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Escape the heat and explore Desert Botanical Garden’s Flashlight Nights after dark with family and friends. Discover the Garden’s five thematic trails, encounter desert creatures, and immerse yourself in summer nighttime ambiance. This is a spectacular experience allowing visitors a new view of one of Phoenix’s points of pride.
All Flashlight Nights events include the following activities:
- 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.
- 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.
When & How Much?
Enjoy Flashlight Nights from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. on June 29, July 20, 27, Aug. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and Sept. 7 & 14.
Flashlight Nights admission is $16.95 for all guests during this June – September event. Admission price is the same when visiting the Desert Botanical Gardens during regular summer hours, 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Please note, the Garden will be closed, July 1 – 7, for yearly maintenance.
Purchase tickets to Flashlight Nights in advance here.
It is free to park at the Desert Botanical Gardens.
- Pride Night on June 29.
- Desert Botanical Garden’s 85th Anniversary Celebration on July 27.
Also, enjoy access to food trucks for treats like s’mores and drinks from pop-up bars serving non-alcoholic and adult beverages.
What makes the views even better? FREE Admission on Desert Botanical Garden’s Community Day, every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Check it out here.
Desert Botanical Garden
1201 N Galvin Parkway
Phoenix, AZ 85008
480-941-1225
