Walk – UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Date/Time
Date(s) - 05/09/23
10:00 am - 11:30 am

Location
UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Categories

Monthly Events

UCSC Arboretum & Botanic Garden Walk

DUE TO RAINY WEATHER, WALK IS RESCHEDULED TO MAY 9th.

As part of our new COVID-19 protocols, walkers must sign up on our NEW myHPREC website in advance and supply their emergency contact information electronically. This is necessary to avoid close contact on the day of the walk and to make sure the maximum of number of walkers for each session is 30 (including the walk leader).

Meet at one of two places:

Carpool from Los Gatos at 9:20 am, Northside Parking Lot on CA-9 between University and Santa Cruz Avenues. Sign reads: “Free Unlimited Parking – Northside Lot.” Take CA-17 south toward Los Gatos. Exit at CA-9 Los Gatos/Saratoga and continue west on CA-9 for 0.3 mile to the parking lot on your right, just before Santa Cruz Avenue.

At UCSC Arboretum. Take CA-17 south from San Jose toward Santa Cruz, where you will follow signs to “Half Moon Bay-Highway 1 North”. CA-1 becomes Mission Street. After about a mile, turn right at the Bay Street traffic light, to drive up to the UCSC campus. Turn left at the High St.-Empire Grade traffic light at the base of campus (don’t go in the main entrance). Stay on High Street for a half mile. The entrance to the Arboretum is to your right. If you arrive at the west entrance to campus, you have gone too far.

Admission is free on the first Tuesday of the month. The two parking lots are joined by a circle around a large tree, where we will meet at 10 am. Take water/drink and a lunch (may leave in the car).

https://arboretum.ucsc.edu/visit/directions/index.html

https://goo.gl/maps/TCxom6Cuzcb2htnc8

https://arboretum.ucsc.edu/visit/garden/index.html

The walk begins at the Arboretum parking lot circle at 10 am.

The UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden’s rich and diverse collection contains representatives of more than 300 plant families of Mediterranean climates. The garden maintains collections of rare and threatened plants of unusual scientific interest. Particular specialties are world conifers, primitive angiosperms and bulb-forming plant families. Large assemblages of plants from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and California natives are displayed on the grounds. Many of the species in these collections are not otherwise available for study in American botanical gardens and arboreta. Norrie’s Gift & Garden Shop at the Arboretum will be selling plants, including California natives, on May 2.

If you want to cancel your reservation/sign up:
Call or send an email message to the event leader and inform the leader of your cancellation. (grpowers@gmail.com or call Gary Powers at 801-619-0544)