Description

Escape the heat and explore the Garden after dark with family and friends! Discover the Garden’s five thematic trails, encounter desert creatures, and immerse yourself in the captivating nighttime ambiance with cool drinks and treats. Enjoy access to food trucks and Breezy Pops for sale. Garden will be selling s’mores and drinks and more from their pop-up bars serving non-alcoholic and adult beverages. Every Saturday evenings 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. from July 20  to Sept. 14. Included with general admission (reservations appreciated): $14.95 adults, $9.95 children, free for ages 3 and younger and free for members.

All Flashlight Nights events include the following activities:

• Book Giveaway: Browse books and take one home for free! One per guest.
• Moon Sculptures: Observe the shapes and textures of the moon, and identify a crater’s impact shape, size and impact rays. Plus, create a moon sculpture with clay to take home.
• Constellation Cups: Create constellations with a paper cup to project and view.
• Star Gazing: Discover stars, constellations, planets, moons and other astronomical objects in the night sky with telescopes.
• Mesquite Pitch Painting: Try painting using mesquite pitch paint.
• Prickly Pear pop-up: Learn about the many uses of prickly pear cactus including food for people and animals, a host plant for insects, and even cactus leather used in the fashion industry. Plus, taste a prickly pear cactus pad (nopalito).
• Magnificent Mesquites: Touch, grind and taste mesquite flour made from the seedpods of a mesquite.
• Making Tracks: Explore tracks of animals that live in the Sonoran Desert and create your own tracks using stamps and water.
• Desert Critters: Encounter snakes, tarantulas, scorpions and other desert critters general questions.
• Super Saguaro: Explore this desert icon, see and touch a saguaro skeleton, learn about how it is an important resource for various desert wildlife and how it has evolved as a plant to live in the desert. Guests will learn how saguaro fruit is harvested.