guy from TN wrote:
Sewanee, The University of the South.
Anyone who has been there will agree.
Indeed I will.
guy from TN wrote:
Sewanee, The University of the South.
Anyone who has been there will agree.
Indeed I will.
Berry College Rome, Ga. Largest campus acreage wise in the world. Tons of deer ( I see at least 30 every time I run there.) Big open fields on the main campus where they graze. Miles and Miles worth of dirt trails owned by the school. Trails include a mountain and cinder track to train on. Absolutely brilliant place to run at and just experience all together. Have produced runners like - Jay Stephenson- 14:17 5k, 8:50 3k steeple and they now have a girl who ran 17:45 for 5k and won by 40 seconds last week. Their coach is Paul Deaton and he runs a good team down there. They consistently have good runners on both teams and do not give scholarships. Also nearby Shorter college (now coached by Stephenson nearby trains there and have many fine runners themselves. Peter Limo- 1500-3:53, 800- low 1:50's. Eliud N'getich- 800- 1:48, just had a freshman run 15:04 indoors, several other strong runners on that team those are just the names and times that came to mind.
I agree. Dartmouth has it all. Great trails (including App. Trail). Great scenery. No traffic. Incredible network of golf courses and athletic fields all connected for grass/barefoot running. Open access to awesome outdoor and indoor tracks for bad weather (i.e. winter). Groomed hardpack xc ski trails on campus makes for a great winter running surface away from car traffic. New to me, but Deer and Moose too if you're into that...
BERRY
FURMAN!
Has anyone mentioned The University of Phoenix? No limit to the amount of miles and deer to chase.
Oberlin
UC Davis has some pretty good trails by a creek next to it, and there's a good campus vibe, plus there's bikes everywhere and bike paths too.
justme, theguy wrote:
Ely, MN (Vermillion College) has some nice trails through the Boundary Waters Canoe Areas. The roads around the lakes are pretty nice for long runs too.
I agree with MN, but DEFINITELY not anywhere near the boundary waters. There are no people within a 40 mile radius, the winters are brutal, and the trails are flooded with flies in the summer. Try out the Twin Cities, they are absolutely the best. I think they were even ranked the best city (or cities, whatever) for running. You can get urban and rural in the same run. And where I run just 3 minutes from the airport I have actually chased deer!
I visited Durango, Colorado a few summers ago, the running was great. And Fort Lewis College is there. I mean, it's a junior college, but it's still got that word college. So I guess it would be a neat college to run at, although only some of the running was on the college campus, so maybe it doesn't count. It was good stuff though.
How about Desales College in PA. I think it used to be called Allentown College. Lots of nice trails on campus.
But my vote has to go for Southern CT. West Rock trails are less than a mile from campus, nice residential streets in Hamden, you can run in the city if you want and their is alway Yale golf course and the resevoir right next to it. You can find lots of flat course and many pretty decent hilly courses as well.
Sewanee yes........Earlham no.......
you see THIRTY deer EVERY TIME you run there? Holy Schnikes! What time of day is this at? Are the deer only out at dawn and dusk, or are they there throughout the day as well? Are they just chilling in the campus all day long? What is the terrain/woods surrounding the campus like? Is it very thick and difficult to tramp through, or is it relatively not that dense? Deer tend to run in circles anyway, so if I chase 'em, I wonder if they'll stay on campus the whole time or if they'll wander off. These deer seem to be pretty tame, which means they'll probably be easier to chase after/track.
Lots of the other places mentioned seem pretty nice .... but it seems doubtful that any other place can match the deer chasing paradise that is Berry. Or is there another place that exists?
Dean of Cities wrote:
Dartmouth- tons of great trails, and you can chase moose or deer, your choice.
Agreed on the deer or moose question, but I was always a bit disappointed by the running at Dartmouth - it is so rural that there just aren't that many different loops.
Trails? The AT and golf course and what else?
5er wrote:
Dean of Cities wrote:Dartmouth- tons of great trails, and you can chase moose or deer, your choice.
Agreed on the deer or moose question, but I was always a bit disappointed by the running at Dartmouth - it is so rural that there just aren't that many different loops.
Trails? The AT and golf course and what else?
Oak Hill Twrails
bwlocki wrote:
5er wrote:Agreed on the deer or moose question, but I was always a bit disappointed by the running at Dartmouth - it is so rural that there just aren't that many different loops.
Trails? The AT and golf course and what else?
Oak Hill Twrails
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Ja, I forgot Oak Hill - back in the Lananna days we used to call that place Vin's Playground for the variety of workouts he put us through there.
o youth...
Oberlin!harhar
ZAP did their winter camp in Tallahassee again this year. My school's track is adjacent to a state park and across the street from a city park, both of which offer over 6 miles of wooded trails. Peter Rea generally had his gang warm up in the woods before hitting the track. In addition to ZAP, the Providence group (Molly Huddle, et al) and the Boulder group (when Ritz & the Torres brothers were in it) have done winter stints here. Total kick to look out my office window & watch the stars burn up the oval! We generally open up the track to any visiting group who gives advance notice. For more on Tally trails, visit
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Gary Droze
Track/XC Coach
Maclay School
Gary Droze is correct. Tallahassee has wonderful trails. Furman is a beautiful campus, but the trails are so so. They used to have a great rails to trails trail that ran through the campus, but they PAVED it last year. Unbelievable.
It sounds like Ungulate University ("UU" to the locals) is the place where you want to go and is considered one of the top deer colleges in the country. Back in the day, the school was about 90% deer. With affirmative action, the economy, and global warming, there has been an influx of llamas in recent years, but it is still 70%+ whitetails. One advantage - if you are looking for horny students or cameltoes, you will see them there.
Their Kenyan foreign exchange program is developing, but I hear the tommy gazelles that have been coming in aren't even worth chasing - way too fast for the average letsrunner. I personally think it is their genetics, not their training, in this case at least.
If it is deer you want try Western State College in Gunnison Colorado. You can chase deer right from campus up into the hills forever. Warm in the summer and cold in the winter. But you can run forever and see lots of deer.