HOURS
OF OPERATION:
Grounds:
Open to the Public Dawn to Dusk, Year Round
OAC
Centennial Arboretum Centre: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.,
Monday - Friday (Closed Statuatory Holidays)
J.C.
Taylor Centre: Currently Closed.
Admission
to The Arboretum is free!
DIRECTIONS:
Directions
(including the maps, below) are available for download in
PDF format, which can then be printed. Download.
If
Walking or Biking:
Use the above maps to get to East Ring Road. Follow
this until you come to Arboretum Road, then turn
East onto Arboretum Road and continue about 0.1 km
to The Arboretum Entrance and the Information
Kiosk.
If
Driving
Use the above maps to get to College Avenue. Our entrance is the last driveway on the south side of the Road on College Avenue East near Victoria Road.
Parking
is free for visitors to The Arboretum,
in the parking lots designated on the above map. Visitors
to the University of Guelph main campus are asked to kindly
refrain from parking on The Arboretum grounds.
By Bus:
Take
the city bus #52 University/Kortright, to the Arboretum
Road stop on East Ring Road. Follow Arboretum
Road to the Information Kiosk and from there
walk along the Ivey Trail.
The
OAC Centennial Arboretum Centre:
From
the entrance on College Avenue, continue South about 0.3 km to the parking lot on the left. The OAC Centennial
Arboretum Centre is on the right.
If walking from campus, take Arboretum Road off East Ring Road to the kiosk and follow the Ivey Trail or Arboretum Promenade from the entrance
to The Arboretum Centre.
The J.C.
Taylor Centre:
From
the far (east) end of the parking lot, you can access the
Ivey Trail (look for the split-rail fence) which
leads to the south corner of Victoria Woods and the J.C.
Taylor Centre.
The Arboretum's Co-ordinates are:
Latitude 43 degrees 32'27.20"N
Longitude 80 degrees 12'54.90"W
Download
the Acrobat (pdf) version of The Arboretum direction maps here.
If
you don't have Acrobat, click here to download a free version
of Adobe Acrobat Reader.
