The earlier the better. Try to book your flight at least a month in advance. This will ensure you pay a fair price and have more flight options. Ideally, you’ll want to travel to Moscow on a Saturday, worship with us on Sunday, and be rested and ready to attend classes on Monday morning. The extra day will also serve as an important buffer for unexpected delays, particularly when traveling during the winter months. Arriving early will also give you a chance to attend the kick-off dinner on Sunday night, which is always a great way to begin the week and offers a chance to rub shoulders with current students and faculty.

Depending on where you are traveling from you may find it less expensive to book a direct flight into Spokane instead of Moscow/Pullman. Just bear in mind you will have to either arrange a pickup, rent a car, or catch a bus the last eighty miles to Moscow (Approximately an hour and a half drive.) From Lewiston, the drive time is about forty minutes.

Taxi services are typically available outside the terminal to transport you from the Moscow/Pullman airport (which is actually in Pullman) into Moscow, about twenty minutes away. Currently, you can expect this to cost about $20. Returning students may make spontaneous arrangements with other students, share rides, or arrange for local friends to pick them up, but the college does not have any official arrangements. You are on your own. Believe me, by the time you graduate, you will be a seasoned traveler!

You may decide to rent an Air BnB within walking distance of campus or stay at a hotel, although most hotels are located further away from the NSA campus, closer to the University of Idaho. The one exception is the Monarch Motel, which is only a few steps from the college.

Visitors will find that Moscow’s historic downtown district, where the NSA campus is located, is delightfully situated among a growing number of restaurants, bars, and coffee shops. Bucers and Tapped are popular among NSA students and serve as our de facto cafeteria. There is also a small whole foods co-op less than a block from campus and conventional grocery stores at either end of town, approximately a four-minute drive if you have access to a car. (It is a joke among locals, due to the town’s small size, that any destination is only a four-minute drive.) The only college-sponsored events are the kick- off dinner on Sunday night and a dessert/drinks end-of-week celebration on Friday night. For the rest of the meals, you’re on your own, although many students enjoy meeting up for lunches and dinners.