The college occupies a 110-acre campus at Maine, Bath and College Streets. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne are just two of the college's famous alumni. President Franklin Pierce and arctic explorers Robert Peary and Donald MacMillan also graduated from Bowdoin College.
The college is open to tours Monday through Friday at 9, 11, 2, and 4 and Saturday at 11.