Over 50 individuals, including community members and employees of Goldman Sachs, volunteered for 3 hours to plant 31 new trees in Sugar House Park for the inaugural annual arboretum tree planting event.

Sugar House Park is the 4th Accredited Arboretum in Utah by ArbNet

Thirty-six trees were selected for the Level 1 Sugar House Park Arboretum.

The Utah Community Forestry Partnership (CFP) grant is administered through the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands in cooperation with the USDA Forest Service.

Ninety-six (96) volunteers participated in Mulch Madness to remove sod at the base of trees and add a ring of mulch for a future arboretum.

Sugar House Park Authority Board and TreeUtah are organizing ‘Mulch Madness’, a volunteer event to prepare 35 specimen trees in Sugar House

Park Authority works towards Arboretum Accreditation for Sugar House Park in April 2025

From Tuesday, January 14, to Wednesday, January 23, SavATree, hired by Sugar House Park Authority, will prune 35 trees in the park.

Sugar House Park Arboretum Accreditation Start-up awarded the 2024 David R. Keller Sustainability Prize of $5,000.

In the March 2024 Sugar House Park Authority board meeting, Dustin Wiberg, Park Development Project Manager of Salt Lake County Parks and Recreation, presented an Arboretum Plan for Sugar House Park. The goal of an outlined Arboretum Plan is to submit for Level 1 Arboretum Certification with ArbNet.org . Level 1 accreditation has six required elements. Arboretum Plan Organization or Governance Group Staff or volunteer support Public Access Labeled/signed specimen trees One ev