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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Carleton. The Cowling Arboretum, Lyman Lakes, and Cannon River are on campus (or run through campus) and make for great hiking, biking, running, and kayaking. In the winter there’s cross country skiing (and downhill skiing at an artificial slope 20 min away) in the Arb and skating on the Bald Spot. Lots of natural beauty![/quote]
Hiking in Minnesota is an absolute joke. The coasts are where this student needs to go.[/quote]

Spoken like someone who has never been. There’s 15 miles of trails on Carleton’s campus, starting about a 1 min walk from the nearest dorm, almost all of which are out of sight of roads. Few if any of the schools you are thinking of can say the same. You have a narrow view of hiking and the outdoors. [/quote]
Would you like to elaborate on what schools I’m “thinking of?” Hiking isn’t just walking on flat trails either, and [b]a student who’s really outdoorsy would be bored out of their mind in Northfield[/b].[/quote]

That’s funny, cause our very hardcore outdoorsy CA kid who in high school enjoyed things like hiking the tallest mountain in the continental US, multi-day bike trips, skiing, surfing, rafting, and trips to the desert found the outdoors scene at Carleton so alluring they considered moving to Minnesota. Having an immersive 800 acre arboretum, river, and lakes at your dorm’s doorstep is rare. Some outdoorsy types want nature every day, not just on road trips. [/quote]
That’s just a few bodies of water. It’s like calling uchicago outdoorsy, since the lake is only a few blocks away. There’s a ton of schools with a lot more nature that aren’t “road trips” away. You’re literally from California (must not be SoCal with this bizarre opinion) and don’t understand that?[/quote]

Yes, SoCal. Across both our kids we visited about 30 schools and felt Carleton had the most nature.  [/quote]

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