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Given to Colgate's outdoor education program by by the Beattie family in 1970, the Beattie Reserve is one of our most treasured areas.
All Wilderness Adventure participants spend two nights here, at first getting to know one another and later reliving times had on recently completed trips.
Students also use the area throughout the school year for outdoor education courses, hiking, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, sleeping out in the lean-to or yurt, and experiencing the low ropes challenge course.
A nature trail winds for about one mile through the woods and around the challenge course, and the remoteness offers opportunities for solitude and relaxation not easily found on campus.
The yurt at the Beattie Reserve is perfect for a weekend get-away any time of the year and comes fully equipped with a two-burner propane stove, bunk beds a wood stove and many other creature comforts. Contact us to reserve the yurt for overnight use.
Friends of the Outdoor Education program can hike and camp on the land with permission from our office: Please call Roxanne Benson, the outdoor ed administrative assistant, at 315-228-7972, or e-mail her at rbenson@colgate.edu.
