- Enjoy the bookstore, art gallery and introductory film at the Visitor Center open 9:30 to 4 week days and 12:30 to 4 week ends. Visit our photo gallery
- It’s skiing and snowshoeing season at the Arboretum. When we get a good snow like this, please stay on the trails and review our skiing and snowshoeing policy by clicking on the “read more” link. Read more… Visit our photo gallery
- See you on February 4, 2012 at the Wingra Oak Savanna Arbor Drive and Monroe Street parking lot.. Literally thousands of enthusiastic volunteers have helped restore and maintain the land that is the Arboretum. In addition to outside projects, there are a variety of indoor volunteer opportunities. Read more… Visit our photo gallery
- A new show by Rebecca Power has opened in the Steinhauer Trust Gallery: Revisioning: A New Look at Our Relationship With the Earth” My intent is to create photographic images that are seeing poems, images that offer a new and intimate vision of the plants, found objects, and landscapes that support us and enrich our lives when we take the time to stop—- for just a moment——and look. Visit our photo gallery
NEW ON OUR WEBSITE
See the Arboretum in a whole new way!
If you are a hiker, biker, birder, photographer, skier, researcher or historian -- or anyone who uses and enjoys the Arboretum, you'll want to check out our new interactive map (I-map). Measure the distance of your run, share your Arboretum experiences and photos, learn about our watershed -- and more! Go to the map.
If you are a hiker, biker, birder, photographer, skier, researcher or historian -- or anyone who uses and enjoys the Arboretum, you'll want to check out our new interactive map (I-map). Measure the distance of your run, share your Arboretum experiences and photos, learn about our watershed -- and more! Go to the map.
ARBORETUM NEWS
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A Record Breaking Year?
On a 40+ degree F January day, we had a great turnout for Sunday’s walk. The theme was “phenology” –the study of natural cycles of plants and animals, as well … Read more »
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Winter Trail Use
The Arboretum is prepared for snow and the skiing, snowshoeing and winter hiking season. We have designated over 10 miles of ski trails for winter 2011-12. Winter hiking and snowshoeing … Read more »
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Winter Birds in the Arboretum
How are our woodland, prairie and water birds able to survive the winter here? Feathers, which are unique to birds and distinguish the Class Avies, have a lot to do with birds being able to stay over winter. Read more »
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Conifer Tour
This afternoon twenty visitors gathered in the visitor center for our tour featuring Wisconsin’s twelve native conifers. Read more »