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  •  The Great Around-the-USA Adventure

    California: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

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    The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is located up in the foothills overlooking Santa Barbara. It features California native plant displays in landscaped settings, and includes several different trails and includes a 19th century mission dam and aqueduct system.
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    As one enters the Garden, the first vista is of this field of wild flowers with the mountains in the distance.

    Date of visit: 14 Apr 2008

     
     Trails such as this meander through the Garden. Most are fairly easy, but there are also a couple of moderately-rated walks for the more ambitious. Work on the Garden was begun in the late 1920's.  sbbg15
    sbbg01  A cactus in bloom. 
     A California poppy.  sbbg05
     sbbg07  This dam, built in 1806, was the source of water for the Mission Santa Barbara.
     A replica of part of the aqueduct system that carried water down to the mission. sbbg08 
     sbbg13  Just one of many varied plants throughout the Garden.