{"id":217255,"date":"2025-08-18T17:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/?p=217255"},"modified":"2025-08-20T13:26:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T17:26:57","slug":"sewanee-the-beautiful-an-ode-to-the-prettiest-campus-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/sewanee-the-beautiful-an-ode-to-the-prettiest-campus-in-the-country","title":{"rendered":"Sewanee the Beautiful: An Ode to the Prettiest Campus in the Country\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first time I drove up the mountain to Sewanee: The University of the South, all I saw was a shadowy landscape so drenched in mist the car headlights could barely illuminate the road. By the next morning, though, the famous blanket of Sewanee fog had lifted, and I knew almost immediately that I had never been to a more stunning place. I\u2019m not alone in that opinion: Last week, the Princeton Review, pulling from surveys of some 170,000 students at 391 schools, ranked what Sewanee folk call \u201cthe Domain\u201d as the prettiest campus in the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<!-- Promo shortcode start --><div id=\"nlf-1c\" class=\"gg-promo topic-weddings weddings-nov25\"><div class=\"weddings-grid\"><div class=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/order.emags.com\/gg_weddings?source=inline\" aria-label=\"Click to get your copy.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/promos\/weddings-snowy-cover-nov25.gif\" width=\"648\" height=\"782\" alt=\"G&amp;G Weddings digital edition cover\"><\/a><\/div><div class=\"right\"><div class=\"flex\"><div class=\"inner\"><div class=\"big-title\"><span class=\"nowrap\">G&amp;G Weddings<\/span> <span class=\"nowrap\">Now Available!<\/span><\/div><div class=\"dek\">Get our special digital issue and celebrate the big day in Southern style<\/div><div><a href=\"https:\/\/order.emags.com\/gg_weddings?source=inline\" class=\"button button-primary\">Get Your Copy<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- Promo shortcode end -->\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be recognized as the most beautiful campus in the country,\u201d vice-chancellor Rob Pearigen told me. \u201cOur 13,000-acre Domain is at the heart of the Sewanee experience.\u201d The Sewanee Mining Company donated ten thousand of those acres back in 1857 and 1859 during the university\u2019s inception, and while the snippet of campus where the cluster of academic buildings sit is just a tiny patch, relatively speaking, it\u2019s a captivating one. These buildings\u2014down to the cafeteria and including the crown jewel, All Saints\u2019 Chapel\u2014are Gothic Revival\u2013style visual delights featuring locally quarried sandstone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF5011-2-1100x733.jpg\" alt=\"A Gothic Revival\u2013style building on a campus\" class=\"wp-image-217258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF5011-2-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF5011-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF5011-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF5011-2-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Courtesy of the University of the South<\/div><div class=\"caption\">The Quad from above.<\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But during the four years I spent studying literature and biology there, it was always the rest of the campus that called. From two lookout points, the Cross and Green\u2019s View, the Tennessee landscape spills out below in a patchwork of green, zoomed-out vistas that remind you you\u2019re floating up on the Cumberland Plateau\u2014a thousand-foot-high tabletop in the Southern Appalachian mountains\u2014and that the bluffs, streams, caves, and forests are yours to explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MG_8541-1100x733.jpg\" alt=\"A campus surrounded by forest\" class=\"wp-image-217267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MG_8541-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MG_8541-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MG_8541-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MG_8541-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Courtesy of the University of the South<\/div><div class=\"caption\">Sixty-five miles of hiking trails weave through the Domain.<\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once, while hiking to Bridal Veil Falls, I watched a bright orange salamander, <em>Eurycea lucifuga<\/em>, creeping across a mossy rock face. Another time, on a caving excursion, I admired a furry gray bat clinging to the cool wall, asleep. In Abbo\u2019s Alley, a lush path that winds near the heart of campus, I learned to identify birds by their songs. I spent a summer raising newts in a pond on the golf course. Three times, I hiked the Perimeter Trail, a twenty-mile loop of the entire campus that reveals so many pockets of wild beauty that you end the day with aching legs but saturated in appreciation for the natural world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF4527-1100x733.jpg\" alt=\"A mountain sunset\" class=\"wp-image-217260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF4527-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF4527-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF4527-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/DSCF4527-1600x1067.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><div class=\"wp-caption\"><div class=\"image-credit\">Photo: Courtesy of the University of the South<\/div><div class=\"caption\">The sun sets over the Cumberland Plateau.<\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth is, anyone who has spent time at Sewanee has a favorite corner of the Domain. For director of athletics (and my old tennis coach) John Shackelford, it\u2019s a little courtyard in the middle of campus where a lone ginkgo tree stands and spectacularly sheds its leaves all at once every October. For Pearigen, it\u2019s the soaring grandeur of All Saints\u2019 Chapel, host to graduation and other landmark moments along the way in a student\u2019s journey. For herpetology professor Kristen Cecala, it\u2019s tranquil Lake Dimmick or an ephemeral wetland at the end of bumpy, unpaved Breakfield Road, where she studies spotted salamanders and all other manner of amphibians. For my sister and fellow alum, it\u2019s the staircase of the Cross memorial, where her husband proposed.&nbsp;<\/p><div id=\"div-gpt-ad-2110355\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad mobile inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-8318375\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad tablet inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1140366\" class=\"ad-container in-line-ad desktop inContent\" data-ad-size-mapping=\"inContent\" data-ad-path=\"\/68000349\/in-between-modules\" data-ad-sizes=\"[ [336, 280], [300, 250], [300, 50] ]\" data-ad-channel=\"\" data-ad-type=\"In-between Modules\" data-page-terms=\"flagged\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>For me, it\u2019s a certain bluff in Shakerag Hollow, where I like to sit and dangle my legs off the edge and look over the familiar old-growth forest, full of towering oaks and hickories framed by feathery ferns and studded with boulders and the logs of fallen giants, which give nutrients and shelter to an assortment of tiny lives. There are fresh secrets to uncover, too\u2014earlier this year, professor Jon Evans discovered a new species of flower in Shakerag and named it <em>Phacelia sewaneesis<\/em>. This fall, I\u2019m heading back to the mountain for a visit, and I can\u2019t wait to get lost in the Domain\u2014and all the details of its beauty\u2014again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Princeton Review made it official, but staff, students, and alumni already knew that the 13,000-acre Domain is a treasure trove of natural and architectural beauty <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":217256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-08-18T21:04:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"c44cb57f-78e5-442d-a11f-de904c98989b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-08-19T13:35:15Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AxEy1f3jlRC2hH96QTJiYmw","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784,1785],"tags":[29991,367,619,30280],"authors":[29332],"issue":[],"recipe-type":[],"class_list":["post-217255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-and-culture","category-travel","tag-culture","tag-tennessee","tag-travel","tag-whats-new","authors-lindsey-liles"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.3 (Yoast SEO v26.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sewanee the Beautiful: An Ode to the Prettiest Campus in the Country\u00a0 &#8211; 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