Get to know the

Arboretum at South Seattle College

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For students, it's a classroom. For local residents, it's a park. For the city of Seattle, it is a welcome oasis of green in an increasingly densely populated city. 

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As beautiful as it is today, the odds of developing an arboretum on this site weren't good in 1978, when landscape students petitioned the College to create a hands-on, outdoor classroom.