Campus & Location
A campus built for community, located for opportunity
Calvin’s beautiful 400-acre campus in West Michigan is ideally located to create a small, close-knit community feel while providing access to everything the city of Grand Rapids has to offer. Enjoy a sprawling, tree-covered campus with buildings designed to promote intentional learning and meaningful interaction. Bike, run, or walk on miles of paved paths or enjoy God’s creation in Calvin’s 100-acre Ecosystem Preserve & Native Gardens.
We invite you to visit to get a feel for what the campus is really like!
Virtual tour
Quick Facts
- 6 places to eat on campus
- 5 miles to downtown Grand Rapids
- 40 miles to the sandy beaches of Lake Michigan
- 400 acres of campus
- Design by William Fyfe, student of prairie-style architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright
- 100 acres within Calvin’s Ecosystem Preserve & Native Gardens
Things to do on campus
Check out this sample of things you can do on Calvin’s campus.
- Athletic events
- Cheer on the Knights in the 362,000-square-foot Spoelhof Fieldhouse Complex, or at one of the many campus athletic fields.
- Calvin Ecosystem Preserve & Native Gardens
- Enjoy a stroll through the 100-acre preserve, or attend events held at the LEED-certified Bunker Interpretive Center.
- Center Art Gallery
- Dice Mineralogical Museum
- Peet’s Coffee
- Campus Store
- Musical performances
- Calvin Observatory (telescope)