Best College Towns You've Visited

The Best Cities thread got me thinking about cpllege towns. The places that if not for the school would probably be just a little more than a wide place in the road.

Here are mine in no particular order:

Athens -- okay, it's at the top for a reason
Charlottesville
Tuscaloosa
Gainesville
Boone
State College
Chapel Hill
Blacksburg

 

Charlottesville.

Blacksburg.

College Avenue in State College is a pretty cool Saturday night.

 

Athens, Ohio
Madison
Missoula, Mont.
Bloomington, Ind.

 

What, no Bozeman or Terre Haute?

 

Fuck Bozeman . . . damned bunch of murdering freaks!

And the Haute isn't really a college town. There's a college there, but it doesn't dominate the town like the colleges in the towns I listed do.

 

1. Athens.










2. Austin.
3. Tempe.
4. Everything else.

 

Madison
Greeley
much to my chagrin, South Bend
West Lafayette is dominated by Purdue, but it's not great

I'm sure I'll think of some more

 

Wow.

I liked Athens, Ohio, Morgantown and (hate to admit it) Ann Arbor.

 

Yeah, add Ann Arbor on my list, too. Pretty nice.

 

Gainesville, Florida.

The Swamp, The O-Dome, The Purple Porpoise, Lake Alice...

 

1. Madison (by far)
2. Tempe
3. Austin

 

Yup, I remembered some:

Fort Collins
Lubbock
Champaign
Tucson, even though the city doesn't revolve around the school