Mission:

1. To grow, display, and maintain native plants of Oregon in the Arboretum in the Dallas City Park.
2. To provide educational opportunities to any person who wishes to participate in the recognition, appreciation, preservation, Scientific study, or landscape use of native plants.
3. To promote public interest in and to raise funds for the accomplishment of these objectives.

Since 1983, Friends of the Delbert Hunter Arboretum and Botanic Garden, a non-profit organization, has planned and developed a recreational and educational resource with the Dallas city park.

Here is a unique opportunity to see a living museum of Native plants. The varied terrain of the Arboretum provides ecological niches suited to perennials, conifers, oaks, wetland species and dryland desert plants. Recently added is a rock garden of native Lewisia plants honoring Viola Sobolik, the first curator.

The Arboretum is open year-round. Tours are self-guided. Identification and interpretive signs enable visitors to appreciate the variety of Oregon trees, shrubs and flowers. Many of these specimens are seldom found so accessible.