Step into your weekend on a morning hike with Ranger Jacque! Ranger Jacque leads you on a 3.7-mile hike, starting at the Nature Center, and making a clockwise loop on the Moonlight, San Tan, Gold Mine, and Little Leaf trails. This trail is rated moderate-difficult. Please prepare by wearing appropriate shoes/clothing, sun protection, and bringing...
Join Ranger Nikki on an easy hike to learn about a variety of desert plant and animal life. Join Ranger Nikki on a 2-mile hike to learn about our fascinating Sonoran Desert and how plants and animals survive, particularly during the summer. We will also visit Petroglyph Plaza on the Waterfall Trail and talk about...
This Summer, join a ranger at 9 am for a 45 to 60 minute fossil discovery walk. This is a fun, family-friendly activity. The program is a favorite of Junior rangers who are able to explore a fossil bed and discover brachiopods, sponges, and other marine creatures preserved here in limestone for millions of years....
This 90-minute tour provides a unique opportunity to learn how innovative engineering and optical technology melds with manufacturing techniques to produce the largest and most advanced giant (8.4 meters / 27 ft) telescope mirrors in the world on the University of Arizona campus. Visitors will see the unparalleled technology and revolutionary processes in making the...
Chat with paleontologists at work in the Museum Demonstration Lab and peek in the windows to view the fossils they are cleaning and conserving from Petrified Forest National Park. Free with Park Fee
The Sonoran Desert has been inhabited by humans for nearly 8000 years. Join us at the Tucson Mountain District Red Hills Visitor Center in the theater to learn about several desert plants that helped sustain human life over that time. Free with Park Fee
Learn all about our desert’s majestic saguaro cacti with Ranger Nikki. Join Ranger Nikki for a drop-in session to learn all about our desert’s majestic saguaro cacti. Learn about their life cycle from tiny seed to fallen skeleton and all the beneficial things it provides in between. If you plan to hike before or after,...
Age at least 8 yrs but less than 13 yrs Jun 28, 2024 Fri 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Turn muggles into Wizards with Harry Potter science experiments. Students will embark on a spellbinding adventure as they explore scientific principles through experiments, enchanted crafts, and games to reveal the true magic behind science.
Learn about the Junior Ranger program and earn your badge by taking the pledge with Ranger Jacque! Designed for kids, and everyone who is a kid at heart, the Junior Ranger program provides a free activity booklet to all who want to learn more about nature and the park! Adults too! Complete at least two...
Join a ranger for a 15 minute talk at the Coronado National Memorial Visitor Center and learn about a variety of park topics including the Coronado Expedition, wildlife, and more! Ask a ranger at the visitor center desk for the topic of the day. Free with Park Fee
This 90-minute tour provides a unique opportunity to learn how innovative engineering and optical technology melds with manufacturing techniques to produce the largest and most advanced giant (8.4 meters /...
The saguaro celebrates events and faces challenges throughout its life. A biologist explains how it provides shelter and substance for wildlife; when it flowers; its growth patterns; and how it...
Join us for a one-hour STEAM activity. Activities will include gardening, bird identification, paper airplanes, bubbles, doodle-bots, and geodes. Ages 7+
Join an Interpretive Ranger in the theater to learn about the 1000-year-old petroglyphs, a 1930’s CCC project, and the historic Gould Mine site developed in 1906. Wheelchair accessible. Free with Park Fee
Come join in on a new STEM project each week for grades 6th - 12th at the Vista Grande Library! Projects include building a solar oven to making paper circuit...
Join our AmeriCorps VISTA member Kate for a beginner coding program! Participants will choose a book to read and create an animation of the book as the final project. All supplies provided by Camp Verde Community Library. This programs requires registration.
Code Club is a weekly time when kids can come and learn how to make websites, video games, and apps. It’s informal, fun, and very interactive. Come have fun, make friends, and build cool stuff with us! No coding experience required!
This show explains the science and technology we will conquer for a successful moonbase in the coming decades. Follow our story filled with awe, danger, trepidation and share the wonder...
Explore the places we are visiting in our Summer Reading adventures. We will make musical instruments and make some noise! Program is "drop-in" style, no registration is required. Ages 5...
This is not about the University of Arizona’s teams nor is it about your mom’s house cat! Join an Interpretive Ranger in the theater to learn about the four types of wild cats that roam not only Arizona’s mountains and deserts, but in some cases – our cities and towns! Wheelchair accessible Free...
Enhance your afternoon with quick insights into the geologic story of Grand Canyon at our "Geo Glimpse" ranger program - presented daily at 3 pm. Meet in front of Yavapai Geology Museum. Learn how this immense canyon formed and the science behind the landscape. The program is 30 minutes long and is accessible. Grand Canyon is one-mile deep, up...
Take a relaxing look at the night sky as one of our skilled "Console Captains" gives you a guided tour of the stars, planets, constellations and current events happening in...
Hummingbird banding sessions at Casa de San Pedro Bed & Breakfast are open to members of SABO and guests of the B&B at no charge, though donations are appreciated. Only two (2) parking spaces are available for visitors who are not guests of Casa de San Pedro B&B, and registration is required. Casa de San...
Discover pivotal stories of survival, perseverance, and developing threats centered on Grand Canyon’s diverse cultural and natural resources. Meet the ranger at 4:30 pm at the Village Amphitheater, in the...
One of the world’s largest fringing coral reefs, Ningaloo Reef is visible from space and stretches along the northwest coast of Western Australia. For this event, we will travel in a two-person submarine, Odyssea, on an underwater adventure. Rich in coral, we will experience this highway for the planet’s largest and smallest fish, including the...
Celebrate Pride with the whole family at Reid Park Zoo’s first ever Family Pride Night! Show your colors this Pride month with Reid Park Zoo! Bring the whole family out for games, live music, animal viewing, and more. Enjoy live music by the Vinyl Grooves as they perform your favorite Brit Invasion and American Rock hits...
Join Ranger Eric on a hike to look for nocturnal wildlife, including scorpions! Enjoy this evening hike as you look for and learn about the nocturnal critters of the Sonoran Desert with Ranger Eric! Wildlife may include scorpions, spiders, insects, owls, nightjars, reptiles, and mammals. Hiking will be an easy grade on occasionally sandy or...
Meet at McKee Amphitheater — 8 pm Engage in a 45-minute Ranger led interview with youth from the Yavapai and Apache Nations as they reflect on their experience rafting the...
Drop in at any time to view the starry skies of your Urban Night Sky Park with volunteers from the Tucson Amateur Astronomers Association. Please bring a flashlight. Accessible program....
Join rangers and astronomers behind Grand Canyon Visitor Center for an evening of telescope viewing and laser-guided constellation talks under one the darkest night skies in the United States! Time: Telescopes available anytime between 9 pm and 11 pm. Constellation talk begins at 9:30 pm. Location: South Rim - Grand Canyon Visitor Center Theater (follow red rope lights)...