New York Botanical Garden

Website: http://www.nybg.org/
Tel: (718) 817-8700

One of the premiere botanical gardens in the United States, the New York Botanical Garden spans some 240 acres (1 km²) in the borough of The Bronx, in New York City. The Garden was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of an estate ("Belmont") formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign that was spurred by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, near London.

With 48 different gardens and plant collections, many named for famous figures or wealthy benefactors, sightseers could easily spend a day admiring the serene cascade waterfall, wetlands and a 50 acre (200,000 m²) tract of never-harvested oaks, American beeches, cherry, birch, tulip and white ash trees — some more than two centuries old.

Address: 200th St. & Kazimiroff Boulevard, Bronx, NY 10458-5126

Hours:
November - March
Tues - Sun, 10am to 4pm
Closed Mondays

Admissions:
$3 for adults
$2 for seniors and students