Very nice area to check I would say at least 2 times a month. Flowers and plants keep changing the scenery and surprising with different colors. You can learn a lot and check different herbs and veggies too. There is a very cute section with mini plants/succulents arranged on square concrete. You can also find nice plants for purchase. Check on their website for what is blooming at the moment and pay them a visit. It is well worth it.

If you want a walk in the garden here is one for long or short trails. Be careful for bears and make sure you wear long sleeves and color clothing to avoid mosquitos and a bunch of bugs. You cannot enjoy the walk or taking pictures with them flying or sucking your blood.Other than that nice. There are benches for picnicking again make sure you bring something that does not attract bears.Over all a good place to visit during the spring and summer.

Amazing place for a date with my wife. We love it.

The Holiday Lights in the Garden event was beautiful. Definitely recommend it, especially when its snowy and cold.

This place is beautiful and educational in the summer. It has great displays in the winter as well! Kids love checking out everything there and seeing how it all grows. It has beautiful gardens, easy hiking and open spaces. I saw that they have catered picnics on Thursdays. We might have to check that out.

It was quite a nice walk in the woods. Its pretty small though, compared to other botanical gardens Ive been to, and most of the property is undeveloped woods. I liked the gardens I saw, but additionally Id like to see a water garden with maybe a koi pond, and maybe a water fountain. An orchid pavilion would be nice. Theres lots of room for development and improvement.

Great place to walk around. Bring bug spray.

Different types of flowers and plants glow in Alaska. Beautifully designed and clean.

Great place to visit during summer month!

Love this place. Love how its pretty much out in the woods, without being far out. Right off muldoon, and we loved the family friendly hike that was part of the garden

Affordable, peaceful, and beautiful. Lyles Garden in particular is a must see. Im always inspired with ideas for my own garden.

It was cool. It could use a few more exhibits but still fun. You will get bit by mosquitoes, bring spray theirs is a bit over priced. The girl at the admissions desk was nice and genuine.

Great place to spend an afternoon. Picturesque, friendly staff, and worth a visit.

Fabulous time, much closed down due to Covid, but perfect time for locals to visit . Clean and homey, welcoming fire blazing. Freshly baked cookies and sandwiches made to order. Wonderful day!

Caught the end of the event in October during a pandemic. Sure it would have been better go oven the situation.

Very pretty. Open year round. Couple long trails with a couple gardens that are themed like herbs and rock. The nature walks are unpaved mostly packed with wood chips so wear good shoes. Bug spray is good to have for spring and summer unless you like bug bites.

It is the nicest it has been for a long time

This is a charming sanctuary in the woods. The staff were great and even provided a complimentary scooter for a member of our party.

Great place to spend a morning. Lots of plants and flowers. Great folks. No food so bring your own snacks

Such beautiful flowers! A very relaxing garden.

Very clean and so many beautiful colors of flowers. Great place to bring out of town guests!

A perfect place to un-wind and very wheelchair friendly. The trail is paved, getting to some of the flower arrangements was harder, for wheelchairs, I do recommend an attendant. Well worth a visit!!!

The flowers this time of year are gorgeous, and its warm enough the only reason youd wear a coat is to keep the bugs off. Great for a romantic or peace finding stroll!

Small but beautiful garden. Lovingly maintained. A gem!

These gardens are really beautiful. The staff members are great. I strongly recommend!

A quiet and peaceful place with beautifully laid out themed gardens.

Great place to visit.

It was Not decorated very well for Halloween. Wire ghosts and scarecrow. Uneventful

For $12 it was pretty cool. There were a few flowers Id never seen. And the size of the leaves on the Shieldleaf Rodgersia were enormous.

Ive come here for the Beer in the Garden event and for the Valentines Evening event and both have been great. The Valentines day event (most recent) is what Ill talk about. I found the event to be very romantic with a walk through the garden all lit up with hearts and lights. Theres even an area for food and wine. It was a blast and my wife loved it. We went for a little over an hour and even had an area for smores. The great thing about this is that its not just for couples, but for families. Children loved to see the lights and can partake in the smores. Would definitely come back again.

A great, relaxing journey through the garden. Plants are well marked, but with subdued labeling so its not distracting. Easy walking along the pathways.

Really great! My trip was super educational.

This is a hidden gem with appeal for year around outdoor enjoyment. Spring and summer is popular but I was there at +6 degrees at night in early January 2020️ It was a wonderland and serene!

Mixture of mild wilderness and horticulture. Outside fenceline is dog walk. Good to see at least once after June.

