<p>What colleges are in highly forested areas? Thanks.</p>
<p>Lake Forest College…the name says everything!</p>
<p>I don’t know much about Wake Forest University though.</p>
<p>Seriously, though, . . . Northland College
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SLUMOM
October 22, 2010, 7:26am
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<p>[Paul</a> Smith’s College - Division of Forestry, Natural Resources, and Recreation](<a href=“http://www.paulsmiths.edu/forestry/]Paul ”>Forestry Bachelor's (B.S.) Degree Program )</p>
<p>[Paul</a> Smith’s College - The College of the Adirondacks](<a href=“http://www.paulsmiths.edu/]Paul ”>http://www.paulsmiths.edu/ )</p>
<p>Check out Paul Smiths in the Adirondacks, see if anything interests you.</p>
<p>I heard Wake Forest and Susquehanna are amidst wilderness. As is UC Santa Cruz.</p>
GTalum
October 22, 2010, 8:05am
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<p>Wake is not admist wilderness. It’s in a very suburban area. But, there a are a ton of schools which are in remote areas. You’ll have to narrow down by geography, big/small, selectivity ect.</p>
<p>Sewanee [The</a> Domain | Make it your Domain | Sewanee: The University of the South](<a href=“Your Domain | The University of the South ”>Your Domain | The University of the South )</p>
GRITS80
October 22, 2010, 8:13am
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<p>Sewanee:The University of the South</p>
<p>Anything in Maine.</p>
gadad
October 22, 2010, 10:54am
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<p>Wake Forest was originally in a town called Wake Forest, NC before it moved to Winston-Salem in 1956. It’s not in a forest, though it is nicely wooded and green.</p>
<p>Evergreen State College</p>
<p>UC Santa Cruz is amazing. Forest all the way. Look into Duke. Their campus isn’t as integrated into forests as UCSC however. But they do have forests around and the famous Sarah P. Duke Gardens.</p>
<p>University of Wisconsin</p>
SLUMOM
October 22, 2010, 12:58pm
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<p>Wisconsin, seriously? I don’t think the OP’s definition of “forest” means the City of Madison with population of 208,000 & public transportation.</p>
<p>Have you been to Madison? It doesn’t get more rural. Drive ten minutes and you are seriously in the wilderness of middle america.</p>
<p>There have been many threads on this before…learning to use the search function would prove highly beneficial.</p>
<p>A few suggestions cobbled together from various related threads:
hudsonvalley51:
Bard College: Sited along the Hudson River in the middle of the 20-mile long Hudson River National Historic Landmark District. The college is adjacent to the Tivoli Bays state nature preserve, a 500 acre natural park administered by NYS DEC. The Bard campus incorporates a couple of former country estates.
hmom5:
Dartmouth may be a little more than medium hard to get into, depending on your definition, but it’s the ultimate in this regard. On a major river, connecting to the Appalachian trial with it’s own lodge in the woods and properties throughout the trail, not to mention it’s own ski hill and proximity to beautiful countryside.
mimom:
Check out Lewis & Clark in Portland, OP. It’s situated among the trees on a hill just outside Portland. Lots of trees, ferns and Mount Hood views. The school has one of the best Outdoor Club programs. My daughter, who is a sophomore there, says there’s something going on almost every weekend (caving expeditions, mushroom hunting trips, canoe or river rafting trips, etc.). It’s one of the things she likes best about this school – access to an urban environment in nearby Portland (10 min. by car) and very outdoorsy feel, too.
SimpleLife:
Alfred University in western NY state, in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains – Finger Lakes region, and Sewanee: The University of the South in Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau, between Nashville and Chatanooga. Both are supposed to be very attractive to, and satisfying for, outdoor enthusiasts. Both are somewhat remote. I think particularly Sewanee.
Eldenna:
Whitman College</p>
<p>-located in Walla Walla, Wa. Southeastern part of the state, really close to Oregon.*
SeniorSlacker:
I can confirm the program at Whitman. It’s called Semester in the West where students and a faculty advisor travel the West Coast learning about environmental issues from the various groups involved e.g. loggers, farmers, environmental groups etc. </p>
<p>There’s much outdoors-wise in the vicinity of the Whitman campus. Though situated in the (small, small) city of Walla Walla, Whitman often leads trips to the Outdoor Program to the nearby Blue Mountains, the Columbia River, and many other places. (I personally am not familiar with the OP’s offerings, but it will suffice to say that Eastern Washington has many places that would attract a nature-enthusiast.)
whyOwhy:
Appalachian State maybe?
pierre0913:
Clemson University and Virginia Tech are located in the Blue Ridge Mountains and there are plenty of outdoor activities. Clemson is on the shores of Lake Hartwell and is surrounded by a couple thousand acres of forests called the Clemson Experimental Forest where there are numerous hiking trails.</p>
<p>what about UNC-Asheville or St. Mary’s College of Maryland. UNC-Asheville is a good public liberal arts school (cheap) and is right next to the Great Smoky Mountains. St. Mary’s College of Maryland is basically on the Chesapeake Bay and is in a beautiful area.
Eldenna:
University of Puget Sound*</p>
<p>-fairly small LAC in Tacoma, WA (45 mins away from Seattle)
<p>I dunno, Washington is just a pretty good place for outdoor opportunities *
vegan_girl:
Evergreen State?
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<p>Why do you want to go to college in a forest? What if you get eaten by a bear, and get really really hurt? I don’t want to say die because that’s too scary.</p>