Set your own pace as you explore the Arboretum through a self-guided tour. Print out a trail map, listen to an audio tour, tour a specific garden, or check out a family activity from the Visitors Center.
UW Botanic Gardens Trail Map: This map can be used year round for self guided tours to some spectacular thematic gardens, taxonomic collections and loop trails with interpretive signage.
Seasonal Tour Maps: These maps highlight collections that can be explored in each month of the year.
Digital Tree Tours: Use your smartphone to guide your Arboretum tour, choosing from a variety of seasonal topics.
Pacific Connections Garden Audio Tours
Kid Friendly Adventures
Interested in a kid friendly self-guided adventure?
Check out our Family Adventure Packs and School Explorer Packs
Each season we offer a fun, all-ages scavenger hunt highlighting a different area of the Arboretum, a type of wildlife or a series of seasonal plants. Pick up clue sheets at the Washington Park Arboretum’s Graham Visitor Center between 9am and 5pm or print the clue sheet from here (see below for current scavenger hunts).
Spring
Flower Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
Summer
Summer Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
Animal Senses Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
Fall
Fall Scavenger Hunt (PDF)
Winter
Hummingbirds and Animals Senses Scavenger Hunt (PDF)