Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/07/26
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Location
UC Santa Cruz Arboretum
Categories
Walk – UC Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanical Garden
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 miles to the parking lot on your right, just before Santa Cruz Avenue.
- At UC Santa Cruz Arboretum. Take CA-17 south from San Jose toward Santa Cruz, then follow signs to “Half Moon Bay-Hwy 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 Street-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 lunch (may leave them in the car).
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. Specialties include 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 and Garden Shop at the arboretum will be selling plants, including California natives.
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)
