A green five-thousand-acre campus in East Lansing built around the Red Cedar River. The historic core, between the river and Grand River Avenue, is a National Register district with brick Gothic Revival buildings, sycamore-shaded walks, and the chiming Beaumont Tower at its centre.
Wander through Beal Botanical Garden (the oldest continuously operating botanical garden in the United States), past the chapels and the Sparty statue. The campus is open and walkable; pick up a map at the visitor centre. On a football Saturday in autumn, all of green-and-white Michigan converges on Spartan Stadium and you should be somewhere else.