The nickname is a big part of campus culture. Forty Acres Fest is a campus-wide festival each spring featuring more than 100 student organizations, entertainment, food, music and games. UT’s most prestigious scholarships, the Forty Acres Scholarships, are jointly sponsored by the university’s alumni association, the Texas Exes, and our various schools and colleges. For many decades, the shuttle bus that circled the original Forty Acres plus what is now known as “central campus” was “the 40.” When the city’s bus service absorbed the UT shuttle bus system, the route became “the 640,” which you can catch today.
1928: A @UTAustin class change, as seen from the top floor of Garrison Hall. That’s Battle Hall across the way, and the old Main Building on the right. A decade later, this spot would be transformed with the creation of the Main Mall and UT Tower. @UT_HistDept pic.twitter.com/1K0yqIXgKO
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Now, UT’s main campus comprises 431 acres, with a perimeter of more than 4 miles, stretching from 15th to 30th streets and from office space in the West Campus neighborhood to Manor Road east of Interstate 35.
But that’s just the main campus. The university’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus in North Austin is actually bigger than the main campus, at 475 acres. UT’s Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Southwest Austin adds another 284 acres. And the university’s Brackenridge Tract, including field laboratories, stretches for 350 acres along Lake Austin.
Summer 1916: A view up University Avenue to the @UTAustin campus. With Old Main in the center (where the Tower stands today), you might recognize the Gebauer Building just to the right, now home to the College of Liberal Arts. @LiberalArtsUT pic.twitter.com/zfvaTOM1Wt
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But that’s just in Austin. UT’s McDonald Observatory in West Texas? That’s another 400 acres. Our Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas? There’s another 72 acres, with a 5-acre boat basin, and UTMSI manages the Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, which totals 186,189 acres.
Those “Forty Acres” are now in the thousands. Looks like you’ve got some exploring to do.
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