Graduate Fayetteville

Two blocks from Dickinson Street and few minutes’ walk from the University of Arkansas campus, Graduate Fayetteville offers a boutique-hotel experience steeped in Ozark charm. Like the other Graduate hotels, which offer stylish, upscale accommodations in college towns across the country, Graduate Fayetteville caters to diehard Razorback fans as well as visiting academics and parents.

It’s a rare high-rise Graduate, with expansive views of the town and its surroundings. Rooms are playfully decorated in bright colors and distinct patterns, and come standard with free wi-fi and Malin + Goetz amenities. Reclaimed wood floors and vintage-sourced furniture in the rooms and common spaces lend the hotel a distinct local character and a touch of a rustic vibe. And for a properly luxe experience, there’s the Washington Suite, complete with a sleeper sofa and its own wet bar.

Work up a sweat in the hotel’s fully equipped gym, or go for a swim in the indoor-outdoor pool, which is open year-round. The Trophy Room, the hotel’s restaurant, offers everything from breakfast to post-dinner drinks, all served in a playfully stylish double-height space that’s (thankfully) a long way upmarket from the sorts of places actual college students do the bulk of their dining and drinking.