<p>Hello,</p>
<p>Can anyone recommend any colleges that are good academically but are also located in a mountainous region. I love to hike and be in the outdoors so any suggestions would be great!</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Clemson and Virginia Tech are in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains</p>
<p>The Claremont Colleges are located at the base of a mountain.
Your might want to look at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington.
Then there is Middlebury.</p>
<p>University of California- Berkely
University of Colorado- Boulder
Pennslyvania State University- University Park
University of California- Los Angeles
Arizona State University
University of Arizona
Dartmouth
Cornell University
University of Washington- Seattle</p>
<p>LOL @ Coolbreeze’s list</p>
<p>UC-Berkeley/UCLA/Arizona State/Arizona are in cities
Cornell is in the middle of nowhere (no mountains)
Penn State is still near mountains but there aren’t as many outdoor activities</p>
<p>I second the suggestion of Whitman 
best outdoors program in the country in my opinion</p>
<p>UNC- Asheville. They have some mountains not too far and a great outdoors place.</p>
<p>UNC-Asheville is great too!</p>
<p>Colorado College.</p>
<p>To post 5</p>
<p>I know the UC’s and Arizona’s are within cities, but a mountain ranges can be found within 20 minutes of the metro, and these are ranges worth the drive.</p>
<p>When looking at Pennslyvania State University- University Park location, there couldn’t possibly be any less out door activities as you would find with a university in a large city ( which is many). I think PSU- University Park has many outdoor activities, but not completely sure.</p>
<p>University of Colorado at Boulder and Wyoming U (not far from mtns) are some other schools which you may like.</p>
<p>skidmore, williams, vassar, amherst… tons of small liberal arts colleges</p>
<p>Colorado College.</p>
<p>Although they are more coastal than mountainous, the Maine LACs (Bowdoin, Colby, Bates) are good options for someone who enjoys hiking.</p>
<p>Duke is one of the best options among elite universities, with [miles</a> of forest](<a href=“http://www.dukeforest.duke.edu/]miles”>http://www.dukeforest.duke.edu/) within short biking distance of campus (although the terrain is admittedly flat).</p>
<p>Cornell might not be in the mountains, but “Ithaca is gorges”! ;)</p>
<p>Now Duke has mountains near its campus. Gee, I never knew that!</p>
<p>haha UNC-Asheville is in the great smoky mountains, Duke is 2-3 hours away from them</p>
<p>Colorado School of Mines
CU Boulder
Colorado College
Northern Arizona University
University of Utah
BYU
Westminster College (UT)
University of New Hampshire (?)
University of Arizona
UAA (but don’t do it)</p>
<p>I can’t bring myself to call the Blueridge “mountains”.</p>
<p>Anything in Vermont.</p>
<p>Anything along the corridor from Albany to Syracuse, NY. </p>
<p>Just for the fun of it I just went to google maps. I typed in “Albany” which gave me a map of the Adirondacks. Then I typed in “colleges” and then you can play around with the map. Center it in different spots, zoom in and out. I got at least 20 colleges within a minute. I’m not sure if this link will work:</p>
<p>[Google</a> Maps](<a href=“http://maps.google.com/*****l]Google”>http://maps.google.com/*****l)</p>
<p>And based on location this is the one I’d go to if I were in your (hiking) shoes:</p>
<p>[Adirondack</a> Community College](<a href=“http://www.sunyacc.edu/]Adirondack”>http://www.sunyacc.edu/)</p>
<p>University of Virginia - Charlottesville
University of Pittsburgh / Carnegie Mellon Univ (ok it’s in a city but Appalachia is nearby)</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Marquette University or Northern Michigan University (in Michigan) is near the Porcupine Mountains?</p>
<p>Marquette University is in Milwaukee, nowhere near the UP of Michigan. I think you are referring to Northern Michigan University in Marquette. The so called Porcupine Mountains are really just hills. No point in the state of Michigan is higher than 2000 feet.</p>