Living on the COA campus isn't quite like living on a normal college campus. First of all, you can't get lost, and it only takes about five minutes to get from one end to the other. The COA campus is also located in a great spot, right on Frenchman Bay, with a pier to swim off, and plenty of quiet spots to get away from it all. Acadia National Park is also within walking distance, with many miles of hikes, carriage trails, mountains, forest, and rocky shoreline to explore and enjoy. The park is also home to many different kinds of wildlife, including eagles, fox, osprey, mink, otters, deer, moose, and more.

On campus you will find student residences, Take-a-break (the college dining room), and a large front lawn with plenty of room for ultimate frisbee, soccer and lacrosse. In the winter it sometimes sports a make-shift ice skating rink. There's even a rope swing hanging from a large old pine tree on the north lawn.

You can kick back and relax oceanside in the Davis Center lounge, or, if that doesn't interest you, take to the computer lab to e-mail or surf the net (or back to your room - the dorms are all connected by fiberoptics to the net with jacks in every room).