Brooks Memorial Arboretum

Brooks Memorial Arboretum in Watoga State Park near Hillsboro, West Virginia, occupies the drainage of Two Mile Run within the park’s 10,100 acres. Laid out around trails that follow the hollow and climb the ridges on either side, it is organized as a garden within a broader forest setting. Its plantings and woodland feature mature yellow poplars, Ohio buckeyes, cottonwoods, and other native species. The arboretum is significant as a place devoted to the forest landscape and native trees characteristic of this part of West Virginia.

West Virginia · United States