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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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.

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Take a Campus Tour

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

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Take a Virtual Tour

When I visited campus, it was clear that I would be surrounded by intellectually curious people who are motivated to better the world, that I would be supported in my academic endeavors, and that the people seemed happy to be here—it made me want to be a part of it.

Jack Waite BA ’23
Bakersfield, California

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.

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

Uwella smiling at the camera, wearing a black jacket, posing in front of a body of water.

I loved that our campus was far away from downtown Portland, but also accessible by bus or car in 30 minutes or less. We could also bike too, which was awesome with all the serene amazing views! 

Uwella Rubuga BA ’19
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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Katie posing outside with her softball mitt, wearing a white top and blue jeans.

Campus feels secluded and hidden, but Portland is so accessible and I never feel limited by the small campus.

Katie Ingersoll BA ’25
Bothell, Washington
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Molly posing outside. She is wearing a long-sleeve green shirt.

Although building community on campus is a beautiful and wonderful thing, don’t forget to engage with the greater Portland community!

Molly Gibbons BA ’24
Missoula, Montana
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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

March 15: All Day

2025 Gender Studies Symposium Art Show

One important part of the symposium is an art exhibit of work from community members from Lewis & Clark and beyond. The 44th Annual Gender Studies Symposium, “[No] Hard Feelings,” investigates how we are moved by emotions in relation to gender and sexuality, and the art exhibit explores similar themes.

This year’s exhibit includes a physical gallery in the Watzek Library atrium and an online gallery.

Curated by L&C students Mayah Brasse ’26, Ren Crenshaw ’28, and Rebeka Kerek ’27.

until March 21
March 15: 9:00am

Compassion for your Inner Critic: Applying IFS and Art Therapy (In-Person)

Saturday, March 15, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.  |  6 CEUs

Macbeth by William Shakespeare will be coming to Lewis & Clark's Fir Acres theatre on March 7- 15, 2024
March 15: 7:30pm

Macbeth

Lewis & Clark College Theatre Department Presents:
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Friday, March 7th, 7:30pm
Saturday, March 8th, 7:30pm
Sunday, March 9th, 2:00pm
Thursday, March 13th, 7:30pm
Friday, March 14th, 7:30pm

It's The End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel FIRE)
March 15: 8:00pm

It’s The End Of the World As We Know It (And I Feel FIRE)

Come one, come all. Crawl out of your bunkers, hop off that escape pod, and traverse the wasteland to witness a devastating display of fiery prowess.

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