Holden Fact Sheet
Founded 1931 on donated land
Original acreage 100
2007 acreage 3,500
Elevation 730-1266’
Latitude 41 degrees, 37’30”
Longitude 81 degrees, 17’30”
Average rainfall 43.85”
25 Ponds acres location
Baldwin 0.75 Scout Cabin area
Blueberry 2.20 Display Garden
Buttonbush Bog 1.40 Display Garden
Carver’s 9.30 North of Mitchell's Mills Bridge
Crystal 0.16 Butterfly Garden
Fisherman’s
(6 ponds) 9.15 Kirtland-Chardon Rd
Fosters 2.10 Display Garden
Heath East 1.02 Rhododendron Garden
Heath West 1.80 Rhododendron Garden
Hourglass 3.10 Rhododendron Garden
HSC 0.83 Horticultural Science Ctr.
John Bole 0.43 Bole House
Lily 0.30 Lantern Court Gardens
Lotus 0.80 Display Garden
Oak 0.23 Rhododendron Garden
Reflecting 0.18 Butterfly Garden
Sassafras 0.18 Overflow Parking
Strong Acres 0.27 Strong Acres Area
Turtle 0.92 Lantern Court Gardens
1 Lake acres location
Corning Lake 15.2 Display Garden
Hiking Trails
More than 20 miles of trails, including:
miles
Blueberry Pond 0.5
Bole Woods 1.5
Corning Lake 1.0
Crabapple 0.5
Highlights 1.0
Highlights extension 2.0
Old Valley 2.8
Pierson Creek Loop 1.9
Woodland 1.5
Plants
19,230 accessioned plants and mass plantings:
14,711 woody — 4,519 herbaceous
6,026 taxa (types of plants) of which 1,324 were collected wild
147 families
688 genera
2,199 species
3,273 cultivars
2,212 hybrids
Collections
Conifer, Magnolia, Crabapple, Nut Tree, Arthur S. Holden Sr. Hedge, Specimen Tree,
Lilac, Viburnum
Gardens acres plants
Arlene and Arthur S. Holden Jr. Butterfly Garden 2 1,048
Myrtle S. Holden Wildflower Garden (29 habitats) 5 1,788
Helen S. Layer Rhododendron Garden 20 2,123
Ann M. Whitney Memorial Garden 57
Display 30 2,192
Lantern Court 25
Holden Natural Areas acres
Baldwin Natural Areas 530
Bole Woods 92
Brainard Bog 15
Carver's Pond 9
Corning Woods 125
East Branch of the Chagrin 6
Fisherman’s Pond Area 210
Holden Meadows 350
Little Mountain 190 acres/
1,266’ peak elevation
Pierson Creek Valley 570
Stebbins Gulch (N and S) 820
Strong Acres 310
Bicknell Sugarbush 30
