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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our outdoorsy child was completely bored on our Carleton tour and struck it off his list 4 minutes into the tour. No mountains or geography of interest, just flatness for miles. It’s got some nice plants around campus, but nothing to satiate his interests. His now at Middlebury and recently solidified a great internship with optiver.  Would highly recommend.[/quote]

The tour does not enter the arb.  It’s too large, so they recommend it to explore on your own. Some families skip it and never know what they missed. [/quote]
We went. [b]It’s nothing interesting or important. [/b]The school should honestly use it to expand. I guess it’s cool if you’ve never been in a forest before, but our family is from San Francisco and it just bored us [/quote].

An arboretum on campus with a forest (and river and prarie) is not interesting or important [i]to you[/i], and that’s totally fine. Many others like stuff like that, even many from San Francisco.

Even if they wanted to, I do not think the college could expand into the arb because of how it was deeded, but I don’t think they would need or want that. They have 200 additional acres for buildings, and some recent expansions involved purchases of properties on the other town side of campus facing the town. They highly value the preserve, which is both a top tourist attraction for that area of Minnesota and an educational resource. It is not uncommon for students and faculty to mention the arboretum as one of the things they like most about Carleton.

You can read more about in the link below. There’s every kind of poster on DCUM including those who think Runner’s World selecting Carleton’s arboretum as one of the top 10 locations for running in the entire country is totally irrelevant to an outdoorsy student. Ok, that’s nice, I have no quarrel with you, but others  might find running, walking, biking, boating, and skiing through 15 miles of celebrated nature trails overlaps, at least in part, with their idea of outdoorsy.

https://mntrips.com/carleton-college-arboretum/[/quote]

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