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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.
Visit FAQ
- For undergraduate student visits, navigate to the calendar section above on this page. Click on “on-campus visits” above the calendar. Select a date on the calendar, click the blue “campus visit” link on the right, and then complete the form.
- For graduate and law student visits, click the buttons below for more information.
- For undergraduate student visits, navigate to the calendar section above on this page. Click on “virtual interviews” above the calendar. Select a date on the calendar, click the blue “virtual interview” link on the right, and then complete the form.
- Interviews for first-year and transfer fall 2025 students begin June 10, 2024, and are not required for admission. If you choose to interview, you must do so by:
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- November 1 for Early Action and Early Decision applicants
- January 15 for Regular Decision applicants
- Prior to the completion of an application for Transfer students
- For graduate and law student visits, click the buttons below for more information.
- Undergraduate admissions visitor parking is in Lot H on the campus map. After you register to visit, you will receive a parking permit to print, or you can pick one up at the Frank Manor House.
- All visitor and student spaces are available for use on the graduate and law campuses. Note that staff parking spaces are reserved until 5 p.m.
- Regular undergraduate campus visits start at the Frank Manor House, which is where the college admissions office is located.
- For graduate and law student visits, click the buttons below for more information.
- Regular undergraduate campus visits include a one-hour tour of campus and a 30-minute Q&A style information session. If you’d like more from your visits and are applying for fall 2025 admission, select “Yes” when asked about additional activities during your visit.
- We also offer special programming and visit options, just for admitted students and their families. For more information, visit your L&C Portal!
- For graduate and law student visits, click the buttons below for more information.
- When registering for an undergraduate campus visit, select “Yes” when asked if anyone in your group needs an accommodation and share a bit of information with us so we can make your visit successful.
- For graduate and law student visits, click the buttons below for more information.
Visit the Graduate and Law Schools
Graduate School of Education and CounselingLaw School
Take a Virtual Tour
Campus Map (PDF) Interactive Campus Map Accessibility Information
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.
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.
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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.
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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!
I love Portland because of the cool bands that come to play here and how personal their concerts are!
I fell in love with Portland and the L&C campus before pretty much anything else.
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.
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.)
Upcoming Events
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
Handshake Challenge
Chance to Win $$ and Get a Job or Internship!
German Office Hours with Lali @ILC
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)
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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