<p>Having not been on many large campus how easy is it to get around the school? Can you walk to all classes or do you need to take a bus, car or bike? How about when we visit? We plan on spending some time exploring by orusleves so can we park and walk around? Where should we go on campus? Any suggestions needed and appreciated. Thanks.</p>
<p>Think of the Bama campus like having a core area, quadrant areas, and peripheral areas.</p>
<p>There’s the Bama Quad area buildings…where most of the Core Curriculum classes are held. </p>
<p>There’s the Quadrant areas…NE, SE, SW, NW…which are outside of the Quad buildings. Each Quadrant has certain majors. The STEM majors tend to have their classes in the NE Quadrant of campus.</p>
<p>There’s the periphery areas…these are the areas that are further out than the Quadrant areas…this is where the dorms are, some of the dining halls, the rec center, health center, etc are located.</p>
<p>Therefore, an engineering student who is living in the honors dorms will mostly be taking classes in the NE section of campus.</p>
<p>I need to find that link that Feeno posted which will further explain.</p>
<p>yes, there is the Crimson Ride trams for kids who want to take a bus to other parts of campus. However, most kids just walk or ride their bikes. My kids mostly walked.</p>
<p>Ok…here’s the pic that Feeno posted…</p>
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<p>Here’s what I posted regarding that pic</p>
<p>Yes…the school owns a good bit of land…including the land that the Greek houses, and many churches, the temple, and some businesses sit upon. And of course the periphery practice fields for various sports and their stadiums…many sports have their own venue. </p>
<p>So, the majority of that periphery land is not where students are walking on a daily basis. </p>
<p>The upper horizonal black line in the cropped pic is where honors housing is.</p>
<p>The upper right corner of the black lined rectangle is where the new Science and Engineering Complex is. </p>
<p>If you were to further divide that black rectangle into quadrants, the upper right quadrant would be the science/engineering area where all their buildings are located. </p>
<p>Many of the buildings in that lower right quadrant are also math/science as well. That “black front” wide building in the lower quadrant of the black rectangle looks that way because its brick has been removed and is being remodeled and made much larger…there’s a large “add-on” behind that building that can’t be seen in the pic. That is Russell Hall, the former College of Nursing. I don’t know what its future is. The building above it is also being remodeled.</p>
<p>So, along with Phase IV of the SEC, the remod of Russell Hall (and its add on) and the remod of the building next to it will bring much more academic space to the campus. </p>
<p>The humanities/liberal arts buildings are mostly in the upper left quadrant.</p>
<p>The business, education, and (I think) communications buildings are mostly in the lower left quadrant.</p>
<p>Rose Towers (dorm) is that tall, reddish building above the upper black line, by the river. That’s what’s being torn down this summer. The new building to it’s right, is its replacement and soon will be complete. Then, another new dorm will be built on the Rose Towers site.</p>
<p>The Riverwalk and The Park at Manderson Landing are both located along the Black Warrior River you see. The Park is located right above the honors dorms and the Riverwalk is located to the left.</p>
<p>In the lower left quadrant, along the black line, you see some very red Alabama clay dirt from new construction…yes…that’s the color of dirt here in the state!</p>
<p>Crimson Ride Routes</p>
<p><a href=“http://crimsonride.ua.edu/images/2010-maps/Crimson-Ride-handout.pdf[/url]”>http://crimsonride.ua.edu/images/2010-maps/Crimson-Ride-handout.pdf</a></p>
<p>When my son and I first visited 'Bama, we printed out a map and walked the entire campus on our own (we took the various tours the next day). It was nightfall by the time we were through, but it was a wonderful experience just discovering it on our own and having random encounters with folks. I’ll never forget standing on a scaffold perched behind the right field fence at the baseball stadium at twilight, chatting over the wall with varsity players who were so eager to learn where we were from and to proudly tell us how good their season was going to be. I knew then that this was a magical place.</p>
<p>I agree with Malanai. You’ll have fun exploring on foot (wear comfortable shoes!) One of the best parts for us was happening upon Goldie, the sleeping robot statue in Woods Quad [Dialog</a> - UA Faculty & Staff News Woods Quad Robot Sculpture Draws Attention, Provokes Thought](<a href=“http://dialog.ua.edu/2009/06/woods-quad-robot-sculpture-draws-attention-provokes-thought/]Dialog”>http://dialog.ua.edu/2009/06/woods-quad-robot-sculpture-draws-attention-provokes-thought/)
We got some great photos and left with a real feel for the place :)</p>
<p>Yes, wear comfortable shoes! …and bring something in case weather changes and/or rain.</p>
<p>Wow. Ask and you shall receive. thanks for the information!!! Looking forward to the visit</p>