The Longview Arboretum brings a garden walk to Cotton Street

At 706 W. Cotton Street, the Longview Arboretum gives the county a slower kind of outdoor place. It sits on 26 acres between the Longview Convention Complex and a Grace Creek tributary. The garden is a public-private partnership, privately managed but tied into the parks system.

The trail is small on purpose. The arboretum loop is a half mile, fully gated, with picnic areas and event spaces. That makes it different from Boorman or Cargill Long Trail. You go there for shade, flowers, or a short walk that does not ask for a whole morning.

The arboretum opened in 2019, adding a modern garden chapter to a county story often told through oil, rail, timber, and factories. The address matters in a quiet way, too. It puts the garden near civic buildings and a creek channel, not off on the edge of town. Because it sits by a Grace Creek tributary, it also belongs to Longview's creek-and-trail story, just in a more planted, formal way. That lets a garden-scale walk sit inside an ordinary Longview day, between meetings, errands, school events, and downtown traffic.