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Three of the 26 Things to Do at Dartmouth
Planning Your Hanover Visit
You've stocked up on sweatshirts at the Dartmouth Co-op and dined at the Hanover Inn with your Dartmouth student. Now what? As you'll soon discover, there's plenty to do in Hanover and the Upper Valley. We'll help get you started by exploring a few highlights from the Fall-Winter version of 26 Things for Parents and Grandparents to Do at Dartmouth.
Be awed by ancient Assyrian reliefs
Hood Museum of Art
Free admission
www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu
The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is one of the oldest and largest college museums in the country with a collection that numbers some 70,000 objects. One of the highlights of the collection is a magnificent set of Assyrian reliefs from the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud (883-859 BC) The museum's holdings include six ninth-century BCE stone reliefs from the ancient palace of Ashurnasirpal in present-day Iraq, as well as fifty cuneiform tablets and a small collection of bronze artifacts from the region.
Ogle the orchids
Murdough Greenhouse
Free admission
www.dartmouth.edu/~grnhouse/visitor.shtml
The Brout Orchid Collection is the gift of Alan P. Brout, Dartmouth class of 1951. Collected over thirty years, Brout's gift included nearly 1,000 individual plants from the family Orchidaceae, ranging from Ada and Aerangis to Zygatorea and Zygopetalum. The Brout Collection has continued to grow, and now includes such species as the huge hybrid Cattleyas, typically used for prom corsages, and the delicate Trichosalpinix blaisdelii, which require a magnifying glass to more fully enjoy the tiny blooms.
Run, snowshoe, or cross-country ski
Pine Park near the Hanover Country Club golf course
Nominal fee if renting equipment
www.dartmouth.edu/~doc/naturalareas/pinepark
For a breathtaking run through the woods along the Connecticut River, hit Pine Park. And when the weather turns cold, head across the street to the Dartmouth Outing Club (DOC) House on Occom Pond and visit the Dartmouth Cross Country Ski Center, where you can rent cross-country skis and ice skates or just sip hot cocoa by the fire. There are over twenty-five kilometers of groomed cross-country ski trails on the golf course, Oak Hill, and Garipay Field in Hanover, New Hampshire. And for downhill/alpine skiing and snowboarding, visit the Dartmouth Skiway