If you think of San Francisco, surely the first thing that comes to mind is its famous steep streets that even gave name to a series of the 80s, by the way, one of the ones that most marked my childhood. You will also get the image of the no less famous tram circulating on those streets. What surely does not cross your mind is that in San Francisco is the largest Botanical Garden in the west coast of the United States.
Officially called San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, It has almost 23 hectares in which there are more than 7,500 species and is in the Golden gate park of the American city. It was founded in 1890 although its construction could not be carried out due to lack of funds until 1926, when Helene Strybing sponsored it and named it after him.
If you like enjoying nature in the city, put on your tennis shoes because you will take a few walks and, above all, you will enjoy the beautiful thing spending a whole day seeing the different sections in which the San Francisco Botanical Garden. In the area of the so-called "Mediterranean Regions", you can see species of many origins, such as Chile, South Africa, the Mediterranean or some California natives.
In the "Temperate Climates" area, you have several gardens with Asian or Australian plants. In the "Mountains of the tropics" you will see two forests, the Foggy forest with species from Central America and the one of the same name but with origin in Southeast Asia. In the other area you will find special species that are difficult to find elsewhere, with almost 10 gardens where all of them are distributed. All species can be preserved with guarantees thanks to the Mediterranean climate of the area, but since they do not have greenhouses there are many plants that they cannot have since they would not last.
If you want to visit it you will pay $ 7 and the minors $ 5 or $ 2, depending on how old they are. If you are traveling as a family, you can enter with another adult and one or more children for just $ 15, so it makes up for a lot and the children will learn a lot more than enjoying seeing a lot of animals. The San Francisco residents they never pay and others have free access on the second Tuesday of each month, on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. It is open every day from 9 am to 6 pm between April and October and from 10 am to 5 pm between November and March. Of course not everything is looking, they have a store where you can buy many of the plants that you will have seen all day. Definitely a fantastic attraction that should become a must if you are traveling to San Francisco.
Visit San Francisco Botanical Garden! (May 2024)
- California, San Francisco
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