If you hitch up with somebody from the DC area for a ride (about 4 hours plus from DC), Southwest (your airline of choice) has lots of flights serving Baltimore-Washington (BWI).

Let me second what everyone else has said about the Davis and Elkins campus--as you go from place to place, you will always need to choose between the flatest route, the shortest route, the easiest route, and the fastest route, and they will almost always be several different paths.

--Charlie Baum