One Plantations Road
(607) 255-2400
plantations@cornell.edu
www.cornellplantations.org
Cornell Plantations is Cornell University’s arboretum, botanic garden, natural areas, and many on-campus gardens—places of exceptional beauty, diversity, and learning opportunities. Areas managed include over 4,000 acres of natural areas on and off campus in addition to the 150 acres in the F. R. Newman Arboretum and the 25 acres of botanical gardens in and around central campus. Visit our year-round Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center for visiting information as well as for gifts and refreshments.
Cornell Plantations provides unique outdoor laboratories and plant collections for Cornell’s academic programs and research in disciplines such as ecology and evolutionary biology, landscape architecture, ornamental horticulture, and bioengineering. While many of Cornell Plantations’ resources are on or near campus, several thousand acres in and around Tompkins County preserve quality examples of native vegetation and rare plants and animals. The lands include bogs, fens, glens, swamps, wet and dry forests, vernal ponds, and meadows. Arrangements to use these natural areas for classes and research can be made by calling Cornell Plantations. Cornell Plantations has something for everyone. It includes the many places that non-horticultural students and faculty members visit for classes ranging from art, literature, and women’s issues, to nutrition.
Credit Courses
Cornell Plantations offers two for-credit courses: HORT 4800 - Plantations Lecture Series and HORT 4850 - Public Garden Management . HORT 4800 is a 1-credit S–U lecture series offered each fall. HORT 4850 is a 3-credit course offered alternate spring semesters. Cornell Plantations also offers noncredit classes and workshops such as botanical illustration, arts and crafts, gardening techniques, and ecology walks; visit www.cornellplantations.org, or call (607) 255-2400 for more information.
Internships
Since the 1990s, more than 150 university students have worked side by side with Plantations’ knowledgeable staff, learning and having fun as participants in Cornell Plantations’ internship program. Positions in horticulture, natural areas management, and education are available each year, beginning after finals in May. All positions strive to build on classroom learning through hands-on work, encouraging students’ interests in horticulture and the natural world. Visit the website for details.
Master’s Program
Cornell Plantations’ master of professional studies program offers fully funded fellowships in public garden leadership. Visit the website for program details.
Planning a Visit
To discover all that is Cornell Plantations, visit www.cornellplantations.org or stop by our Nevin Welcome Center located in the botanical garden off of Judd Falls Road and Plantations Road.