About Our Area

Mountains. Valleys. Rivers, trails, and forests. These are the things that will surround you every day as a student at Flathead Valley Community College. Nestled between the Rocky Mountains and Flathead Lake—America’s largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi—our setting provides a learning environment unlike any college in America.

At FVCC, our location is all about opportunities…

Opportunities to Explore
Just 30 minutes from Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and two of Montana’s finest ski and summer resorts, you will find more than 1,000 miles of trails and endless outlets for:

  • Camping
  • Biking
  • Hiking
  • Boating
  • Water and downhill skiing
  • Snowboarding
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Fishing
  • Canoeing & kayaking
  • Rafting
  • Horseback riding
  • Golfing
  • Snowmobiling
  • Hunting
  • Rock climbing

Opportunities to Learn
Our 209-acre campus in Kalispell, Montana, is constantly evolving. You will find modern facilities, buildings and learning resources. You will have wireless Internet access in our 36,400-volume library. And you will enjoy the following recent additions to our campus:

  • Occupational Trades Building—a new 25,190-square-foot facility which is home to our building construction trades programs.
  • Arts and Technology Building—a new 61,500-square-foot facility featuring the most modern technology, an instructional kitchen, a black-box theatre, a student resource lab and an arts courtyard.
  • Early Childhood Education and Care Center—a new 7,140-square-foot-facility for students pursuing careers as early childhood educators, which also provides affordable, quality daycare services to FVCC students, employees and the local community.

Opportunities to Grow
Our relationship with the local community is extremely close and, as a result, you will find countless opportunities for personal and professional growth through service learning programs. In fact, in one year alone more than 290 FVCC students volunteered more than 5,600 hours to improving the community and enhancing the lives of local citizens. A few examples of recent service learning initiatives include:

  • Habitat University—a day-long event providing awareness about Habitat for Humanity.
  • Suessville University—a day-long celebration of Dr. Suess for more than 265 local third-grade students.
  • FVCC AmeriCorps Team—which raised more than $21,000 for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
  • FVCC Service Learning Office—which received and presented more than 200 toys to local children in need.
  • FVCC AmeriCorps Team—which received and presented more than 125 food, hygiene and clothing items to a local battered women’s shelter.