Visiting our campus is the best way to get to know us.
Visiting our campus is the best way to get to know us.

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Take a Campus Tour

Visiting Lewis & Clark is the best way to get to know us. Our three campuses—undergraduate, graduate, and law—are nestled in a forest just six miles from downtown Portland, and we have a free shuttle that will take you there.

Our undergraduate campus spans a ravine and is surrounded by trees, giving you ample space to explore and connect with nature. Our law school is located next door to Tryon Creek State Park, which is where you’ll find members of our community hiking the 13 miles of stunning nature trails. And our graduate school has an expansive green lawn that serves as a backyard, commonly listed as our students’ favorite place on campus. It’s also where our bee garden is housed!

Visit the Undergraduate College

Any upcoming on-campus visits and virtual interviews with undergraduate admissions can be found on the calendar below.

Click the date that you would like to attend a campus visit or virtual interview, and then click the name of the event that appears for additional information and registration.

For assistance registering for visits or interviews, email visit@lclark.edu. Have any other questions? Your Lewis & Clark Admissions Counselor is happy to help!

Self-Guided Tour

Self-guided tours are available almost every day of the year, giving you added flexibility. Complete this brief form to receive a digital self-guided tour map. Plan to spend about an hour touring our beautiful campus. You’re welcome to go inside buildings that are open and to ask questions of the students, faculty, and staff you meet along the way. Please don’t disturb any classes that are in session, but otherwise make yourself at home.

Counselor Visits

College counselors and independent educational consultants can register for a campus visit. We request that you schedule your visit at least one week in advance.

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Visit the Graduate and Law Schools

Graduate School of Education and CounselingLaw School

Take a Virtual Tour

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I visited the campus my junior year of high school and immediately fell in love with the place—everything was so green, the students were shockingly friendly, and the emphasis on intellectual exploration made it seem like the perfect fit.

Smith “S.” Yarberry BA ’16

Cheer on Your Peers

Almost 20 percent of our undergraduates compete on our 21 varsity sports teams. Attending games to cheer on your peers is a great way to spend time with friends, build community, and show your school spirit. Full athletics schedule.

Explore Portland

Lewis & Clark is located in the lush hills of South Portland, the city’s “sixth quadrant.” But our beautiful campuses aren’t the entire story—our location offers something that most other schools do not: an ideal setting in a vibrant, progressive city with endless networking, entertainment, and cultural resources.

College Outdoors trip

Getting Outdoors

The benefits and beauty of the Pacific Northwest are right outside our door. This area contains some of the most spectacular and well-maintained scenic areas in the United States.

Outdoor Activities

Student getting food at a cart downtown.

Good Eats

Portland is nationally renowned for its food scene, which includes options for almost every food preference and dietary need. We were even given the title of best pizza in the country from Modernist Pizza!

Dining Around Portland

Portland has concerts, sporting events, and many other activities!

Things to Do

It’s impossible to provide an exhaustive list of things to do and see in a city as vibrant and diverse as Portland. We can promise you this, though: you won’t lack for great opportunities to have fun.

Top 10 Recommendations

Katrina, in a red top and white pants, standing between two potted plants on brick stairs, eyes closed and arms outstretched into a plie ...

I love Portland because of the cool bands that come to play here and how personal their concerts are!

Katrina Kuzmina BA ’23
Moscow, Russia
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Margaret Jordan BA '18

I fell in love with Portland and the L&C campus before pretty much anything else.

Margaret Jordan BA ’18
Placentia, California
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Cloe standing outside on the undergrad campus. She is wearing a blue striped top, red pants, and sandals with socks.

I love how close some nice hiking spots are in Portland. You can find some fun nature spots and then go get a great cup of coffee after.

Cloe Moreno BA ’24
San Diego, California
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Where in the World?

Latitude - N 45 degrees 27 minutes 01.5 seconds (45.4507982448745)

Longitude - W 122 degrees 40 minutes 07.9 seconds (-122.672105792312)

We’re just a bit north of the halfway point between the North Pole and the Equator, at roughly the same latitude as Lyon (France), Milan (Italy), and Sapporo (Japan).

We’re also at the same latitude as Burlington, Vermont, and Minneapolis, Minnesota (but without the subzero temperatures.)

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Upcoming Events

February 17: All Day

Call for Papers: 2025 Dorothy Berkson Writing Award in Gender Studies

Submission may be from any field of study so long as gender is central to the work.

Self-submissions and faculty recommendations due by 5pm, Friday, March 21, 2025

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February 17: All Day

Handshake Challenge

Chance to Win $$ and Get a Job or Internship!

until February 28
February 17: 2:00pm - 3:00pm

German Office Hours with Lali @ILC

Gastropod Derby
February 17: 3:00pm

Gastropod Derby

Our Gastropod Derby will kick off at 3 p.m. on the Olin Balcony and on Twitch! – tentatively rescheduled to Monday at 3pm

(we must check on the health of our gastropods following the storm)

February 17: 4:30pm - 6:00pm

61st Annual Arthur L. Throckmorton Lecture: Kate Brown

“Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Food Sovereignty for the 21st Century”

Five-thousand Parisian farmers grew vegetables for two million Parisians at the turn of the 19th century. German citizens won the right to garden in the midst of famines in 1919-1920. Black residents of Washington, DC paid down on their homes during the Great Depression by maintaining vegetable gardens on their urban lots. While Soviet collective farms failed, Soviets farmed urban peripheries to produce most of the food people ate. These stories have been missed in plain sight because they clash with ideas of urban development and imagined divisions between urban and rural, nature and culture. Yet these histories reveal how a vegetable-powered wealth not only underwrote urbanization and industrialization, but became the means by which working people created urban food systems that could be a solution today.

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