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Experience every season of the Atlanta Beltline Arboretum or our beautiful city by joining us on an upcoming Tree Tour. Tours are offered year-round (primarily on Fridays or Saturdays). Most of our tours start or end where you can enjoy a refreshment nearby or continue exploring the city on your own. Tree Tours are often guided walks, but tours by bike are offered on occasion, as well as tree tours combined with guidance from experts from related interests, such as birding or native plants.Ī Tree Tour takes approximately 90 minutes and is a leisurely stroll. In addition to the Atlanta BeltLine, other Tree Tours are offered periodically in neighborhoods across the city that introduce you to the beautiful tree lined streets of Grant Park, Ansley Park, Piedmont Park, Inman Park, Virginia Highlands, and other Neighborhood Arboreta. Each Trees Atlanta volunteer docent (tour guide) prepares their own unique talking points on native trees and plants, architectural interests, key historical stories, and more - so every tour offers different perspectives and color. Regularly scheduled tours are offered for the Eastside, Westside, Northeast, and Southside Trails. Tree Tours on the Atlanta BeltLine Arboretum are guided walks through the botanical and historical points of interest on the trail. All the while, the trees and plants in the arboretum enhance the trail experience with beauty and health benefits of nature in the city. The arboretum serves as a component of Atlanta’s urban forest, acts as an ecological corridor, a place for education, community science, and scientific research, and a learning landscape. With nearly 2 million trail users each year, the Atlanta BeltLine provides an unprecedented opportunity to use the arboretum to educate the public about ecological restoration, utilizing native plants, and how urban ecology can reconnect fragmented communities. The system circles downtown Atlanta and connects 45 neighborhoods directly to each other and creates incentives to choose pedestrian movement over vehicular to places that Atlantans live, work, and play. It is a sustainable redevelopment project that connects a network of public parks, multi-use trails, and light-rail transit along a main paved trail artery that reuses a historic 22-mile railroad corridor. The Atlanta BeltLine is one of the largest, most wide-ranging urban redevelopment programs in the United States. Additionally, over 500,000 non-accessioned live grasses, vines, and wildflowers have been planted within the Arboretum since 2013, along with 1,600 pounds of seeds of native plants sown in the meadow spaces.

Eighty-eight genera of trees and shrubs are represented and identified with permanent signage.

The Atlanta BeltLine Arboretum currently has 9,000 accessioned plants in its collection, with 369 unique tree and shrub species and cultivars.

In conjunction with continued trail development, the Arboretum will expand as new trees are planted and accessioned into the Arboretum collections. This managed greenspace on the Atlanta BeltLine is known as the Atlanta BeltLine Arboretum. This acreage is composed of approximately 46 acres of planted space, and the remaining 39 acres are natural areas under restoration management. Trees Atlanta currently manages 85 acres of linear greenspace along 13 miles of the Atlanta BeltLine corridor, including the Eastside Trail, Eastside Trail Extension, Westside Trail, Southside Trail, Northeast Trail, and Bill Kennedy Way Connector.