Club Day at De Anza College is usually held on the Thursday of the third week of fall, winter and spring quarters, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. This is info for when it is held in the Sunken Gardens.
(Spring quarter 2026 Club Day will be Thursday, April 23, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
Live performances by students . . . free refreshments . . . Clubs set up tables in the Sunken Garden,
which is north of the Library and the Main Quad biggest fountain on the campus.
In the map below it is the blue rectangle with a gray edge:
Clubs usually set up their tables in the area on this map with yellow stripes:
You can usually find the Outdoor Club just down the stairs from
the Hinson Campus Center Outdoor Patio on the right in the photo above. BUT for spring 2026, we were told to set up my the big fountain.
You will almost always find the Outdoor Club by looking for the table with a kayak on it.
It is one of the kayaks we use for October and May beginner’s or experienced kayaking lesson and practice paddling 16 minutes from the campus. The club provides all the kayaks and equipment. The cost with a lesson and practice paddling is lower than just renting a kayak elsewhere.
(These are not the kind of kayaks you have your legs fully inside of, they are more like a different shape of open canoe, so no specialized training is needed to use them.)
and these kayaks are used for the between-summer-and-fall-quarter (your choice of part or most of August) adventure to Grand Teton National Park.
You make your choice of camp, cabin or hotel room
Restaurant, cookout, picnic
The main club activity besides sightseeing is kayaking & canoeing for beginners or experienced. (We will teach you how to if you do not know how.)
You choose from among optional activities, such as hikes (with or without a Ranger Naturalist), backpacking, bike riding (with your bike that you bring or one that you rent), horseback riding with a professional trail guide, white water rafting, stargazing, swimming, go to a rodeo, concert or museum in town.
We also do a winter quarter weekend trip to Yosemite National Park each year.
You have a number of choices of where you stay overnight on the Yosemite trip and who you share a campsite with / have as a roommate
(or you could come up just for the day Saturday – but people rarely do). Some people come up the day before the official trip and stay the night after.
You can stay in the campground,
a heated-or-not wood floored canvas roofed/sided tent cabin,
wood walled cabin with a bathroom or with a bathroom nearby
or a hotel room with a bathroom
or a very deluxe hotel room
