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This page is a walking guide to a portion of the GSU campus

Walking up Southern Drive, the main entrance to GSU off of Highway 301 you will notice planted live oaks, dogwoods, southern magnolias, and loblolly pines lining the roadside.

Taking a left onto sweetheart circle you will notice Herty Pines on your left.  Herty Pines is an area of natural forest on campus that holds extreme diversity.  You will not only find all of the 10 most common campus trees here but also Carolina cherry laurels, red maples, wax myrtles, sweetbays, laurel oaks, black cherry trees, redbuds, and a few other species of native and introduced trees.

To your right is Sweetheart Circle.  While not a natural area, Sweetheart Circle holds an immense diversity of trees.  There are towering live oaks, pecans, magnolias, red cedars, hollies, dogwoods, palmettos, Carolina cherry laurels, darlington oaks, longleaf pines, white oak, turkey oak, and crape myrtles.

Walking towards the Museum, you will see the newly created pedestrium on your left.  The pedestrium is lined with planted live oaks, crape myrtles, American hollies, laurel oaks, longleaf pines, and loblolly pines.

Taking a right at the end of the pedestrium and walking towards Russell Student Union you will see the Alumni House and the Math/Physics building on your left.  The front of these buildings have planted live oaks, water oaks, crape myrtles, southern magnolias, pecans, sycamores, loblolly pines, dogwoods, and darlington oaks.

Next, is the biology building.  This building has 3 large pecans and a holly tree in front of it.

Straight in front of you is the Russell Student Union and the Foy Fine Arts building.  This area houses southern magnolias, pecans, holly trees, crape myrtles, red cedars, live oaks, and Carolina cherry laurels with live oaks the most common species.

Taking a right and walking from the Foy Fine Arts building towards Henderson Library, the path is dominated by live oaks and small crape myrtles.

In front of Henderson Library are hollies, Red cedars, live oaks, and darlington oaks.

Across from Henderson Library are Lake Wells and Lake Ruby.  Surrounding these ponds are longleaf pines, loblolly pines, darlington oaks, weeping willows, sweetgums, live oaks, bald cypresses, and southern magnolias.

The pathway from Lakeside Cafe on your left to the IT building on the right is dominate by live oaks and crape myrtles but their are also small loblolly pines and shortleaf pines.

At the end of the walkway is a large grassy circle between the Chemistry and Education buildings.  The area around these buildings houses live oaks, palmettos, sweetgums, red maples, bald cypresses, crape myrtles, redbuds, pecans, and American elm trees.

Following the path between the Education and IT buildings you will enter the far right side of the Education parking lot.  The wooded area on the right contains the Wildlife Center.  This is a naturally forested area that holds a large amount of tree diversity.

Taking a right and walking along Register road, you will see the front of the Wildlife center and the Public Safety building.  The road from here back to Sweetheart Circle is lined with loblolly pines, longleaf pines, slash pines, dogwoods, live oaks, crape myrtles, post oaks, southern magnolias, hollies, and Bradford pear trees.