Hoyt arboretum friends brings people and trees together. We create meaningful learning experiences in a unique global tree collection that we nurture in partnership with portland parks & recreation.
Education and visitor services: 500,000 people visit hoyt arboretum each year. Haff provides services so that visitors can see, understand, and appreciate over 6,000 special trees and find their way along 12 miles of trails covering 189 acres. These services include free maps and brochures in english and spanish, a website with events, seasonal highlights and our online plant database, staffed visitor center, interpretive signs, events, and volunteer programs, including volunteer tree and trail maintenance. Each year haff hosts thousands of students from across the city through our field trip program and serves schools from all around the portland region. Over two-thirds of participating children do so through the support of our scholarship program that covers the cost of trip fees and school buses. Haff also supports capital improvements to maintain and extend accessible trails so that all people can enjoy our trails.
Trees & trails: haff pays for a variety of maintenance and capital improvements for the trees and trails including new trees and plantings, basic gardening and tree care, trail restoration, tree collection renovations, tree labeling, and scientific record-keeping.