The Regional Parks Botanic Garden is a naturally beautiful and tranquil living museum of California native plants. Located within Tilden Regional Park in the hills above Berkeley, California, this enchanting 10-acre garden is a sanctuary for many of the state's rare and endangered plants and a place for visitors to wander among trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses from plant communities throughout the state. The Botanic Garden is welcoming to all visitors from our entire Bay Area community and travelers to the Bay Area.

Canyon Section and Rainforest Trail Closed

The Canyon section between the small bridge by Wildcat Creek and the larger upper bridge by the Glasshouse and the new Rainforest trail below the Sequoia building are currently closed.

During the recent storm (4/20-21) the Botanic Garden sustained significant damage in the Canyon section of the Garden. A very large trunk of a double-trunked coast live oak tree snapped off at the base, and fell into a nearby multi-trunked bay tree. The second trunk of the double-trunked oak is currently still standing, but is no longer stable and it now endangers all of the paths and plantings in that very area due to its immense size and positioning on the slope at the edge of the north side of the Franciscan section. The additional three standing trunks of the bay tree are also now highly unstable (particularly the largest one) and could also snap off at any time. Due to their sizes and positions, a large part of the “beginning” part of the Canyon section (including the two middle paths that lead deeper into the Canyon) is unsafe for ALL visitors.

Botanic Garden staff are hard at work getting this situation taken care of, so please respect these closures that have been made for your safety.

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