<p>for you runners…I’m sure there are many more…</p>
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<p>Madison? Hmmm.</p>
<p>I don’t get Madison or Minneapolis.</p>
<p>Running along Lake Mendota is great. Running up Bascom Hill, not so much. I don’t even like to walk up it.</p>
<p>Doesn’t the marathon go up Bascom Hill twice?</p>
<p>Not sure why people are surprised that Madison is on this list.</p>
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<p>The campus is in the middle of the city with very busy multi lane thoroughfares running through it. That’s not my idea of a good running experience.</p>
<p>I don’t find the campus very attractive either. Not sure how it makes it on most beautiful lists.</p>
<p>Picnic Point, Observatory Drive, Bascom Hill, the Union Terrace, the Arboretum along Lake Wingra…the parts of campus that are beautiful are hard to beat. Agree that there are some ugly Brutalist buildings and that University Avenue is unattractive and busy. All the places I mentioned above (except for the Arboretum) are north of University Avenue.</p>
<p>Living in the Lakeshore dorms and running the lovely lakeside wooded path to Picnic Point and back is one of my fondest memories of Madison. In winter whenever the lake would freeze smooth enough, I could cross country ski to class. Although the path along the lake is as good as it ever was, the campus as a whole has a more urban and densly-built feel these days. Back then (early 80s) it was the perfect combination of urban and outdoorsy.</p>
<p>That’s interesting. Thanks for posting. I’ve run at a number of those places. I’m wondering how long of a run the author contemplated? Some of those places are NOT easy to get a 10 mile or more run without running into major or narrow/dangerous roads. Bryn Mawr would fit that category, as would UVA. Runners in Charlottesville tend to leave campus for a few well-known running routes. Swarthmore would be tricky, too. Campuses are gorgeous, but you are looking at loops at some of these. I was hoping Sewanee made the list- and it did. Perfect running. I would say Rice is the easiest logistically- a 3 mile crushed gravel loop surrounds the whole campus.</p>
<p>The university is known for having the happiest students, and Madison the city is anything but impersonal. It routinely makes “best places to live/bike/raise a family/etc.” lists, and for good reason.</p>
<p>MOWC: I would love to run on a three-mile stretch of gravel, if the Houston heat and humidity didn’t kill me. :)</p>
<p>Getting back to running, even if UW-Madison a great place to run, and I have my reservations, unless you are a real diehard the running season is pretty limited.</p>
<p>Most UW students find UW breaks down quickly into a bunch of smaller schools centered around the major and everyone LOVES the Unions. You can run miles along the UW lakeshore path without cars.</p>
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Lots of places to run at Duke…not sure which the author had in mind. There’s the paved sidewalk between East and West campus (~2 miles), the gravel trail around East (1.5 miles), and my personal favorite, the nature trail near the WaDuke (3 miles). For people who want to run longer distances, there’s all the trails in the Duke Forest (over 30 miles worth near campus).</p>
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Agreed … it’s also not clear if the article was including both on-campus and off-campus locations.</p>
<p>For example, if all on-campus BC seems an odd choice to me (the main campus is very built up at this point) however there are very nice choices right off campus.</p>