Roughly 100 miles outside Nashville, at the southern tip of the Cumberland Plateau, sits a small, picturesque college campus. The buildings are old and built of limestone, castle-like.

This is the University of the South, known as Sewanee. It’s often noted as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the country.

One reason for that distinction? While campus is just a one-mile radius, it’s surrounded by 13,000 acres of forests, waterfalls and wildlife.

And it’s easy to access — the campus is fully encompassed by a 20-mile loop known as the Perimeter Trail.

On a warm evening in late September, 12 students gathered to hike a couple miles of the P Trail, as it is affectionately known. It’s the early days of autumn — the leaves are just beginning to yellow, and the brush is brimming wi

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