But that equation probably should include retirees too: The city includes several communities designed for seniors. Some locals say Claremont is all about “trees and Ph.Ds,” because more than 20,000 trees grow on public property in town, not far from the California Botanic Garden and Claremont Hills Wilderness Park.
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Options for visitors include the 28-room boutique hotel Casa 425 the art-house movie theaters at the Laemmle Claremont 5 and A Shop Called Quest, an Indian Hill Boulevard business devoted to comic books, graphic novels, gaming and such. The Packing House is a vast, converted citrus-packing structure that now houses dozens of shops and eateries. It’s calm, it’s unassuming, it’s graceful.īigger picture: The commercial area is known as Claremont Village. Now this community’s core is a gathering of five colleges (and two graduate schools) neighbored by a small business district and quiet streets of Craftsman-style homes. What makes it special: Once this territory was mostly citrus and oak groves. City Hall, neighbored by La Verne, Montclair and Upland. Population 35,703, stands 32 miles east of L.A. (But I let Santa Barbara in anyway, because, for better or worse, the UC campus has Goleta and Isla Vista to keep it company.) (Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Diego, San Francisco, you may harbor great schools, but are they really central to your identities? Consider yourselves wait-listed.) I also favored universities with more than 5,000 undergrads, campuses at least 50 years old and schools that cozy up to their towns rather than standing aloof on the outskirts. Or one of this continent’s first geodesic domes.Īmong the scores of schools in California, how did I choose just nine? I decided to favor smaller cities, focusing on municipalities with fewer than 120,000 residents. But you might end up with the National Yo-Yo Museum. My daughter’s new campus, in Santa Cruz, has a library that houses the Grateful Dead archive. They’re all over the map in every sense, from Claremont to Chico, offering options from the obvious to the arcane.
Whether you’re getting ready to hug a young scholar goodbye this fall (while handing them a box of laundry detergent) or simply looking for a weekend road trip, these places are worthy of a visit. In fact, all of our trips and conversations have helped me come up with my own list of the state’s nine best college towns. But I’ve also been looking at these collegiate communities through a travel writer’s lens. What did we learn?Īs a dad, I’ve been paying attention to details like class size, graduation rates, meal plans and the bus service between campus and downtown. We covered 11 campuses and 1,100 miles, from Camarillo to Davis. Travel & Experiences If it’s Tuesday, this must be Berkeley: My family’s weird COVID-era college tour
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