ARBORETUM ENTRY

As you enter the Arboretum, tell the gatehouse you are headed to the Garden for Wildlife Parking Lot and they can assist you with additional directions

PARKING
FREE Parking, gravel lot

DO NOT park in the main Arboretum Visitor Center lots. The Garden for Wildlife Parking Lot is 1 mile away from the main lots. 

TIMING

Due to the location of this lot at the far end of Three-Mile Drive, you will want to allow an extra 15 minutes to circumnavigate Three-Mile Drive 10mph traffic conditions.

ACCESS VIA THREE-MILE DRIVE (NOT accessible by car in winter)

• Enter the Arboretum through the Highway 5/Arboretum Blvd main entrance
• Drive past the gatehouse and the pass the Visitor Center
• Turn left immediately after the Visitor Center at the T-intersection, towards Three-Mile Drive
• Go up the short hill (you will pass the Visitor Center on your left)
• At the first intersection, turn right on Three-Mile Drive
• Follow Three-Mile Drive past the Behrens Cabin, Prairie, weeping trees, and crabapple collection
• Turn left into the very next parking lot PAST the crabapples.
• It is a gravel lot.