Agua Caliente Park

The below calendar is a list of events at Agua Caliente Park.

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  • Agua Caliente Park Stargazing

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    What: Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) volunteers provide an introduction to the night sky and set up telescopes for celestial viewing. They will have several telescopes set up in the bus lanes at the north end of the main parking lot. Feel free to bring your lawn chair. Park gate may close before event end

  • Friends of Agua Caliente Park Board Meeting

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    The Friends of Agua Caliente will conduct a Board Meeting from 10 - 11:30 am in the Rose Cottage (Pink Building near the main pond) at Agua Caliente Park. The Meeting is open to all members, supporters, and the general public. Masks are required. For additional information or topics that will be addressed, email the

  • Agua Caliente Park Stargazing

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    What: Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) volunteers provide an introduction to the night sky and set up telescopes for celestial viewing. They will have several telescopes set up in the bus lanes at the north end of the main parking lot. Feel free to bring your lawn chair. Park gate may close before event end

  • Cultural History of the Tucson Basin

    Pima County is blessed with a rich and varied record of human settlement over the last 11,000 years representing ancestral Native Americans, Spanish Colonial, Mexican-American, and many others in our history. Ian Milliken, Pima County’s Cultural Resources Manager, will present on the culture history of the Tucson Basin/Southern Arizona showcasing the County’s unique and deep

  • The Antiquity of Irrigation in the Southwest

    Before 1500 CE, Native American cultures took advantage of southern Arizona’s long growing season and tackled its challenge of limited precipitation by developing the earliest and most extensive irrigation works in all of North America. Agriculture was introduced to Arizona more than 4,000 years before present, and irrigation systems were developed in our state at

  • Agua Caliente Park Stargazing

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    What: Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) volunteers provide an introduction to the night sky and set up telescopes for celestial viewing. They will have several telescopes set up in the bus lanes at the north end of the main parking lot. Feel free to bring your lawn chair. Park gate may close before event end

  • FOAC Annual Meeting

    The Annual Meeting of the Friends of Agua Caliente Board and members will take place on Monday January 24th at 7 PM on Zoom. To participate, please email infofriendsofaguacaliente.org for Zoom information.

  • Arizona from Conquistadores to the Railroad

    Francisco Vasquez de Coronado crossed Arizona in 1542 looking for the Seven Cities of Gold, followed by missionaries, cattle ranchers, then 49ers headed for the California Gold Rush. Historian Jim Turner shares these and other stories from Southern Arizona, including prospector Ed Schieffelin and his first silver claim in Tombstone in 1878.  Information about how

  • Tasting History: The Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project and Mission Garden

    During the 17th and early 18th centuries, Jesuit missionaries such as Father Eusebio Francisco Kino and later Franciscans introduced European fruit trees to New Spain, now the United States–Mexico borderlands. Jesús M. García, Research Associate, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, discusses the importance of pomegranates, figs, quinces, and olives, which were a significant part of the mission

  • The Pershing’s Chinese, Asylum Seekers Amid Chinese Exclusion

    In 1917, Gen. John J. Pershing brought 527 Chinese refugees from Mexico. These men had attached themselves to the punitive expedition conducted by Gen. Pershing in pursuit of the Mexican revolutionary leader Francisco “Pancho” Villa from 1916 to 1917. When Pershing withdrew, aware that the lives of the Chinese who had served his troops were

  • Birds, Lizards, and Bighorns: The Hohokam and their Animal Icons

    The Hohokam had an intricate relationship with animals of the Sonoran Desert that is revealed in their artwork. Their realistic, playful, and abstract depictions of creatures on pottery, carved stone, shell, and rock art, show not only their close observations to the natural world, but how they viewed that world in a cosmological context. Research

  • Geology of the Rincon Mountains

    Learn about the geologic history of the Rincon Mountains from George Davis, Regents Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Arizona. George ‘retired’ in 2020, 50 years after arriving at UArizona. As a field-oriented structural geologist, he has seen a lot of rocks in southern Arizona. Information about how to access the Zoom session will be emailed

  • Agua Caliente Park Stargazing

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    What: Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) volunteers provide an introduction to the night sky and set up telescopes for celestial viewing. They will have several telescopes set up in the bus lanes at the north end of the main parking lot. Feel free to bring your lawn chair. Park gate may close before event end

  • Friends of Agua Caliente Park Board Meeting

    The Friends of Agua Caliente Park Board Meeting will be held via Zoom at 7 pm. For additional information or to receive the Zoom link, email infofriendsofaguacaliente.org.

  • Bridge & Main Pond Dedication Ceremony

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    Join Pima County Natural Resources Parks and Recreation (NRPR) and the Friends of Agua Caliente (FOAC) for a Bridge and Main Pond Restoration Dedication Ceremony. There will be short talks by residents of the community, music by the Tanque Verde High School Jazz Band, tours of the Park and Ranch House, Birding activities, and more.

  • Friends of Agua Caliente Board Meeting

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    The Friends of Agua Caliente Board meeting will meet at 10 AM Saturday May 21, 2022 in the Rose Cottage at Agua Caliente Park. This meeting is open to the public.

  • Agua Caliente Park Stargazing

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    What: Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) volunteers provide an introduction to the night sky and set up telescopes for celestial viewing. They will have several telescopes set up in the bus lanes at the north end of the main parking lot. Feel free to bring your lawn chair. Park gate may close before event end

  • FOAC Board Meeting

    The next FOAC Board Meeting will be held on Zoom September 19, 2022 at 7 PM on Zoom. If you want to attend, please email us at infofriendsofaguacalieente.org  for the zoom link.

  • Park Closed due to Fire

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    Agua Caliente Park will be CLOSED for at least 30 days due to a Lightning Strike fire to several palm trees. No structures were damaged. Pima County Natural Resources parks and Recreation (NRPR) has closed the park during the damage assessment and debris cleanup. They anticipate this taking at least 30 days. Stay tuned to

  • Cienega Creek Natural Preserve Stargazing

    Agua Caliente Park 12325 E Roger Rd, Tucson, AZ, United States

    MOVED TO CIENEGA CREEK NATURAL PRESERVE. 16000 E MARSH STATION ROAD. What: Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association (TAAA) volunteers provide an introduction to the night sky and set up telescopes for celestial viewing. They will have several telescopes set up in the bus lanes at the north end of the main parking lot. Feel free to

Main Pond

Current Ranch House Art Gallery (LINK)