Family Activities:

Desert Botanical Gardens

Attraction

Desert Botanical Gardens

1201 North Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, 85008, AZ

Follow the trails that wind through this garden’s 14 acres to discover the diversity of desert plants. A good place to start is the Desert Discovery Trail with its cacti from North and Central America. The Sonoran Desert trails showcases the area’s vegetation. See acacia trees, organ pipe cacti, mesquite thickets, chaparral and prickly pear cactus. Along the way, kids can grind corn and twist agave fibers to make twine or brushes.