Auburn is the largest city in eastern Alabama with the city of Opelika to the northeast. It is nicknamed, "The Loveliest Village On The Plains" and home of Auburn University. Auburn sits on the fall line at the juncture of the piedmont plateau and the coastal plain and near the divide between the Chattahoochee and Tallapoosa River watersheds.

Auburn is the home to the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art and there are many parks with trails for hiking and biking and lakes for swimming, fishing and boating.