Guided Tours and Group Visits Group visitors often want to
include a free guided tour as part of their educational or
recreational arboretum visit. Group free tours are offered when
a Tour Reservation Request Form, downloadable from this page, is
submitted electronically, by mail, or by fax with fourteen days
advance notice, for groups of six or more. Groups requesting
tours vary and may be entire classes or grade levels for public
schools, community agencies, civic groups, garden clubs,
homeschool groups, or elder hostels. Visitors of all ages learn
about nature, botany, horticulture, ecology, and plant and tree
species native to the Appalachians. Tours normally are given on
the arboretum grounds, but each spring a guided field trip
showcasing notable wildflower sites, and each fall a guided
field trip showcasing remarkable trees are also offered. The
Forest Web Discover how living and non-living organisms coexist
and thrive in the forest ecology. While learning how to identify
forest species, particularly V