Facility Rental
LSU’s Hilltop Arboretum is a 14-acre museum of plants located on historic Highland Road. It is a tranquil landscape and ideal venue for those who want to have a small meeting or event, 50 people or less, while enjoying the beauty and serenity of nature.
Our award-winning facility was designed by Lake|Flato Architects of San Antonio, Texas. “Mr. Emory Wedding Tree” is a member of the Live Oak Society of the Louisiana Federation of Garden Clubs. This large live oak tree named in memory of Hilltop’s donor Mr. Emory Smith has a diameter of 17 feet, a focal point of the arboretum and a favorite site for weddings. Other beautiful views of nature include a pond with a wooden boardwalk surrounded by Louisiana aquatic plantings, a courtyard with pineland savannah plant collections, and wildflower meadows with an earthen amphitheater.
Tobacco Policy Louisiana State University Policy Statement 118 states that smoking and the use of all forms of tobacco products (cigarettes, cigars, water pipes/hookahs, e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff) is prohibited on all land, property, buildings, and other facilities owned and controlled by LSU. All staff, volunteers, and guests of LSU Hilltop Arboretum are expected to comply.
Imo Brown Complex
Margaret Holmes Brown Open-Air Pavilion
Cherry Owens Library
Bert Turner Courtyard
Beverly Brown Coates Auditorium Kitchen View
Beverly Brown Coates Auditorium Pond View
"Mr. Emory Wedding Tree"