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Goodbye Blue Monday is a coffee shop on Division Street in downtown Northfield. It's a great place to study because there's free wireless and coffee close at hand. There's also funky art on the walls and hot cider served in the winter.

The Contented Cow is a Northfield pub in the British tradition. The Cow takes its name from the Northfield town motto: "Cows, Colleges, and Contentment."

“There are two comfortable chairs in the hall next to the Great Hall. They're backed up against large windows with great light, and I love to read there. It's nice because sometimes a friend will walk by and if they want they can plop onto the chair next to me and we can catch up for a little while and then they'll walk on again and I'll continue reading until some other friend walks by. It's one of my favorite spots: productive, social, beautiful. If you come to Carleton, you better not take my spot until I graduate.”

The Arboretum (known affectionately as "The Arb") consists of 880 acres of prairie and woodland purchased by Carleton president Donald J. Cowling back in the 1920s. Students enjoy its jogging, biking, and skiing trails and biology classes use it for field research.

Carleton's 1.65 megawatt wind turbine began operating in fall 2004, the first utility-grade wind turbine in the country to be owned by a college.

The Cannon River flows through historic downtown Northfield, past the Carleton campus, and through Carleton's 880-acre arboreteum.