Colorado Mountain College in Leadville
Scenes from life in Leadville, Colorado.
Leadville, Colorado is the place if you love the outdoors and want a career that will keep you there. Timberline Campus specializes in outdoor recreation and environmental programs, in a spectacular mountain setting. As you walk across Timberline Campus above Leadville you can look over the valley to Colorado's highest peaks looming out of the Continental Divide. Several national forests and wilderness areas provide plenty of adventure nearby. In the evening deer often feed at the edge of the thick pine forest bordering campus. Look around! (Requires Quicktime)
The new Academic Center at the Timberline Campus provides classrooms, greenhouse, science, natural resource and computer labs, faculty offices and a bookstore. Smart classrooms are wired to feed the latest online information into class. The Natural Resource
Management program runs internship projects from its office here.(See the slideshow.) Also on campus is a library and learning center, student center, cafeteria and residence halls. The Ski Area Operations program has classrooms, a snowcat maintenance garage and several outdoor practice locations, including nearby Ski Cooper. The campus is also a spectacular location for summer conferences and institutes which brings participants from throughout Colorado and other states.