Bates College
Lewiston, ME · Liberal arts college
6 mindrive to the closest stay
6stays inside a 10-min drive
Campus visits, state by state
Hotels near colleges in Maine
8 campuses159 places to stay measured
8campusesin ME
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By the numbers
8 schools in Maine are on this site, with 159 places to stay measured around them. At 4 of them a place to stay is no more than about a 10-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge, and at 5 one is within about 20 minutes. The shortest walk we measured here is about 3 minutes, at College of the Atlantic. For 1 of them the tour meeting place comes straight from the school's own visit page.
How to read these counts
A "10-minute walk" is our estimate from map distance to where the visit starts, or to the campus edge when we have not pinned that down; each school's page says which. Map dated November 2026. The full method
Every school we cover in Maine
8 schools in Maine, in A to Z order
Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME · Liberal arts college
8 minwalk to the closest stay2stays inside a 20-min walk8stays inside a 10-min driveColby College
Waterville, ME · Liberal arts college
4 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk9stays inside a 10-min driveCollege of the Atlantic
Bar Harbor, ME · Liberal arts college
3 minwalk to the closest stay30stays inside a 20-min walk36stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of Maine
Orono, ME · Public university
16 minwalk to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min walk2stays inside a 10-min driveUniversity of New England
Biddeford, ME · Private university
14 mindrive to the closest stay17stays inside a 20-min driveUniversity of Southern Maine
Portland, ME · Public university
9 minwalk to the closest stay8stays inside a 20-min walk25stays inside a 10-min driveUnity Environmental University
New Gloucester, ME · Private university
20 mindrive to the closest stay1stay inside a 20-min drive
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About these lists
Which colleges in Maine do you cover?
8 four-year schools in Maine: the larger public and private universities plus the liberal arts colleges families tour most. For-profit and online-only schools are left out.
Can you walk from a hotel to campus at schools in Maine?
At 5 of the 8, the map shows a place to stay no more than about a 20-minute walk from the tour start or the campus edge. Each school's page lists them closest first.
Do the pages cover graduation as well as tours?
For 1 of these schools we've read the commencement venue on the school's own page and show it. Every page explains what its minutes run to, and the graduation guide covers when rooms sell out.
Where do the walking minutes come from?
From OpenStreetMap distances, turned into minutes by a fixed rule. Breakfast is listed for 7 schools' nearby hotels by brand standard. How the minutes are measured.