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March 2024
Snowshoe tour of Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Guided Snowshoe: Tree Trail

Snowshoe on garden trails with a naturalist from Betty Ford Alpine Gardens. This beginner guided tour turns your eyes up to the trees and their importance in the mountain ecosystem. Explore the local environment and discover alpine plant and animal adaptations. Warm up afterward in the Education Center and enjoy our winter exhibit, Rocky Mountain […]
20 Mar
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
Snowshoe tour of Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Guided Snowshoe: Tree Trail

Snowshoe on garden trails with a naturalist from Betty Ford Alpine Gardens. This beginner guided tour turns your eyes up to the trees and their importance in the mountain ecosystem. Explore the local environment and discover alpine plant and animal adaptations. Warm up afterward in the Education Center and enjoy our winter exhibit, Rocky Mountain […]
27 Mar
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
May 2024
Volunteer tending plants - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Volunteer Gardening

Join us in the Gardens for an informal work session. Volunteers keep the Gardens blooming and looking their best all season long and help maintain a world class, carefully curated plant collection. Instruction, tools and gloves are provided. Bring water, hat and comfortable work clothes. Meet at the Volunteer Tool Shed (northeast upper entrance of […]
09 May
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Volunteer tending plants - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Volunteer Gardening

Join us in the Gardens for an informal work session. Volunteers keep the Gardens blooming and looking their best all season long and help maintain a world class, carefully curated plant collection. Instruction, tools and gloves are provided. Bring water, hat and comfortable work clothes. Meet at the Volunteer Tool Shed (northeast upper entrance of […]
13 May
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Volunteer tending plants - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Volunteer Gardening

Join us in the Gardens for an informal work session. Volunteers keep the Gardens blooming and looking their best all season long and help maintain a world class, carefully curated plant collection. Instruction, tools and gloves are provided. Bring water, hat and comfortable work clothes. Meet at the Volunteer Tool Shed (northeast upper entrance of […]
16 May
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Volunteer tending plants - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Volunteer Gardening

Join us in the Gardens for an informal work session. Volunteers keep the Gardens blooming and looking their best all season long and help maintain a world class, carefully curated plant collection. Instruction, tools and gloves are provided. Bring water, hat and comfortable work clothes. Meet at the Volunteer Tool Shed (northeast upper entrance of […]
20 May
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Butterfly Release - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Annual Butterfly Launch

In its third decade, this program reveals the miracle of metamorphosis and the life cycle of butterflies to Eagle County third grade students. A day of fun activities with the release at noon. This event and learning opportunity are made possible by the Pepi & Sheika Gramshammer Foundation.
23 May
All Day
Volunteer tending plants - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Volunteer Gardening

Join us in the Gardens for an informal work session. Volunteers keep the Gardens blooming and looking their best all season long and help maintain a world class, carefully curated plant collection. Instruction, tools and gloves are provided. Bring water, hat and comfortable work clothes. Meet at the Volunteer Tool Shed (northeast upper entrance of […]
23 May
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
feathered dinosaur roaring

Dinosaurs Among Us Exhibit

The next time you dodge a pigeon on the sidewalk, watch a sparrow eat from a feeder in a backyard, or order chicken for dinner, know that you just had an encounter with a modern dinosaur. Dinosaurs never really vanished from Earth. Most did go extinct, but their evolutionary legacy lives on all around us, […]
25 May - 26 May
All Day
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
Volunteer tending plants - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Volunteer Gardening

Join us in the Gardens for an informal work session. Volunteers keep the Gardens blooming and looking their best all season long and help maintain a world class, carefully curated plant collection. Instruction, tools and gloves are provided. Bring water, hat and comfortable work clothes. Meet at the Volunteer Tool Shed (northeast upper entrance of […]
27 May
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Tours - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Guided Garden Tour

Beginning at the Education/Visitor Center, this tour winds through the beautiful gardens ending at the quaint Schoolhouse Gift Shop in the Children’s Garden. Learn about alpine flora, mountain environments, rare collections, identification, and the history of the Gardens and Vail. Sign up here to reserve your spot in advance, tours can sell out. Please allow […]
27 May
10:30 am - 11:30 am
Betty Ford Alpine Gardens
Volunteer tending plants - Betty Ford Alpine Gardens

Volunteer Gardening

Join us in the Gardens for an informal work session. Volunteers keep the Gardens blooming and looking their best all season long and help maintain a world class, carefully curated plant collection. Instruction, tools and gloves are provided. Bring water, hat and comfortable work clothes. Meet at the Volunteer Tool Shed (northeast upper entrance of […]
30 May
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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