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General information about visiting Bowdoin College.
Directions to Bowdoin College. Please note: it is expected that AMTRAK will offer regular service from Boston to Brunswick starting in 2012. The station in Brunswick is about 150 meters from the campus and it is about another 300 meters to the course accommodation registration desk in Coles Tower.
For air travel to the area, Portland International Airport (PWM) is the closest, which is about 25 miles from campus. Direct flights are available from Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, New York (LaGuardia and JFK), Newark, Orlando, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. (Ronald Reagan and Dulles). Limo service ranges from $30 to $60 depending upon the number of passengers going to the college. Some participants prefer to fly to Boston Logan International Airport. It is about a two-hour drive from Logan to the College, or there is expected to be AMTRAK rail service between Boston's South Station and Brunswick as noted above.
Some participants rent cars for convenient transportation to and from the airport as well around the area. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, there are lecture in the mornings and workshops in the evenings. The afternoons on these days are free and many of the participants spend their time either at local state parks. in Freeport for L.L. Bean and outlet shopping, or on whale-watching trips. Often the participants get together to organize a whale-watching trip and coordinate travel for those who do not have a car.
Parking on the Bowdoin College campus has not been a serious issue in past summers. There is generally parking available near the on-campus lodgings and dining hall, and there is some parking near Druckenmiller Hall where the lectures take place. It is about a five minute walk from the dormitories to Druckenmiller Hall so there is little reason for on-campus participants to drive to the lectures.
Things-to-do in the surrounding area, as supplied by the Chambers of Commerce surrounding Brunswick, ME.
Last Updated: September 05, 2011