ASU’s Tempe Campus is Gorgeous! The campus is filled with fantastic architecture, buzzing with hot bodied students, and the atmosphere is absolutely electric! This is one of our favorite places to bring friends and family when they are visiting us from out of town. Walking around campus is amazing! There is so much to see and experience here at ASU. I highly recommend stopping by ASU if you are heading down to Tempe while you winter visitors are in town! I typically like to start out at the business school parking in the covered parking at the W. P. Carey Arizona School of Business, even though it costs $2.00 / Hour it’s worth it since it certainly can get hot here in AZ. Additionally this structure is on the South end of campus and gives you a great starting point to walk around the whole campus.
If you’re taking a walk around campus during school hours in the middle of the semester you’ll certainly see lots of lots of the student body running around (there’s about fifty two thousand of them). Here’s my list of top things to see on campus:
SunDevil Stadium
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The top photo here is of Sun Devil Stadium during graduation in 2009. President Obama spoke at this graduation ceremony to a packed house of both faculty and students as well as their friends and family. The bottom picture from inside the stadium during an ASU football game.
Rec Center
This is a panoramic photo of ASU’s student recreation center on the Tempe Campus. This is both the rec center field which has a baseball diamond, a running track, and several sand volleyball courts. Additionally you can see the huge rec center building in the background where students can go to take aerobics classes, play some basketball, lift weights, or just lounge by the pool.
Old Main
The picture above is of “Old Main” which is, I believe, the oldest building on campus dating back to 1898 (which was even before Arizona was a state!). President Teddy Roosevelt dedicated the Roosevelt Dam from those steps (well… probably not Those steps as the building has been restored) in 1911!
Palm Walk
The image above is of “Palm Walk” the man thoroughfare through campus with the dorms and University Bridge on one and and the rec center on the other. This walkway is lined with 99 palm trees dating as far back as 1916 and some as tall as 90 feet!
University Bridge
The image above is of University Bridge at dusk. This bridge connects the North Campus Dorms with the main campus area. It’s a gorgeous bridge that was originally designed by a chiropractor to have very little stress on the legs and lower back of the students that walk across this bridge multiple times each day.