The Brockman Memorial Tree Tour

Welcome to the Brockman Memorial Tree Tour! The trees on this tour were selected to reflect the historic tree tour created by C. Frank Brockman as closely as possible. Since the tour's creation in the 1980s, some of the original trees have been lost to construction, disease, wind, and a variety of other factors occurring in the intervening 40 years. Fortunately, the campus grounds remain a vibrantly diverse place, and the tour has been restored to once again include a full 81 different specimens! The update ensured that each specimen was laid out in the same general loop as the original tour, providing an pleasant walk around campus for any wishing to experience this pleasant legacy tour. Depending on pace (and the level of engagement the participant has with each specimen on the tour) taking a self guided walk of this loop can take between 1 to 4 hours. The route is about 2.3 miles in length, and avoid stairs in an effort to be accessible for different abilities (however, please note that the UW Campus is a hilly place). For those interested in a guided walking tour, please visit our Additional Tour Information Page for more details on dates and arrangements. We hope you enjoy this excellent interactive campus experience!

Recently Removed Specimens:

As the campus changes, we sometimes lose our specimen trees. This is unfortuneate, but we try our best to replace them on the tour so that it can stay up to date! For those who are interested in learning more about past tour trees even if they cannot visit them on campus anymore, the pages below are some of the profiles for trees which were lost from the tour.

Carriere Hawthorn (Crataegus x lavalleei)

Silk Tree (Albizia julibrissin)

Weeping European White Birch (Betula pendula 'Tristis')