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- The Real South
Our moderate year-round temperatures make it easy to enjoy Auburn & Opelika any time. Enjoy the thrill of football in the crisp autumn air, the sense of peace and renewal found among the blooming dogwoods and azaleas of spring, or the mild atmosphere of our winters and summers.
Start your day the way the locals do: with a traditional Southern breakfast at Auburn’s oldest restaurant, Jeff Price’s Barbecue House on South College Street. Whether you get it as a side with your pancakes, or on your biscuit, their special hot link sausage is a must.
Get your coffee to go and spend the rest of your morning strolling the beautiful streets of Auburn University’s campus and downtown Auburn. If it’s springtime, you won’t find a more breathtaking city this side of the Mason-Dixon. Be sure to check out the campus Arboretum where you’ll be wowed by the sights and scents of 150 different species of flora and fauna native to Alabama and the Southeast.
And if it’s fall, well…as one sportswriter so eloquently put it, “It’s like going to Mass in Rome;” you know you’re there. The palpable excitement of an Auburn football season is the stuff of legend. Let yourself get swept away in a sea of orange and blue. Hear the thunder of the marching band, the screaming fans, and the roaring tigers while you watch Auburn’s mystical and majestic War Eagle circle the playing field in an arc of prophetic triumph. And when the game ends, as it most often does, in an Auburn victory, make your way to the corner of Magnolia and College Streets for the quirkiest spectacle in these Unites States: the “rolling” of Toomer’s Corner.
Join thousands of AU faithful as they celebrate by hurling tissue into the surrounding trees, lamp posts, and anything that will stand still long enough. A decades-old tradition that often lasts for hours, a blizzard of paper will be left blanketing the entire intersection. It certainly explains why Auburn is the only city in the country with a line item in its budget for toilet tissue removal!
Dinner is an event at Opelika’s Warehouse Bistro. Chef-owned and operated since 1993, this culinary escape from the ordinary is charmingly housed in an actual industrial warehouse and features continental cuisine with French and Southern influences. Enjoy a tempting array of selections from duck liver paté and jumbo lump crab cakes to Norwegian salmon and New Zealand rack of lamb. You can’t make a bad decision – unless you choose to forego Chef Joe Hippely’s signature banana bread budding for dessert.
Use your second day in town to discover why Golf Digest named the Auburn-Opelika area the #1 golf destination in the Unites States. Take in a few rounds on your choice of three courses on Robert Trent Jones’ Grand National Golf Course in Opelika. Also named as America’s favorite public course by Golf World magazine, Grand National was built on Lake Saugahatchee, with 32 of the 54 holes draping along its filigreed shores.
The cornerstone of the complex is the Links Course, which is without a single weakness. And with 12 holes hugging the shore, the Lake Course is every bit as scenic as the Links. If you’re pressed for time – or worn out from playing the other two - the Short Course is a thing of beauty, with more than half the holes touching the lake. This 18-hole course of one-shotters might be the finest anywhere on the planet, according to golf writers.
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