Arbor Day Celebration at Red Butte Garden & Arboretum
Free admission thanks to Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, & Parks (ZAP)
Thanks to ZAP, Red Butte Garden can offer six free admission days.
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For The Love Of Trees
Friday, April 25 | 9 am-7:30 pm | Free Admission
Do you love trees? So do we. Red Butte Garden and Arboretum is part of Utah’s arboretum, so there’s no better place to celebrate Arbor Day! Join us on Arbor Day, a free-admission day, to explore the beauty of the natural world and learn about the vital role trees play in our lives and environment. With tree-rific family-friendly activities there's plenty to inspire you to plant, nurture, and celebrate trees.
Arbor Day Events & Activities
Tree Giveaways (all day)
Take home a Bur Oak (Quercus macrocarpa) tree seedling (while supplies last) to plant in your yard! Learn more.
Tree Scavenger Hunt (all day)
Explore the Garden to find and learn more about our favorite trees.
Exploration Stops (all day)
From roots to leaves, every part of a tree has a job to do. Discover how they work together to help trees grow strong and stay healthy.
Tree Planting Demo (9:30-10am)
Watch Red Butte Garden Arborist Charlie Perington plant a new tree and share his top tips for helping young trees grow strong!
Learning Lab (9am-3pm)
Explore the world of trees with activities provided by Red Butte Garden, TreeUtah, and the Utah Community Forest Council.
What is an arboretum?
An arboretum is a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. By cultivating so many unique trees over its nearly forty-year history, Red Butte Garden and Arboretum is helping to increase the biodiversity of the valley’s tree canopy.
Do you have a favorite tree in your yard or neighborhood?
Download our Tree Journal to record observations of your favorite tree or your new seedling throughout the year.
Tree Tales at Red Butte Garden
Have you ever received a free tree seedling from an Arbor Day celebration at Red Butte Garden? Did you plant it? Did it grow? Your tree has a story to tell, and we want to hear it. Share your Tree Tales!
Cultivating, caring for, and sharing our love for trees is a year-round passion at Red Butte Garden. The University of Utah’s campus landscape is a State Arboretum, and as part of it, the Garden is one of the best places in the Salt Lake Valley to explore the beauty, variety, and life-giving benefits of trees.
Red Butte Garden and Arboretum is home to about 2,000 trees in 456 different taxa, including a historic collection of Cottam’s Oak hybrids, and a nationally recognized collection of conifers. Some not-to-miss specimens include a cool blue Giant Sequoia in the Four Seasons Garden, paperbark maples (now endangered in their native China) along the Floral Walk, a rare Korean Mountain Ash in the Fragrance Garden, and seventeen trees listed as the biggest of their type in Utah, in various locations across the Garden, including a breath-taking Sargent Cherry near the Water Pavilion.
By cultivating so many unique trees over its forty-year history, Red Butte Garden, as a part of the University of Utah, is helping to increase the biodiversity of the valley’s tree canopy. Increasing biodiversity helps make the community more resilient to climate change and other ecosystem stressors.
Por amor a los árboles.
Celebración del Día del Árbol en Red Butte Garden 2025
Viernes, 25 de abril de 9 a. m. a 7:30 p. m. | Entrada gratuita
¿Le encantan los árboles? A nosotros también. El Red Butte Garden es parte del arboreto de Utah y el mejor lugar para celebrar el Día del Árbol. Acompáñenos en Día del Árbol para disfrutar un día de actividades familiares autoguiadas de entrada gratuita y descubra el papel fundamental que desempeñan los árboles no solo en nuestras vidas, sino también en la naturaleza.
¿Tiene un árbol favorito en su jardín o vecindario?
Descargue nuestro Tree Journal para registrar observaciones de su árbol favorito o de su nueva plántula durante todo el año.
¿Qué es un arboreto?
Un arboreto es un lugar donde se cultivan árboles, arbustos y plantas herbáceas con fines científicos y educativos. Al cultivar tantos árboles únicos a lo largo de sus casi cuarenta años de historia, Red Butte Garden ha ayudado a aumentar la biodiversidad de la cubierta arbórea del valle.
Árboles de regalo
Llévese a casa un árbol joven para plantar en su jardín (se entregarán hasta que se agoten).
Red Butte Garden & Arboretum is grateful to our sponsors for their generous support of our Arbor Day Celebration.
Red Butte Garden & Arboretum agradece a nuestros patrocinadores por su generoso apoyo a nuestra Celebración del Día del Árbol.
