Georgetown Tree Walk
Explore Oak Hill’s tree-scape looking at the cemetery’s oldest trees.
Join a Significant Tree Walk with Historical Ecologist Michael Gaige on November 9, 2025 from 10:00 am till 11:30 am. Purchase tickets here.
Explore Oak Hill’s tree-scape looking at the cemetery’s oldest trees. They will discuss how to recognize them, identify different species, and what the cemetery may have looked like in the early 19th century.
In 2024 the Oak Hill Cemetery Historic Preservation Foundation commissioned a Significant Tree Report of the grounds to understand our historical ecology even before the cemetery was created. The report is a focused approach to understanding the property’s history including a field inventory and archival research. This work will serve as a foundation for our emerging Landscape Archive as well as our Landscape Master Plan to ensure that we document, understand and preserve our historic tree canopy.
You will be walking the grounds, sometimes steep and challenging, for the entire hour and a half. Please wear appropriate shoes, hats and bring water and walking stick if useful.
Michael Gaige is an independent consulting ecologist based in upstate New York. His work explores the intersection of nature, culture, and history at the landscape level. Michael works with organizations, private landowners, and design teams on park and landscape projects, historical ecology inventories, and conservation planning for natural areas.
Oak Hill Cemetery is located at 3001 R Street in Georgetown.
