
Garfield Park Lagoon Tree Tour
Learn more about your local trees with this guide to the amazing variety of trees at Garfield Park. Using this guide you will find 50 trees, each with a round numbered tag corresponding to a location on the map. Paper guides are available at the Garfield Park Field House (Gold Dome).
Garfield Park Lagoon Trees
Using this Map
Click/Tap on a circle to view a tree's common name and scientific name.
If you are AT Garfield Park, you can use the Locator Circle icon in the lower right corner of the map to zoom to where you are standing.
Tip: Press the Expand button in the top right corner to make the map full screen size.
Reasons to Love Trees
- Trees provide animals (such as birds, mammals, insects) with a place to live (habitat), food, and protection.
- Trees filter pollutants by absorbing gases and filter fine particulates such as dust and smoke out of the air by trapping them on leaves and bark.
- The dense foliage soaks up the sun’s rays and provides cooling shade. Development from buildings and paved surfaces make urban areas particularly hot and trees help reduce this effect.
- By absorbing water and intercepting rainfall, trees reduce stormwater runoff and help prevent floods.
- Living close to and recreating in green spaces can improve physical and mental health, for example by decreasing high blood pressure and stress.
Nature in the Parks
Learn more about nature in Chicago Parks at https://www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/nature