<p>Hopefully this gets some interest. What cities which host a university/college are the most scenic? Not just the campus, like the "prettiest campus" thread, but moreso the town and surrounding areas.</p>
<p>I find part of this answer similar to the nicest campus in the sense of nice quaint town and rolling pleasant surrounding countryside my favorites would be Dartmouth/Hanover, NH; Williams/Williamstown, MA, Middlebury/Middlebury, VT; Colgate/Hamilton, NY; Cornell/Ithaca, NY. If you're talking more prototypical, livelier college towns, I would include Princeton/Princeton, NJ; UNC/Chapel Hill, NC; UVM/Burlington, VT; UVA/Charlottesville, VA; Northwestern/Evanston, IL; Skidmore/Saratoga Springs, NY.</p>
<p>i will tell you one thing, it's not bloomington, in</p>
<p>i personally really like cambridge, MA and also boston, MA (harvard/MIT - although harvard has a much better location - and BU or SUFFOLK especially is in a nice area)</p>
<p>WuSTL and Clayton (beautiful suburb of St. Louis)</p>
<p>It depends what you want - Bates in Maine is supposed to be in a gorgeous, quaint area.</p>
<p>Then again, maybe you like UCSD right out on the beach?</p>
<p>Or ...Evergreen State College in Washington - from what I understand - is in a forrested area. </p>
<p>So it depends.</p>
<p>Bloomington, Indiana is a really great place. Also, the area around Bloomington is not super flat--it's rather pretty...same with the area around U of Iowa and Iowa City.</p>
<p>...goes to University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB).</p>
<p>NYU</p>
<p>but everyone has their own image of beautiful</p>
<p>I was going to say Bloomington is a great surrounding college town.
Elsi probably hasn't ever been there.</p>
<p>NYU? You've got to be kidding.</p>
<p>The thread is "Most Scenic"... you may like New York City, and I won't argue with that since everybody likes different towns, but I will argue with that fitting in with the thread at hand. NYC is by no means SCENIC. Mountains, beaches, forests, etc. would classify as scenic. Something to do with nature... and nature hardly exists in NYC.</p>
<p>well i retract my BU/Suffolk statement then, ha, although i do think beacon hill and boston in general is really "scenic" for a city, historically and architecturally scenic, that is</p>
<p>I've heard Bloomington is a great looking town...</p>
<p>I'd go with College of the Atlantic (COA) in Bar Harbor, ME. One of the most scenic, gorgeous cities in the country.</p>
<p>Western Washington in Bellingham
University of Washington's pretty nice if you look east over the lake
Ah, heck, let's face it -- Washington is pretty much just chock full of scenery</p>
<p>University of Portland has a nice view over the Willamette River.</p>
<p>Someone beat me to UC San Diego</p>
<p>Humboldt State</p>
<p>Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp is really pretty, too.</p>
<p>I haven't seen everything, but of those I have seen this is the one I prefer:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.priweb.org/ed/finger_lakes/nystate_geo4.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.priweb.org/ed/finger_lakes/nystate_geo4.html</a>
<a href="http://www.pbase.com/unexplained_bacon/ithaca_area%5B/url%5D">http://www.pbase.com/unexplained_bacon/ithaca_area</a></p>
<p>Santa Fe, Colorado Springs, Denver, Austin, and Chapel Hill to name a few.</p>
<p>I think it's hard to beat the University of Hawaii at Manoa.</p>
<p>Sakky:</p>
<p>I dunno about that....with The Bus blowing smoke...and the bad traffic...and high humidity. I like visiting relatives, but it's definitely a large city. More like Taiwan or Hong Kong than say Northhampton, MA. :)</p>
<p>PS--love the boogie boarding and the North Shore though. And, Manoa Valley is pretty cool, even with all the rain. :)</p>
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<p>Well, hey, you mentioned places like Denver and Austin. Denver's got some pretty snarly traffic. Austin ain't exactly balmy, especially not during the summer. Both of these cities have larger populations than Honolulu does.</p>
<p>New York City beats ALL.</p>
<p>Not quite scenic (but actually very scenic if you live on the 86th floor of a highrise esp at night) but who cares when you're living in the like, EVERYTHING capital of the world?</p>
<p>As much as I like visiting Manhattan once in a while, I would rather have my teeth drilled without anesthetic than live in New York for four years. YMMV.</p>