Tours usually offered by our docents from October through April, are also available here year-round as printed booklets available for loan, or as portable document format (PDF) files, that you can print yourself and keep. Both of these analog options complement the mobile tours available - providing many tour modalities for those wanted to take the tours at their own pace.
PDF Links to Printable Tours
Arboretum History Tour PDF
Old Main New Directions in Desert Landscaping Tour PDF
Sonoran Native Plants Tour PDF
Medicinal Plants Tour PDF
Trees Around the World Tour PDF
Edible Landscapes Tour PDF
Tours Especially For Students
Student interns with the arboretum envisioned tours that speak to them and add dimension to our conventional understanding of the role trees play in the world and the rich ways they support campus life. The result of their research and creativity are presented here as self-guided tours.
Tour Description:
This tour is meant to teach us about the reproductive strategies and sexual diversity of trees. Trees have existed for hundreds of millions of years. Compared to us, trees have been spreading their seed on Earth for at least 60 times longer than humans have existed. With that in mind, it isn’t surprising that in all that spare time, they’ve developed reproductive and sexual habits that are wildly more complex than most of us realize! In this tour, we’ll explore the basic biology and intimate identities of the trees around us.
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Tour Description:
This tour was designed to promote awareness and opportunities for connection. We will visit and get to know unique and inspiring trees and consider what they can teach us about ourselves and our relationships.
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The plants of the Sonoran desert have a long history of human uses for food, shelter, medicine, art and religious practice. This tour features plants growing in the historic University of Arizona Joseph Wood Krutch Garden and explores their use for food, medicine, material and ritual. This purpose of this tour is to promote appreciation for the practical insights of the traditional cultures of the Sonoran desert within which native trees and plants were central to community life. In so doing, we aim to preserve this wisdom and encourage respect and greater consideration for the natural world in modern communities by those who live or will live here in future generations.
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This tour aims to increase appreciation for the ways plants and people are interdependent and to deepen understanding of the specific ecosystem services trees provide which sustain both the earth and its people.
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