Take a walk around campus!

You'll be hard-pressed to find a lovelier college campus to walk around. On a pretty night or after a big meal, walking around campus is one of our absolute favorite things to do--and we encourage you to see for yourselves why we love it so much. You'll need no help finding lovely things to see, but we wanted to give you a brief map of things to look for--including both historic places in Auburn and a very special place for the two of us.

Below is a key for the map above:

Auburn University Hotel

We wanted to give you a great starting point for your walk, and the AU Hotel (or Toomer's corner, just north at the intersection of College and Magnolia) seemed as good a place as any.

Samford Hall

If Auburn has a singular icon, its the exquisitely beautiful red brick, red mortar clocktower known as Samford Hall. This is Auburn's main administrative building, erected after Old Main, the original school building, burned to the ground. There is a beautiful lawn in front, a lathe with great Auburn tradition just underneath the clocktower, and legendary Toomer's corner on the Northeast part of the lawn where College and Magnolia meet.

1. The Koi Pond - Though no longer a pond, this garden just west of Samford Hall was the 50 yard line of Auburn's first-ever home football game (in which we absolutely trounced the Georgia Bulldogs). Historically, if any Auburn student stepped on the seal in front of Langdon Hall (just a few steps north of Samford Hall), they faced a two-fold curse: they'd never graduate from Auburn, and they'd never meet their Auburn true love. The only way to reverse that curse was to swim in the Koi Pond at midnight on Halloween (no doubt why it's no longer a pond).

2. Cater Hall and the Upper Quad

Named after Katherine Cooper Cater and home to Auburn's Honors College, Cater Hall sits atop the upper quad and looks over the four Honors Dorms. The porch area over the Upper Quad lawn is home to Auburn callouts. This is where every student organization, secret society, elected campus leadership position--everyone from SGA President to Friends of Aubie to Miss Auburn to Squires Honorary to Freshman Forum--everyone hears their name yelled out to listeners below. from right here at Cater Lawn.

3. Harper Hall - This is Rob's freshman year home (couldn't help myself).

4. Haley Concourse - Crossing right in front of the Haley Center (Lee County's tallest building and home to nearly every freshman-level class at Auburn), the Haley Concourse is the main artery of students' commutes through campus--it's what makes a campus of 25,000+ undergrad students feel so much smaller, because everyone can be found right here at one point or another.

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Parker Hall - WHERE SHE SAID YES!!!

Alumni know Parker as the place where they had calculus freshman year, the Garcias know Parker as home to their tailgate for Auburn home games, but we know Parker as the place we first met--at one of those tailgates (thanks to the help of Addy Steele). So in that very place where MK first entered Rob's life, he took a knee and asked her to change it forever. Pictures can be found below... but if you take a walk through campus, no reason for you not to go take a peek, right?

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5. The Greenspace - A core-of-campus greenspace right by the student center, the Auburn Greenspace is (now) the home base of the oldest (and Rob's favorite) Auburn tradition - Hey Day!

6. Jordan-Hare Stadium - This is where the magic happens... sometimes. If you find yourself walking around the stadium, Rob advises you do so on the stadium-side of Heisman Drive so you can see the statues erected to 4 Auburn greats--3 Heisman trophy winners and the former coach who is the namesake of our field.

7. Petrie Hall - Though nothing terribly remarkable, Petrie Hall houses a plaque outside the front door featuring the Auburn Creed. Alumni may not all know it word for word, but every Auburn man and woman has heard the creed a time or two thousand. If you're new to Auburn, it's worth reading. It may just give you the same chills that it gives Rob no matter how many times he hears it.

OK... we (Rob) may have gotten a little carried away on this page--but truthfully, if this is your first time in Auburn, this is a walk worth taking to experience the charming place we call home.