George Mason, Great Falls, Rock Creek nearby. DC a metro ride away.

Loyola Marymount is 10 minutes from the ocean and in LA (so more than a decent sized town) - lots of nature within a short drive.

University of Utah

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Anonymous wrote:University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.

NYU

For Nature?

Washington Square park is near by.

lots of self-identified wildlife

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Anonymous wrote:University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida.

NYU

For Nature?

Washington Square park is near by.

Unless things have changed a lot, Wake isn’t walkable to a cute town. The campus is gorgeous and much of what you need is right there on campus. You can get to shopping, restaurants, etc with a car. Winston itself wasn’t much to write home about, but it did have all the basics.

I loved going to school there, but it doesn’t seem to fit what OP is looking for.

Ohio University

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Anonymous wrote:Working on the college list and child is focused on schools with access to both nature and a decent sized town. Examples, University of Vermont, some schools in Colorado. Others?

Isn't that pretty much any college with a 5K+ student body but not in a large city?

+1 Unless you are smack in the middle of an urban core, you have access to nature. Heck, Central Park is almost a 1,000 acres.

So I was right in suggesting NYU--even though I intended it to be a humorous selection.

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Anonymous wrote:Working on the college list and child is focused on schools with access to both nature and a decent sized town. Examples, University of Vermont, some schools in Colorado. Others?

Isn't that pretty much any college with a 5K+ student body but not in a large city?

+1 Unless you are smack in the middle of an urban core, you have access to nature. Heck, Central Park is almost a 1,000 acres.

Berry College
27,000 acres - world’s largest campus

https://www.berry.edu/about/campus
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_College

Rome, Ga population 37,746 (2021)
Floyd County, GA population 98,771 (2021)

Their student work program, Lifeworks, is very popular. While not required, most students participate at some time. It is designed to offer meaningful experience with the opportunity for increased responsibility.
https://www.berry.edu/articles/blog/2021/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-lifeworks

UW-Madison. It has the town and “the nature.”

Agree with UC Santa Cruz, University of Oregon, CU Boulder and adding Oregon State, University of Washington

Stanford

Anonymous wrote:Working on the college list and child is focused on schools with access to both nature and a decent sized town. Examples, University of Vermont, some schools in Colorado. Others?

Isn't that pretty much any college with a 5K+ student body but not in a large city?

Amherst/UMass/Smith/Mt. Holyoke/Hampshire