Arboretum

An exciting place you can explore year-round is our campus arboretum, a three-acre preserve behind Brooks Hall.

The attractive setting, established in 1939, contains nearly 100 native, exotic, and ornamental tree and shrub species and is a living learning laboratory for students, as well as a quiet place to study.

Collections of trees include Sapindaceae (maple and buckeye), Fagaceae (beech, oak and chestnut), Juglandaceae (walnut and hickory), Fabaceae (locusts), and Betulaceae (birch and allies) families, as well as a wide range of conifers.

The Arboretum is located behind Brooks Hall and is open to the public from dawn to dusk. Please leave no trace and carry in what you carry out.