mount holyoke college

Visited in late fall, some leaves of oak and beach trees, we visited the library and a couple of other buildings, fun just to walk around, almost all of the plantings and trees have been id, really helpful if your interested.

The campus is one of the most scenic in the country. Our daughter graduated from MHC, and we feel that she was more than adequately prepared for Graduate School and the business world.

wonderful and varied trees, great green-house with exotic plants, and a lake. walking around the campus and the old buildings is very peaceful.

My firm services college campuses all over NE and ive seen some nice ones including Stonehill and Wheaton in Ma/ URI and Brown in RI/Fairfield and Trinity in CT/ UNH and Rivier in NH...nice pond with flowing streams-plenty of shady trees and classic old architecture in a beautiful rural town of South hadley

Possibly the most beautiful of fine ivy-covered New England college campuses, the Mount Holyoke College campus has the brick-and-ivy but also has campus greens, two lakes, small waterfalls, an excellent art museum, an amazing horticultural building with a Victorian greenhouse, an outdoor ampitheatre where graduation (both for the College & the town High School) take place, and an impressive library with wonderful archives. The school is the first of the Seven Sisters (the female version of the Ivy League) and the grave of founder Mary Lyon is in the center of campus, honored at every Graduation Weekend by the graduating class who wreath it in ivy while singing "Bread and Roses" the old song of women's suffrage. The college is steeped in tradition and the campus reflects this. It has kept to the original design and new buildings exactly match the old for a sense of cohesion and symmetry that is truly artistic.It would be well worth a visit with a potential female college student or just to enjoy the well-executed design and the resources contained here. And remember the beauty of the autumn foliage! Mount Holyoke College is breathtaking in October!

We were doing research on a Mount Holyoke graduate (1888) Mary L. Matthews. She was a missionary. She was also my great aunt. The entire library archives were very well-run and staff couldn't have been more helpful.

Go in the late spring to the early fall, the campus is absolutely gorgeous. Neo-Gothic architecture and well-manicured greens abound, and the lakes are great to visit with kids.

Reviewing a college on Trip Advisor is a bit odd. (Just a bit? Ya think?) Still, if you're in the area with your high-school daughter and she's considering colleges, Mt. Holyoke is worth a trip. It's a lovely campus, tighter than Amherst (which will matter when she's walking to and from class all winter), good library and other facilities, a few cafes to grab a bite, etc. Yeah, none of this says anything about the college, but kids are often impressionable about the small stuff. (I also highly recommend it as a college.)

The lakes are exquisite with well-maintained trails for running or walking (bikes not allowed). The library has a recently donated Chihuly sculpture. People are friendly, and the grounds and buildings are beautiful.

If you're in the area, be sure to visit Mt. Holyoke, the world's first--and thereby oldest--college for women. In addition to its outstanding academic reputation, Holyoke can also boast that its campus grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, founder of American landscaping and creator of New York's Central Park. Buildings + lawn= a picture-perfect New England college campus!

walking around Mt. Holyoke College Campus is like walking around an ivy league school. The architecture of the old brick buildings, wrought iron fences, hundred year old trees, beautiful landscaping, ponds & bridges, is a great place to spend an afternoon. You can also walk across the street to the Village Commons and enjoy a bite to eat or coffee at some of the few shops they have.

I have a daughter who goes to Mount Holyoke College so I am bias – but it is an absolutely beautiful campus with many things to see.The grounds are lovely – they have a couple ponds that have walking trails around them, along with a waterfall or two.The College Art Museum is wonderful – well worth an hour or two visit. It is free to the public and open Tuesdays-Sundays.The Chapel is worth a look see, along with the Science building (Clapp) who’s halls are lined with fossils, minerals, stuffed creatures and, naturally, the requisite prehistoric giant sloth skeleton.The library has one room that is (almost) out of a Harry Potter novel – tall beamed ceilings with multiple flags and stained glass renditions of the other colleges of the Seven Sisters fame. Also worth a visit are the greenhouses – open to the public, very relaxing (my personal favorite is the cactus room).Now the top secret thing to see at MHC is the Skinner Museum – this is off campus a bit and has very odd opening hours, but very, very worth a visit. This is free to the public (but I always leave a donation – it is staffed with volunteers) and is a very eclectic assortment of Victorian era items. Check the web for hours but if you can make it – it is well worth it.Fall and spring are my favorite times to visit.Enjoy!

I loved my alma mater experience here, and its a gorgeous campus to just visit if you're in the area. It looks lovely with all the autumn hues, but also in the spring and summer time with all the flowers in bloom, and even in the winter time the gothic architecture stands out amongst the snow (go around December, and you can see the main entrance decked out in pretty Christmas lights)! There are also 2 lakes you can walk around, as well as a small art museum (I love the Hetchy Canyon painting), and an arboretum. The campus was designed by the same person that designed NYC's Central Park, and inside the library is reminiscent of old England.

Beautiful college campus - compete with lakes, small mill pond type water fall, historic buildings in a semi-rural little New England town. Attended convocation - faculty and seniors processed into the Amphitheater to the beat of African drumming - senior class color was green and the students were creative in their expression of this while garbed in caps and gowns. We saw "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" , Green Peas, Dragons, Gumby and many more fun and entertaining sights. Sophomore class color is yellow and there were visits from a variety of flowers, PikaChu, a banana and other yellow delights. Having attended another Seven Sister College with a much more conservative slant to convocation, it was fun to see how the Mout Holyoke women bring in the new academic year.

Brought back memories for the wife and enjoyed talking with her classmates and with the President. A very well planned event. The honors presentation was a little long