Exercise your mind and body at the Pleasant Hills Story Hike!! Presented by the Pleasant Hills Public Library, the A. W. Robertson Arboretum, Jefferson Regional Foundation, and Remake Learning Days, the Pleasant Hills Story Hike features a picture book that you can read while walking along the meadow trail. Each frame contains a page from the book, and sometimes also fun trivia or activity suggestions. Once you have completed the trail, you will also have finished the book!

In an effort to promote early literacy learning and family engagement, titles are selected for families with young children in mind. However, all ages can experience the wonder of nature while enjoying our Story Hike. Titles will change seasonally so make sure to visit again and again!

Please contact Dani Danylo, youth services Librarian at Pleasant Hills Public Library, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with any questions regarding the Pleasant Hills Story Hike.

Dani Danylo
Youth Services Librarian
Pleasant Hills Public Library.

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Have you noticed the beautiful split rail wooden fence now being erected on the perimeter of the West Bruceton side of the Pleasant Hills Arboretum?  This new and attractive rustic fence was made possible by a donation from the estate of Pleasant Hills resident, Deborah Heilman.  

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Replacing the Japanese Umbrella tree near the parking lot is our newest planting, a Yellowwood tree.  This rare North American species of tree is noted for its pale yellow flowers, but our species is even more unique.  

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The Arboretum Board is pleased to announce that the Pleasant Hills Arboretum is now home to an officially registered Little Free Library!   

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Visitors to the Pleasant Hills Arboretum will be pleased to know that we now have another ancient and rare tree growing in the Pleasant Hills Arboretum.  

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Resting under the shade of the London plane tree is a brand new picnic table, provided to the Pleasant Hills Arboretum through the generosity of our Pleasant Hills Lion’s Club.  

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We are featured in the Laurel Mountain Post! Read it here.

Arboretum Board and Volunteers Dig Their New Trees! On November 15, 2014, more than 25 volunteers gathered on a cold and frosty morning at the Pleasant Hills Arboretum for the planting of 18 new trees received through a grant from Tree Vitalize.

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After several decades of over browsing by deer in the Pleasant Hills Arboretum, the Arboretum Board decided to take action to prevent continued damage to the understory of the forest environment, a problem that is causing the failed regeneration of trees, shrubs, and plants.

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The Pleasant Hills Arboretum Board is proud to announce that in July 2014, the Pleasant Hills Arboretum was officially accredited at level one in the Arb Net on-line interactive community of arboretums.

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