<p>Is there anything to do in Hanover off campus. It seems like the campus is in the middle of no where. Can someone please tell me if theyre is anything to do off campus.</p>
<p>Try the coffee shop in Hanover. It has twenty-one different coffees on tap! We're New Yorkers, and we thought it was very cosmopolitan. It seemed like a metropolis to us in comparison to Williamstown. DS preferred Williams!</p>
<p>Yes, the coffeeshop is fantastic (although it closes early), but the town is very small and isolated (although, it is more than a tiny half-block strip mall of 3-4 stores like Williamstown... there are several blocks of stores and a few restaurants). There's nothing to do anywhere off campus for hours around, unless you like hiking, bicycling, etc. However, Dartmouth is a great school and that more than makes up for it.</p>
<p>If you're expecting New York City, you won't get it. </p>
<p>That said, I rarely went off campus during my four years there. The Hopkins Center has 300+ shows annually, there are lectures and activities constantly. </p>
<p>Off campus, there are a lot of service opportunities in the community--at the Haven, Leaven, Habitat, etc. If you're into the outdoors, off-campus is literally anywhere in northern New England. The Appalachian Trail was about 200 feet behind my freshman dorm. Hikes to Velvet Rocks, Mt. Gile, Mt. Moosilauke, Mt. Cardigan, and the Presidentials are common, as are rock-climbing expeditions, canoeing and kayaking through Ledyard, and more. </p>
<p>If you're looking for an occasional getaway off campus, people go to Montreal and Boston for weekends. But if you're looking for a gritty urban scene, Hanover is probably not for you.</p>
<p>I really don't get what there is to do in a city anyway. I mean i've lived in a major urban city my whole life. The only time i go out is for food, shopping, karaoke, concerts, movies, plays, cricket games, paintballing etc. You can do all that stuff on any college campus. 'city life' sort of defeats its purpose if youre going to college.</p>
<p>sick, you paintball? I wonder if there's some place in Hanover to play</p>
<p>i think dartmouth has a paintball club :-D</p>
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<p>Hanover is a beautiful new england town with lots of restaurants, a couple of bars, really nice organic grocery store, a GAP, a small movie theater, etc. About 5 miles away is west lebanon/ WRJ which have a population of about 75K people. The truth is that people usually only go into the surrounding area every once in a while, Dartmouth is its own world with more than enough so that you'll never get bored.</p>
<p>Lebanon has a population of like 13,000-ish and WRJ is like... 3,000. I would say collectively, the Upper Valley has about 75k. West Lebanon does have the 'bare necessities', if you will (i.e. Borders, Best Buy, K-Mart, Home Depot) but nothing terribly exciting. I don't believe that 'city life' necessarily 'defeats itself if you're going to college.' There are things to do around campus -- not always what you want to do at that given time. If you're looking for any glimmer of urban life, you won't find it anywhere near Hanover.</p>
<p>Those 75k people are spread out over an enormous area that takes hours to drive around.</p>
<p>But why should that matter? all that means is that the city basically belongs to the students of dartmouth college. As far as we're concerned hanover is part of dartmouth, not the other way around :-D</p>
<p>It matters because that's not what everyone wants. I'm sure that many people, including you, like that "hanover is part of Dartmouth." But not everyone likes the idea of being at a college so isolated. Many people want to be in a college within a city, which is why those people probably shouldn't go to Dartmouth.</p>