They are the United States Intermountain West's oldest and one of the largest public demonstration sites for renewable energy.

These awards have come from three different United States Presidents: Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush (senior) and Bill Clinton.

[4] The master plan and many of the designs for the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens were created by landscape architect, Herbert R. Schaal, of the firm EDAW.

Herb Schaal is one of the most award-winning landscape architects in the United States and his work tends to focus on public botanical gardens and arboreta.

This site included a large native stone garage (now the classroom/laboratory) and rock wall which now surrounds the Children's Village.

The garage and wall were constructed in the early 1930s as part of the Works Progress Administration (a depression era job training program).

In 1930, the site officially became the Cheyenne Horticulture Field Station, and was directed to concentrate on fruits, vegetables, windbreaks and ornamental plants.

Late in the summer of 2000, a group of interested participants gathered to begin an effort to "preserve, restore and enhance" the arboretum.

This group is now a sub-committee of the Friends of the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens.They were motivated because there are still many of the trees and shrubs still exist that were once part of the Horticulture Station's landscape and research.

The Cheyenne Botanic Gardens High Plains Arboretum has a 20-year master-plan developed by noted landscape architect, Herbert R. Schaal, with the goal of creating a public arboretum that works to preserve, restore and enhance the 62-acre (250,000 m2) portion of the station that includes the original remaining research plant testing sites.

The High Plains Arboretum is in the beginning stages of development and arrangements can be made to view the site through the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens.