Schools with an outdoorsy culture within 5-6 hours drive

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Emory & Henry - spend a semester hiking the AT https://www.ehc.edu/outdoor-program/semester-atrail/

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Anonymous wrote:St. Lawrence in Canton NY

+1. You can go all-in with a semester in the Adirondacks living in a yurt. Don’t forget your long-johns.

If you're on the STEM side, also Clarkson. It's next door.

Quite a bit more than 6 hours though.

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Anonymous wrote:Radford for sure. Even has a major for people who want to work in parks and recreational tourism.

https://www.radford.edu/content/cehd/home/rcpt.html

https://www.radford.edu/content/recreation/home/outdoor-programs.html

Yes! My suggestion was for RU. It’s in the New River Valley with many recreational opportunities!

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Anonymous wrote:St. Lawrence in Canton NY

+1. You can go all-in with a semester in the Adirondacks living in a yurt. Don’t forget your long-johns.

If you're on the STEM side, also Clarkson. It's next door.

Quite a bit more than 6 hours though.

True, it is probably 8 from this area.

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Anonymous wrote:W&L has a great outdoor program.

Outing Club. Most popular extracurricular at W&L.

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Warren Wilson

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Anonymous wrote:West Virginia University for sure

I went to WVU and there wasn't much outdoor culture. Unless you count drinking in Sunnyside and street parties to be outdoorsy.
It is a fun school. So much fun that I have to leave after 2 years because I needed to go somewhere that I could graduate!

Sunnyside isn't what it used to be. The school bought a lot of the property and created some new student apartment complexes. There's still parties, of course--but not what you remember.

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UNC Asheville is kind of a commuter school. Looked at it for our DD. I let her go far away, to California and she spends all her time outside hiking, surfing, biking...I am very glad I let her go.

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Anonymous wrote:UNC Asheville is kind of a commuter school. Looked at it for our DD. I let her go far away, to California and she spends all her time outside hiking, surfing, biking...I am very glad I let her go.

Is she at UCSB or UCSD?

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Va Tech

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UNC Ashland

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SUNY New Paltz. Most have not heard of it. But literally like set of Gilmore Girls by Mohonk Mountain and Rocking Horse Ranch.

Really cool and hip and outdoorsy

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They may be a little far, but Middlebury and Williams.

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Anonymous wrote:West Virginia University for sure

I went to WVU and there wasn't much outdoor culture. Unless you count drinking in Sunnyside and street parties to be outdoorsy.
It is a fun school. So much fun that I have to leave after 2 years because I needed to go somewhere that I could graduate!

Sunnyside isn't what it used to be. The school bought a lot of the property and created some new student apartment complexes. There's still parties, of course--but not what you remember.

Probably not. I was there when WVU beat UNLV in basketball in 1983 when UNLV was a heavily favored #1 ranked powerhouse. The ensuing revelry led to much of Sunnyside being set on fire. It's good the school bought it and cleaned it up.

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New paltz:

Very nice location but many on dcum will likely turn up their noses at its reputation.