We’re highlighting trees during Earth Week, but cultivating, caring for, and sharing our love for trees is a year-round passion at Red Butte Garden.

Join your fellow dendrophiles (yes—there's a word for us!) at Red Butte Garden and Arboretum during Earth Week, April 22-26, to learn about and celebrate these pillars of our community.

Through self-guided activities, explore and discover how trees help both human and plant communities thrive, from improving air quality to conserving water. Learn how to help your own trees live longer, happier lives.

By cultivating so many unique trees over its nearly forty-year history, Red Butte Garden 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.

The University of Utah’s campus landscape is a State Arboretum, and as part of it, Red Butte Garden is one of the best places in the Salt Lake Valley to explore the beauty, variety, and life-giving benefits of trees. The Garden 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. See our Plant Collections page for more information.

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.