The main UM campus is a city within a city, with its own eateries, stores, medical facilities, banking and postal services, as well as zip code. It boasts some one-of-a-kind features that you’ll only find in Missoula:
- 60-plus buildings spread across 156 tree-lined acres at the base of Mount Sentinel
- The historic Main Hall and the Oval, “a vast lawn that serves as a Frisbee field, podium, tanning salon, study hall, even a classroom building in nice weather,” as described by author Martin Nemko
- The 25,200-seat Washington-Grizzly Football Stadium seated at the mouth of Hellgate Canyon
- The M Trail on Mount Sentinel – a steep, switch-backed path that’s the most-used hiking trail in the state – is fondly known as “the original Stairmaster”
- Campus is bordered on the north by the Clark Fork River and the adjacent Kim Williams Trail, which is popular with walkers, joggers, and bicyclists
- Large rocks scattered across campus and the University neighborhood are remnants of Glacial Lake Missoula, a massive body of water that formed 12,000 years ago when ice blocked the Clark Fork of the Columbia River
