About Cornell Plantations

Cornell Plantations is an area of great natural beauty—part of one of America’s most renowned university campuses.
As the arboretum, botanical garden, and natural areas of Cornell University, Cornell Plantations has a lot to offer.

Arboretum

The F. R. Newman Arboretum features a wide range of native and cultivated varieties of trees and shrubs that are hardy in New York State. Our collections include maples, oaks, crabapples, conifers, dogwoods, urban trees, and other species in a 150-acre pastoral setting. Specialty gardens in the arboretum include the Zucker Flowering Shrub Collection and the Treman Woodland walk.

Botanical garden

Our 25-acre botanical garden features 14 specialty gardens, including herbs, flowers, heritage vegetables, international crops, rock garden plants, rhododendrons, peonies, perennials, ornamental grasses, ground covers, and plants with winter interest.

Central campus gardens

Our collections also encompass gardens on Cornell’s central campus, including the Deans Garden, Mary Rockwell Azalea Garden, Class of ’60 Daylily Garden, and Meunscher Poisonous Plants Garden.

Natural areas

Plantations protects and manages over 40 natural areas spanning nearly  4300 acres of rich and diverse habitats.  With some of the most scenic places in the Finger Lakes Region, Plantations jewels include our well known Beebe Lake and Cascadilla and Fall Creek Gorges, as well as other wetlands, gorges, glens, meadows, bogs, fens, and old-growth forests.  These ecologically important areas are available for research, education, hiking, and nature study.