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Desert Botanical Garden
Fifty-five acres in Papago Park holding one of the world's most significant collections of desert plants, including a large collection of agave and cactus species.

Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- Botanical Garden
- Destination
- Phoenix
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- Not published
Ranking
- Overall score
- 46.7 / 100
- Visitation score
- No published count
- Popularity score
- 36.7
- Significance score
- 55.0
- Confidence
- medium
Visiting
- Official website
- dbg.org(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 33.4619, -111.9447
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Desert Botanical Garden is a botanical garden near Phoenix, in Maricopa County. It is one of the botanical gardens in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 46.7 out of 100, at medium confidence. No official visitor count is published for it, so the score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.
Sources
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: http://www.dbg.org/(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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