a 5 minute walk of the main entrance. The coffee in Lunt cafe was better though…</p>
<p>Thanks. Son was looking for options to quickly walk outside of campus to get a breath of fresh air, you might say, a change of pace. Not a bar since his is not an imbiber of alcohol, but cheap little sandwich / coffeeshops. restaurants probably not the right word, places that poor students can go to get away off campus w/o too much effort, cost , or time. Even a park, maybe ; and ideally a hot zone.</p>