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Follow the brick path: take the Garden’s main trail, and learn the unique characteristics of desert plants from around the world. Featuring the Garden’s oldest plantings, this 1/3 mile trail features a rich variety of displays and exhibits, and leads to all trailheads and facilities.
Explore the great diversity of form, texture and color found in this wondrous array of cacti and succulents from around the world.
As desert dwellers, we interact with our surroundings, and this trail explores the many uses of desert plants for food, construction, tools, basket-making and more. Twist agave fibers into twine and pound mesquite beans to make flour on this 1/3 mile trail. Closed at sunset.
Change your point of view on this 1/4 mile trail, which features dramatic vistas of distant mountains and close-up looks at the surrounding desert. A variety of fascinating exhibits focus on both the plants and animals of the Sonoran Desert. Closed at sunset.
In the Garden's newest exhibit, the Herb Garden, you will become familiar with a variety of desert-adapted herbs. Highlights include: A Wildlife Garden, Picante Garden, Tea and Culinary Gardens, and a Medicinal Garden. Closed at sunset.
On this trail, you’ll see how wildflowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies (and people, too). Discover the beauty, color, and diversity of wildflowers in North America deserts, and how they play a role in the desert’s ecosystem. Closed at sunset.
