Guided Public Tours and Hikes
In addition to our regular Saturday tours of the Display Gardens and monthly tours of Coker Arboretum (see sidebar), we offer occasional guided hikes and walks to other special natural areas or campus locales. These hikes and tours are listed below. (If you would like to arrange for a special private tour of the Botanical Garden Grounds, Coker Arboretum, or Battle Park for your group, please see the Scheduling Tours page.)
Unless otherwise indicated, the following tours/hikes require pre-registration and cost a small fee. Please call 919-962-0522 to register.
Tours and hikes are listed below in date order.
Winter Owl Prowls (with Piedmont Wildlife Center)
Date: Friday, December 4 and 11
Time: 7 - 9 pm
Guides: Staff of the Piedmont Wildlife Center
Local owls are back in the neighborhood, looking for their mates and getting their nests ready for a new family. Join us on a nighttime expedition to listen and look for signs of screech, barred, and great horned owls. Christopher the barred owl and Houdini the screech owl (rescued by Piedmont Wildlife Center [PWC]), will stop by for a visit to give you an up-close and personal view of some live owls. You'll learn why owls are so important to the environment and what you can do to help protect them. We will try several owl calls to see if we can get any local owls to come check us out and call back. Fee: $15 ($10 Garden and PWC members). You must call PWC to register for an owl prowl: 919-489-0900.
A Winter Walk in the Footsteps of William Lanier Hunt
Date: Saturday, December 5
Time: 2 - 4 pm
Guide: Ken Moore, NCBG emeritus assistant director
Ken Moore is your guide for this tour of the UNC Campus's botanical heritage
William L. Hunt—horticulturist, garden designer, writer, and lecturer—educated and entertained audiences throughout the South. Beginning in his student days at UNC in the mid-1920s, Bill praised the landscapes and plants of the UNC Campus, describing them frequently in his newspaper garden columns. In 1990, he initiated a winter walking tour of the campus to share his enthusiasm—particularly for the fine collection of holly species and cultivars and other broadleaf evergreens for which the South is renowned. Ken Moore, retired from a long career at the Garden and now writing "Flora" columns for The Carrboro Citizen, honors Hunt's love of the campus landscape and its heritage by tracing his footsteps and stopping to recall stories of plants and people from the past. Fee: $10 ($5 Garden members & UNC students). Sign up early for this fun, annual event!
Return to the EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS page to find other public programs, such as Lectures, Classes and Workshops, Art in the Garden.
Last updated by Laura Cotterman on November 12, 2009 at 12:30:54 pm.
