The Noah Jarrel Monarch Way Station is a perennial and annual flower garden with plants selected that host and feed butterflies.
Conservation Corner adjacent to the garden, is a wild area of open meadow, with some additional shrub and tree plantings. A short, mulched path winds through it and makes this diverse habitat accessible.
The Cemetery contains pockets of, and bordered by woods; providing habitat for a multitude of wildlife.

Explore:

• 5 miles of internal roads

• Monuments to Charleston’s History

• Views, Birds, and Wildlife

• Wooded Trails

• Mature Native and Ornamental trees

The arboretum provides tremendous eco-benefits to the City of Charleston including over 1,700 pounds of air pollutant removal annually, nearly 4.8 million gallons of stormwater runoff prevention annually, and 133,000 kilowatts of electricity savings per year.

Trees are important to the health of the Kanawha Valley by manufacturing oxygen, sequestering carbon dioxide and some airborne pollutants, and preventing stormwater runoff. They provide food and shelter for birds and wildlife. They support and are supported by a multitude of insect, bacterial, and fungi species. The Arboretum itself can be thought of as a complex organism.