Arbor Day Celebration at Red Butte Garden & Arboretum

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 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.

• Free Tree Giveaways

• Tree Scavenger Hunt

• Exploration Stops

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.

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.

Free admission all day thanks to Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts, and Parks (ZAP).