Editing Fort Lewis College (section)

==Campus==
The 247-acre Fort Lewis College campus is in southwestern Colorado, 6,872 feet atop a mesa overlooking the [[Animas River|Animas River Valley]] and downtown [[Durango, Colorado]]. A network of trails as well as city bus service (free to students with FLC IDs) connects the campus and town.

The campus's distinctive architectural theme utilizes locally quarried sandstone to acknowledge the region's Native pueblo building style and evoke the Four Corners landscape and colors. The style was crafted by [[Boulder, Colorado|Boulder]] architect James M. Hunter, whom the college contracted to establish a campus building plan in the late 1950s, after its move from Hesperus to Durango.

Today, on-campus housing is in six residence halls and two apartment buildings, with singles, doubles, and suites. Also on campus are 14 academic buildings, as well as a Student Life Center, Aquatic Center, and Student Union. On-campus athletic facilities include Ray Dennison Memorial Field, Dirks Field, the Softball Complex, Whalen Gymnasium, and the Factory Trails, an off-road bicycling race course.

[[File:Fort Lewis College in Durango Colorado.jpeg|thumb|The La Plata Mountains rise behind the Fort Lewis College campus.]]

The new Student Union opened in 2011, and hosts the college's cultural centers, the Native American Center and El Centro de Muchos Colores, student government, the Environmental Center, the post office, and the bookstore. The Student Union also offers several dining options, and houses both a Leadership Center and a Media Center that includes the college's news magazine, literary journal, and [[KDUR]] radio station.

The [[U.S. Green Building Council]] awarded the Student Union LEED Gold status for its sustainability features. It is the third LEED Gold building on campus, along with the Berndt Hall Biology Wing and Animas Hall. Those environmental awards helped FLC be named one of "America's Coolest Schools" by ''Sierra'' magazine, the official publication of the [[Sierra Club]], in 2011.<ref>[http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201109/coolschools/ ''Sierra'' "Cool Schools 2011"]</ref>