<p>Just wondering if freshmen can bring a car to campus? If so, where do they park? Do students tend to go to Minneapolis on the occasional weekend. If so, what do they go there to do.</p>
<p>Yes, first-years can bring cars to campus. I believe you’re assigned a parking lot but on the weekends, you can park pretty much anywhere. [Carleton</a> College: Security Services: Vehicle and Parking Regulations](<a href=“http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/security/vehicles/]Carleton”>http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/security/vehicles/)</p>
<p>Some students go on trips during some weekends or weeknights. I think people tend to go up for concerts and other random events.</p>
<p>Note that if you choose not to bring a car, there’s the Northfield Lines bus system that you can use to go to Mall of America or MSP or Minneapolis. Tickets are $13 one way.</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Check out Enterprise Car Share on campus. A cheap and convenient alternative to your own car and it’s inevitable headaches and costs. Rent by the hour Zip Car like.</p>
<p>My sense is that although cars are freely allowed and parking is plentiful, very few freshman actually bring cars to campus. Few students find that leaving campus by car is important to them in the first year. There is so much going on in the ‘Carleton-bubble’ and in Northfield, and such easy access by bus to off campus things that many cars students do bring sit largely unused. Exceptions are students who have a regular appointment off campus or the few who come from nearby towns. It is certainly fine to bring a car, and some do. But, as a parent, I would say it is certainly not important to send a car with a Carleton freshman.</p>
<p>So how do Chicagoland kids tend to get back and forth from home to school?</p>
<p>There’s a megabus (literally called the “megabus”) that takes Chicago kids straight from Carleton to Chicago and vice versa. Some Chicago students also carpool.</p>
<p>Generally students from the coasts or further away fly to MSP and then take the Northfield Lines bus from the airport to campus. From Chicago or similar areas there are usually public transit (train, bus) options to the Twin Cities, and then Northfield bus to campus.</p>
<p>Is there anything worth driving to that isn’t in Minneapolis? Not trying to be mean, but I wasn’t picking up much beyond the cornfields on my visits to the area.</p>