River Run Network Creek Walk: Bike Ride- Old Main to the Santa Cruz

Two professional gamblers and a saloon owner owned the 40 acres of land where Old Main opened its doors in 1891. Imagine if you were one of the first students looking West from the second floor of this magnificent building, what did you see in the Old Pueblo? You’d see a great mesquite bosque, a gallery of cottonwoods and willows along the crystal water flowing in the Santa Cruz River.  After a century, time has passed, what would you see? And what can you imagine for the future of Tucson’s Santa Cruz River over the next one hundred years? Join Cultural Ecologist Joaquin Murrieta for an extraordinary bike ride from Old Main to the newly flowing waters of the Santa Cruz River heritage project to experience the past, present and future of the Santa Cruz Watershed and learn how you can get Tucson’s rivers flowing again.