I’m tired of BYU advertising Wyview Park as on-campus housing. Just because it is owned and operated by BYU doesn’t mean that it is on-campus. I used Google Earth to find some distances from Wyview and a few off-campus housing complexes to various campus locations. All distances are linear, and not the actual distance a student may travel while walking to the location.

To the library entrance:

• Wyview: 0.88 miles
• Glenwood: 0.62 miles
• University Villa: 0.67 miles
• Centennial: 0.89 miles

To the Marriott Center:

• Wyview: 0.65 miles
• Glenwood: 0.52 miles
• University Villa: 0.87 miles
• Centennial: 1.19 miles

To the Joseph Smith Building:

• Wyview: 1.02 miles
• Glenwood: 0.69 miles
• University Villa: 0.49 miles
• Centennial: 0.78 miles

When looking at these number, it is hard to imagine that Wyview is considered “on-campus” while the other complexes are considered “off-campus.”

These numbers were easy to find with Google Earth’s distance measuring tool. Google Earth is part of Google Pack, a free collection of essential software. You can download Google Pack by clicking here.

Update March 1, 2008: For those who are not familiar with BYU campus, you can take a look at the campus map to see where some of the buildings are. Wyview is northwest of campus, on the far side of the stadium. Glenwood is west of the northern part campus, about 3/10th of a mile northwest of Heleman halls, a housing complex that more properly can call itself, “On-campus.” University Villa just a few blocks west from the tennis courts on the southwest side of campus. Centennial is located near a few other large complexes southeast of campus.

Update January 23, 2009: I’ve also added this map to help show where a few major on-campus and off-campus complexes are located with respect to the main part of campus where students take classes (the blue shaded region). Wyview is the brown shaded region along the top of the map.

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