Awesome for wheelchair accessible, friendly staff, and clean restrooms!

This place is really great. New flowers and plants to see each time you go. The staff is knowledgeable and friendly. There are a lots of variety to enjoy.

Nice relaxing place.

Even if it was not any flowers due to the winter. It was still beautiful to walk thru the garden. Also they had sleds and scooters you could ride. The bathrooms were clean and very warm.

Good pleace.

Beautiful native flora. Very helpful staff.

Have been to the holiday lights the past 2 years. Great time, good to take a toddler for a walk.They had a live ukele bad and hot drinks the night I went in 2019.Believe it was under $10 per person. It took about 20 minutes to make one loop with a toddler.Their greenhouse is heated if you need to warm up on a cold day.

Beautiful gardens!

Peaceful, beautiful garden. Great staff.

Beautifully maintained and curated. Easy paved path. Gorgeous peonies (in July at least).

Always beautiful, peaceful, and ever changing.

Unfortunately I came before the season and gave a $5 recommended donation.  Though most of the flowers had yet to be planted (many growing in a greenhouse), the rock garden had come back and was well organized and labeled.  Overall cute, and spread out enough for events, activities, bonfires and lots of great viewing.  I picked up stickers and jam at the store.  If I lived in Anchorage, I would become a member.

Excellent community resource. Come see what the plants you own can do. A natural setting interspersed with stylized gardens, formal and semi-formal.They also have a shuttle that takes you from the log cabin visitors center directly to ABG. Runs on the hour starting at 9AM till 11AM breaks at Noon, then starts again at 1PM.Childrens Gardens and programs, plus a garden center with excellent plants for sale.

What a Beautiful place. Such knowledgeable staff. Thoroughly enjoyed the tour. Thank you, Stacey. Your love for what you do truly shows.

Very relaxing and gorgeous. If you are a plant lover you will really enjoy it. They have a bunch of different sections you can check out, like an Herb Garden. It blends really well with the natural greenway that surrounds it

Been waiting all winter so I can start again. Great place. Employees answer questions about the plants. Was way cool. If you have kids. Be sure and ask for the scavenger hunt pages

Easy to spend a half day!

Beautiful light displays! Wonderful designs! And excellent hot cocoa....

Great place to walk and scenery picture taking.

Beautiful night, light snow I can hear in the trees. Lights were romantic.

Beautiful gardens with great energy.

I always try and visit the local Botanical garden when traveling through a town. Im from Florida, and I really enjoyed the diversity of Alaskas Botanical garden. Beautifully kept, friendly staff.

So pretty!!! The flowers are beautiful and the staff is so nice! I love walking around and enjoying the scenery. You can also buy plants here if youd like which I think really cool!

This was a fun experience. With the christmas lights, trails the bonfire and the accordion band

12 dollars per person.My families and I had a great time here. Good for short time hiking and learning botany.

My daughter and I had a lovely stroll through their garden; it was fun to view their plantings during this transitional time and see them prepare for winter. I spoke with a gentleman prior to my walk and told him I was fascinated with poppies, and when I returned, he had gather some seeds for me - so sweet. I also loved their herb section, their white borage was fantastic as all their herbs. I recommend taking some time to enjoy this garden, I hope to someday return in spring or summer :)

Great garden with lots of plants that were blooming. Clean bathrooms and is handicap accessible. nice garden walk that takes a couple hours.

The Botanical gardens look gorgeous! However the price to get in is a little high in my opinion. $12 per person.

Small but nice garden

The Gardens are very well kept and maintained. Perfect for a quick little quiet outing within the city limits. The half mile paved trail takes you next to every sculpted they have for your viewing pleasure. The two mile nature trail is nice for a scenic walk through the woods. Port a potties are on site next to the herb garden and actual bathrooms are right past the front entrance on the side of the glass walled building. Overall not bad for a small fee.

Beautifully landscaped with additional paths, about a mile long each, outside of garden bounds. You could easily spend hours here

The gardens here are beautiful, thoughtfully planned, and lovingly maintained. Signeage and plant choices inform the visitor about native vegetation and ecosystems, while demonstrating the variety of non-native plants that can grow and thrive in a sub-Arctic climate. Several garden designs have been chosen to illustrate aspects of local history and culture.In addition, the botanical garden is an active part of the community, offering classes, day camps for kids in the summer, and social events. The botanical garden is ever-changing and growing, in terms of both the vegetation and the infrastructure. It is well worth a visit.

Alaskan summers grow amazing flowers. The gardens are nicely laid out along a wooded trail and thoughtfully curated.

