Southern Adventist University is located close to where I-24 meets I-75. It is 30 minutes from Chattanooga, one of the two leading cities* in Urban Renewal. The University is 20 minutes from the airport and 25 minutes from the terminal of the Express Shuttle to Atlanta and Nashville.

Chattanooga city has the best fresh-water aquarium in the world, an I-Max theater, miles of greenway, a symphony orchestra, a superb library system, a drama theater, many health-care facilities, a variety of restaurants, one of the largest malls in the South, etc.

The area within two to three hours' drive is blessed with scores of lakes and rivers for boating, tubing, canoeing, kayaking, sculling, and swimming. There are dozens of state parks, with picnic and camping facilities; lake and river access; hiking and riding and trails; and rock-climbing areas. There are pocket and full-size wilderness areas. You can find several impressive caves nearby. And then there is Great Smoky Mountain National Park accessible three ways, one of them being the new Cherahola Skyway.

Several Churches are within easy driving distance from SAU as is Cohutta Springs, a Conference camp and meeting center.

The changes of seasons here are striking. Winters have not been cold in recent years, and snow accumulates just infrequently enough to cause great excitement on Campus. Springtime is a never-ending riot of color as weeds, bushes, and trees bloom. Summers usually have a couple of months hot enough to drive you into air-conditioning or to the River. Fall in our area is widely known for its wonderfully crisp, cool air and for the colors of the autumn leaves.

*Earth Day Issue of Time Magazine (April/May 2000; vol. 155, no. 17), page 51, lower right.