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If youâre looking for a weekend getaway in some green space, a short drive will get you to Morgantown which has an expanse of different venues where you can forget about the daily grind.
The West Virginia University Core Arboretum was established in 1948 when the university acquired the property and established the Evansdale Campus.
Zach Fowler, WVU Core Arboretum director, said there was a biology professor, Earl Core, for which the arboretum is named.
âHe had been bringing his students to the property that was privately owned because it had some old growth forest and some really awesome spring ephemeral wildflowers and it was sort of a botanical treasure that he knew about already,â Fowler said.