The Center for Activities, Recreation and Leadership (CARL) at St. Bonaventure is your headquarters for fun, fitness, recreation, entertainment, leadership, and lots more.

The Campus Activities Board (CAB), part of CARL, is the driving force behind quality extracurricular programming on campus, and students are behind the wheel at CAB. You can be part of the team responsible for the planning, production, advertising and presentation of exciting, diverse and educational programming throughout the year.

CAB books award-winning artists, comedians and bands for campus appearances. It also organizes and hosts on- and off-campus events for students, such as open mic nights to showcase campus talent. Then there are the awesome road trips:

• bus excursions to Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres games
• trips to live stage performances at Buffalo theaters
• shopping and sightseeing trips to New York City.

If running, hiking, walking, biking or inline skating is your thing, or all of the above, the 6.2-mile Allegheny River Valley Trail (above) includes a St. Bonaventure loop, offering quick and easy access to the trail from just about anywhere on campus.

The asphalt pathway travels through woodlands along the north back of the Allegheny for more than two miles before bending to run through part of the city of Olean. It turns again to head back to campus, completing a closed circuit.

Other ways to enjoy our great outdoors

• GOLF: The St. Bonaventure Golf Course, located right across the street from campus, is a well-maintained, hilly and challenging 9-hole course that offers discounted greens fees for SBU students.


• SKIING & ADVENTURE: Holiday Valley, a four-season resort less than a half-hour's drive from campus, is consistently ranked as one of the best downhill skiing facilities in the East. The Valley also operates the Sky High Adventure Park, an outdoor aerial park with tree-top platforms, zip lines, rope bridges and a mountain coaster ride.


• STATE PARKS: Allegany State Park, the largest state park in the state of New York, is just 20 miles west of campus. Letchworth State Park, with its deep Genesee River Valley Gorge, is just an hour's drive north.