[2] The campus is home to WNMC, which began as a student organization in 1967, and is now a community radio station broadcasting at 90.7 FM.

The campus is largely surrounded by the residential Base of Old Mission and Indian Woods neighborhoods of Traverse City.

Front Street Campus is home to the majority of the college's academic buildings, as well as residence halls and apartments.

It consists of an outdoor sculpture garden, several galleries for temporary exhibits, and the museum's signature collection of Inuit art of the Canadian Arctic, one of the largest and most historically complete collections of these distinctive sculptures and prints in the United States.

The campus is located adjacent to Cherry Capital Airport, and also includes hangars and an automotive service technology building.

[14] NMC operates the Joseph H. Rogers Observatory, which is situated atop a hill south of Traverse City in Garfield Township.