Tours
Explore our gardens and galleries with a knowledgeable guide. Our tours are highly interactive, engaging experiences to learn more about the plants, science, art and people that make Denver Botanic Gardens so special.
York Street Location
Prescheduled tours are offered regularly throughout the year. Select a tour theme below to view available dates and times.
Denver Botanic Gardens strives to be inclusive and accessible for all. Contact the Resource Center at info@botanicgardens.org or 720-865-3500 if an accommodation will improve your experience and we will do our best to assist. Here is more information about accessibility at the Gardens.
Here is our cancellation and refund policy.
To schedule a field trip or learn more about school programs, visit the Schools & Teachers page.
Join this tour to discover the plants behind fabled aphrodisiacs and the complicated romantic lives of tropical flora. Love in Bloom tours include a free chocolate bar.
Join Gardens staff and mathematicians from local universities for an eye-opening hour-long tour where we'll discover the mathematical patterns hidden in plain sight.
Experience a selection of Jaume Plensa’s iconic sculptures on this 90-minute stroll through the gardens and into the galleries, where unexpected connections emerge.
Stroll through the Gardens at any time of the year with this tour that highlights seasonal beauty and ever-changing landscapes.
Travel to the tropics through this tour of the Gardens’ Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory.
Join a curatorial staff member on a deep dive into the development, design and installation of current art exhibitions in the Freyer – Newman Center art galleries.
Get inspired by the current exhibitions in the Freyer – Newman Center galleries.
Explore our natural history collections with a scientist who will share the secrets and surprises of our plant, fungi and insect specimens.
Peek behind-the-scenes with a knowledgeable guide to learn more about our herbarium, fungarium and arthropod collections.
To request a private guided tour for groups of four people or more, review details and submit your request online today.
Disfrute las exposiciones de las galerías en el Centro Freyer-Newman con un guía.
A lo largo del año, pasee por los jardines en esta visita guiada de una hora que resalta la belleza de la temporada.
Come for the plants. Stay for the science, art, education, library, films, food and drinks!
Offsite Tours
On Tuesday, February 10 from 5-7 p.m., we invite you to join us at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver), where current exhibitions dive into water's profound significance as both life force and artistic inspiration.
