Visitor information
Wellesley is easy to reach and (in case we haven’t mentioned it yet) easy to love.
Our 500-acre campus is famous for its natural and architectural beauty, and includes a lake with actual sailboats, narrow stone stairways, handsome playing fields, expansive lawns, and an observatory which, at Halloween, gets dressed up as a giant pumpkin. While buildings are closed to the general public, public-facing facilities like the Wellesley College Botanic Gardens and Davis Museum are open to the public admission-free at regular posted hours.
We’re 12 miles (about 40 minutes) from Boston and Cambridge, one of the world’s great concentrations of cultural, entrepreneurial, scientific, and technological capital; also one of the country’s historical treasures. Unlike New York City, Boston and Cambridge do sleep; but they are inexhaustible all the same.
Wellesley, the town, is home to 27,000 people, good sushi, organic produce, winding tree-lined residential streets, independent shops and cafés, and several stops on Boston’s commuter rail line, including one in “the Vil,” the part of Wellesley that is closest to Wellesley College, which is in fact very close.