Programs for schools at the Park include living history presentations, tours, self-guided activities, the Junior Ranger Photo Hunt, and river walks and activities. The nearby Santa Cruz River is a great place to introduce your students to a desert riparian ecosystem. Opportunities exist for tours, river activities, and research.
At local schools (Santa Cruz County and Green Valley area), Rangers and Volunteers offer a Padre Kino Puppet Show, a slide show about "The Santa Cruz River its People, and Environment," and the "Kino-O'odham Encounter" - a classroom play in which students, in costume, reenact the historic meeting between Father Kino and the O'odham Indians in 1691.
Did You Know?
It is estimated that since 1917 over 20 million dollars have been spent on the preservation and upkeep of Tumacácori's ruins.