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Chico
& the Northern California Region
You Will Enjoy Living in Chico
Chico is located in the Sacramento Valley, a northern
California agricultural region, and is surrounded by coastal mountains
to the west and the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges to
the north and east.
Living in Chico
is one of the best things about studying at ALCI.
Chico is a
beautiful, friendly, affordable, and safe university town. With
a population of 100,000, Chico combines the charm and comfort of
a small college town with the cultural and recreational offerings
of a larger city.
The Chico campus and university housing is located within walking
distance to downtown allowing for close access to shopping, dining,
and night time entertainment.
Many students
choose bicycles as a main mode of transportation around town.
Bidwell Park,
one of the nation's largest municipal parks is located in downtown
Chico and stretches several kilometers to the mountains east of
the city. It's a great place to study, relax, and have some fun
outdoors.
Discover California!
Chico is centrally located with hundreds of exciting destinations
just a day trip away.
Maps
Chico
Downtown
Chico
Campus
Map
News
in Chico
Chico Enterprise-Record - Daily
newspaper
Chico News & Review
- Free weekly newspaper
The Orion - CSU, Chico
student newspaper
Synthesis - Free weekly newspaper
catering to students
KHSL TV - Local TV news station
Climate and Weather
The climate is generally mild, except in the hot,
dry months of July and August.
Annual rains start in late fall and continue through mid-spring.
Winters are mild, with occasional snow falling in the local foothills
(rarely on the valley floor).
Click
to view the ALCI photo tour!
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Thursday
night
Farmer's Market
is a fun shopping experience.
Downtown
Chico is within walking distance from the campus.
Discover
Bidwell Park
- the third
largest municipal park in the country.
Click
to view (pdf)
a map of the park.
Lake Tahoe
is 150 miles
from Chico and offers winter as well as summer recreation.
San Francisco
(170 miles) is a
great city for sightseeing
and shopping.
Mount Shasta (north of Chico) offers beautiful vistas, mountain
climbing, snow skiing, fishing and hiking to its visitors.
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