
Sweetwater Wetlands Park
Operations and Maintenance

Hours are dawn to one hour after sunset Tues-Sun, opening at 9am on Monday.

View of recharge basins (often dry) from Huckleberry bike path, with wetlands in background.

The transition from the packed-granite path to the paved path has a lip over 2” tall in some places.

The Agua Nueva Park is located across the street (or down the bike path) from Sweetwater Wetlands.

Agua Nueva Park is a reclamation pond circumnavigated with a sunny dirt path.

The 0.5-mile hike around the lake in Agua Nueva Park has benches and intermittent shade from riparian trees.

The Huckleberry Loop is a paved 2-lane bike path that intersects with the wetland hike leading N and S along the Santa Cruz River.

The Tucson Reclaimed Water Treatment Plant is the source of water for the Sweetwater Wetlands and the outlet into the Santa Cruz River.

An outlet of reclaimed water into the Santa Cruz River flowing north, as viewed from the Huckleberry bike path.

