Botanical garden located in Papago Park has more than 50,000 plants, one-third of which are native to the area, including 379 species, which are rare, threatened or endangered
General Information
Members-only entry at 6:00am on Sundays and Wednesdays
Closed: Select holidays and during extreme weather
Children under 2 & Members: Free
Community Day (2nd Tuesday each month): Free
Active Military (with ID): Free
Special events may require separate tickets
Only service animals and dogs during designated Dog Days
Scottsdale, AZ (5 mi)
Tempe, AZ (6 mi)
Best visited October through April for cooler weather and seasonal blooms
How to Get There
Get on I-10 E. Continue on I-10 E. Take AZ-202/AZ-202Loop E to N 52nd St. Take exit 4 from AZ-202/AZ-202Loop E. Take E Van Buren St and N Galvin Pkwy to destination.
Overview
The Desert Botanical Garden is a 140-acre garden in Papago Park in Phoenix, and one of the best places in the country to see how plants live in the desert. Its trails wind through collections of more than 50,000 plants from around the world, with especially rich collections of cacti and agave, plus Baja California, Australian and South American gardens and native ecosystems such as a mesquite bosque and desert grassland.
Founded in 1937 by the Arizona Cactus and Native Flora Society, it moved to its current site in 1939. It offers tours, workshops, spring and fall concert series, art exhibitions and the beloved Las Noches de las Luminarias holiday festival, held since 1978 by the light of 8,000 hand-lit luminarias.
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Desert Botanical Garden", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0
