Arboretum Tour

Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum

You don’t need to leave campus to go on a nature walk.

The Maud Gordon Holmes Arboretum has approximately 1,700 trees that bloom in all seasons. The collection includes many specimen trees, as well as plantings of flowering crabapple, red oak, summit ash, London planetree, and Norway maple.

Visitors may walk—or drive along Iroquois Drive, Rees Street, and Rockwell Road—to take it all in.

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• Photo gallery
• Arboretum map (PDF)

History

The arboretum’s collection was badly damaged by the “surprise storm” of October 2006—an unprecedented wintry blast that dropped more than 24 inches of snow on parts of Western New York. In the years since the storm, new varieties of trees and have been planted to replace those that were destroyed.