Garden Awards
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden ranks among the best botanical gardens in North America and has received numerous awards including:
- Winner! “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today (2023)
- Recognized as one of the 12 Best Botanical Gardens Across the United States (Fodors, 2022).
- Voted the second “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today (2022).
- Voted the second “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today. (2021)
- Named one of the country’s Top 10 Most Gorgeous Botanical Gardens by House Beautiful. (2021)
- Multi-year winner (including 2021) of the Traveler’s Choice Award from Tripadvisor.
- Voted the fourth “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today. (2020)
- Voted the second “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today. (2019)
- Voted the fourth “Best Botanical Garden” in the nation by USA Today. (2019)
- Voted one of the 8 most Instagram-worthy gardens in the U.S by Better Homes & Gardens (2019)
- Voted the fourth “Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights” by USA Today. (2018)
- Voted the fourth “Most Beautiful Botanical Garden in the U.S.” by Condé Nast Traveler. (2017)
- Voted the fourth “Best Botanical Garden” in the nation by USA Today. (2016)
- One of the “top botanical gardens in the U.S. worth traveling for” by TripAdvisor’s FlipKey site. (2016)
- Voted the Second Best Public Garden in North America in the USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards (2014).
- Selected as a “Top 10 North American Gardens Worth Travelling For” by the Canadian Garden Tourism Council (2013)
- Recognized by the Travel Channel as one of the 12 “Best Botanical Gardens in the U.S.” (2013)
- Received the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Medal, the Nation’s Highest Honor for Museum and Library Service. (2011)
What makes our Garden so great?
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden features year-round beauty on a historic property with more than 50 acres of spectacular gardens, dining and shopping. A 63-foot classical domed Conservatory is the only one of its kind in the mid-Atlantic. Visitors can enjoy 15 themed gardens including a Children’s Garden, Rose Garden, Healing Garden, Fountain Garden, Asian Valley, Native Plant Garden and an accessible-to-all treehouse. Favorite annual events at the Garden include special exhibitions, A Million Blooms, the CarMax Free Fourth of July, Genworth Free Community Day, Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights and more. 