Sewanee: The University Of The South

America’s Best Small Towns of 2025

"Set atop Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau, Sewanee looks like a sleepy college town lost in the woods but is surprisingly active culturally—throughout its 170-year history it has been entangled in wider hopes, conflicts, and traditions, and today it supports artistic self-expression across books, poetry, music, architecture, dance, and theater. The town sustains long-running institutions like The Sewanee Review (America’s oldest continuously published literary quarterly) and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and local scholars note that Sewanee is a place where ideas form and take root." - Travel + Leisure Editors Travel + Leisure Editors Since 1971, Travel + Leisure editors have followed one mission: to inform, inspire, and guide travelers to have deeper, more meaningful experiences. T+L's editors have traveled to countries all over the world, having flown, sailed, road tripped, and taken the train countless miles. They've visited small towns and big cities, hidden gems and popular destinations, beaches and mountains, and everything in between. With a breadth of knowledge about destinations around the globe, air travel, cruises, hotels, food and drinks, outdoor adventure, and more, they are able to take their real-world experience and provide readers with tried-and-tested trip ideas, in-depth intel, and inspiration at every point of a journey. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines