Please review our hiker info page to familiarize yourself with hiker safety rules and our hike ratings so that you can select hikes that meet your level of fitness. Unless specified otherwise in the activity descriptions below, hikes have a 15 person limit, and they begin in the ABDNHA parking lot.

Talk & Walk: Plants of Anza-Borrego

ABDNHA Parking Lot 652 Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs

Leader: Don Rideout, Coordinator, Desert Botany Club

Short Lecture and Field Trip (Easy walk, okay for all vehicles)

An offering of the new Botany Club, these walks will focus on the plants of Anza-Borrego Desert, with locations varying depending on where we find the most interesting plants. Our pace will be generally slow, allowing plenty of time for plant identification, questions, discussion, and photography.  All levels of knowledge are welcome, including children. Meet at ABDNHA; carpool as best we can, as we head to the field trip site. No Charge. Space is limited. Register at the Nature Center or call 760-767-3098.

Lecture: Plant Sex – Everything You Didn’t Know to Ask about Sex in the Desert

ABDNHA Library 652 Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs

Speaker: Botanist Kate Harper
Is there such a thing as ADULT botany?  Botanist Kate Harper says there is as she explains in her presentation how human sex and plant sex have surprising comparisons – and even more surprising differences! Come experience a racy romp through the world of plant sex. An extensive handout is included. In the ABDNHA Library. GP $12, M $10, V $8. You can register online or at the Nature Center, 760-767-3098.

Register here for the program.

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