The Dawes Arboretum

The dawes arboretum's learning and engagement department (l&e) instructs and engages daily with nearly 5,300 members, 115,000 visitors and the extended community. L&e offers nature education and exploration opportunities for adults and children through self-guided interpretive signage on grounds as well as professionally led programming and curricula focused on stem and the promotion of outdoor environmental learning.annually, camp dawes welcome over 3,200 school-aged children (5-14) from diverse backgrounds to safely observe and explore nature/ structured and self-guided curricula engages children in a variety of eco-systems, creates outdoor-inspired crafts with friends and cultivates a lifelong sense of curiosity and adventure as it related to our natural world.