Went in the winter, lol but still was fun, we made it fun

Beautifully maintained!

Really lovely. Beautiful gardens. Nice nature walk. Friendly volunteers.

This place was absolutely beautiful. It was a great way to spend an afternoon and enjoy walking around. There were many beautiful plants to look at as well as flowers to photograph. The long sleeve shirt I bought there almost 10 years ago still fits great. Id still one of my favorite shirts.

Great little walk with a bunch of stuff to see. Their gift shop is cute and the flower baskets are very reasonably priced.

Beautiful place. However, its a small place. Can do with more tagging of the plants

Was there on an Alaskan cruise in June 2018. Stopped here before our flight left that evening to go home. One of the most beautiful places Ive been to in years !!! There are plants and trees there that are absolutely stunning that are not only native to Alaska but so many other things to see. I have NEVER seen rhubarb plants so huge in my life. 2 words for this place...totally awesome !!! A must see if you have time to kill in Anchorage while waiting for your flight !!!

Loved it-- friendly staff--awesome gardens-- saw a moose on the backside nature trail. Bring bug spray you will need it!

I have been coming here since the start and been a member many of those years, it is amazing how far the garden has come. If you are from outside Alaska with a different climate, or from a large city with a very old botanical garden, it will not be what you are used to. But it is well worth a visit and a great place for a walk.

Great display of beauty. Awesome herb garden and good plants for purchase

A really wonderful garden. Not very big, but a lot of love had gone into it. Different community groups have built and maintained their part of the garden. Visit there and feel the love.

What a nice way to spend a few hours enjoying the flowers and forest.

Spent a wonderful evening at the Peony and Poppies event. Great food, beautiful flowers.

A somewhat small, but very nice garden to visit. Staff was very nice!

The kids had so much fun. Great way to start a day of adventures.

Fabulous! Lovingly maintained and just all around wonderful.

Staff was very helpful getting my wife an electric cart to get around the 11 acres of beautiful flora and landscapes, is breathtaking to say the least, the head groundskeeper answered all my questions, a great place to go and relax

Its OK place. If your itinerary is too tight and if you cannot cover this place, you will not be missing much.

Nice, well kept gardens. Friendly staff. And they even provide bug spray for free :)

Small facility packed with many varieties of plants. Our visit is towards the end of the summer, so the various gardens were not in peak bloom, but still a nice sanctuary for a quiet walk.Great to see many young people strolling and identifying flowers by name! Good family place.Gift shop disappointingly small and the potted plants available were quite leggy. Virtually no stock of seed packets.The garden seems to rely heavily on volunteers for operations.The Gardens are on the left after the turn from Tudor. The sign for the adjacent secondary school is more prominent than the sign for the Garden.

We had so much fun walking and looking at all the beautiful plants and flowers !! Just wished we saw more native plants and flowers from Alaska !! We really wanted to see the FORGET ME NOTS !!

I have been in Alaska visiting family quite a few times and no one is as friendly as the staff at the Botanical Gardens. Its right in Anchorage but you feel as if youve left the city completely. Its so peaceful, beautiful, and serene. And the staff are so helpful and educated on all species within the garden. Highly recommend!

Very nice trail, extremely easy walk around the .5 mile trail. Fair warning, admission is not free. Its worth paying to get in if youre up for a lovely walk in nature.

Good surprise! If you have some time when you are in Anchorage you must go!

So peaceful and beautiful. The colors are amazing.

Nothing special. A nice place to read a book in though.

Not too badly priced, I believe $12 for adults and £10 for students which is nice to at least see. The gardens are well maintained and are really nice to walk round, gift shop is very expensive but most all are, overall a fun visit

Lovely walk, beautiful flowers, all kinds of smells and gardens to view. At the time of this posting $12.00 for adults to get in.

So beautiful and peaceful. The flowers were at their peak. It was nice to be able to walk and enjoy the summer sun. If you enjoy species of flowers this is a must see.

Very beautiful place, very kind people. I had a person with disabilities with me, and we had no money, but they let us enjoy the gardens around the outside for as long as we wanted. Very peaceful.

Website said admission was by donation. We were a family of two adults and four children. Two ladies at the front told us $12 per each adult and $10 per each child. We turned around and left. $64 for a family to walk through a garden! Forget it!! Update your website if youre going to actually have admission prices. We can get an annual membership to the zoo for that price. Ridiculous!!

Hours are variable based on volunteer timing. Beautiful and informative garden space with small hike in natural flora. Gates surround area to keep wandering moose out.

Nicely laid out with a wide range of plants and flowers.