<p>There’s Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO. Their campus is literally on a mountain. They have a pretty good science department, but their engineering is a little lacking. They also have a pretty kick-ass accounting program. I don’t know anyone who has graduated from that program who had issues getting hired. If you’d like more science-y schools, I recommend New Mexico Tech (very rural, but there are all kinds of mountains to explore and wide open llanos and canyons) and New Mexico State (which is near the Oregon mountains, very hot, but lots of cool natural resource stuff to do there). If you want to go full liberal arts, St. John’s Santa Fe campus has great outdoor programs and is in a very mountainous area. Colorado School of Mines (mentioned above) is also an excellent school, and requires it’s freshmen to hike up Mt. Zion (very lovely mountain) carrying a ten pound rock. (The students return every year to retrieve a rock from the top; it’s symbolic of the knowledge you gain and how you’re advancing to the next level. Or something like that.) Sorry if this is a wee bit Southwest biased, I just know those schools well.</p>