Gardens & More To Visit
Listing of New Hampshire Public Gardens and Arboreta by Town
Some are free and others have an entrance fee. If you have any additions for my list, please let me know and I'll add them!
Auburn - Massabesic Audubon Center
Bristol - Pasquaney Garden Club's Butterfly Garden
Canterbury - Canterbury Shaker Village
Concord - Kimball-Jenkins Estate
Concord - Mill Brook Gallery (free)
Cornish - Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Dover - The Joe B. Parks Riverwalk Public Gardens
Durham - New England Ecological Garden (at UNH)
Enfield - Enfield Shaker Museum
Exeter - Riverwoods Arboretum
Fitzwilliam - Rhododendron State Park
Franklin - Tarbin Gardens
Greenland - Weeks Brick House
Hampton - Fuller Gardens
Hanover - Dartmouth University Life Sciences Greenhouse (free)
Holderness - Kirkwood Gardens (free), part of Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
Lee - Bedrock Gardens
Lyman - Hobbs Fern Sanctuary
Manchester - Southern New Hampshire University Arboretum
Mason - Pickity Place
New Ipswich - Barrett House
New Ipswich - NH Daylily
New London - Tracy Memorial Library Garden
Newbury - The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens
North Hampton - Fuller Gardens
Plainfield - Plainfield Wildflower Sanctuary
Portsmouth - Moffatt Ladd House
Portsmouth - Prescott Park
Portsmouth - Rundlet-May House
Portsmouth - Strawbery Banke
Portsmouth - Urban Forestry Center
Ringe - Cathedral of the Pines
Salem, NH - Salem Botanical Gardens
Walpole - Distant Hill Gardens
Wentworth - Shin Boku Nursery
White Island (Isle of Shoals) - Celia Thaxter's Island Garden
Wilton: House by the Side of the Road
New Hampshire has a number of STATE PARKS as well for you to enjoy.
NH Audubon has 39 wildlife sanctuaries in the state that are open to the public and FREE OF CHARGE.
Neighboring States: Maine
Boothbay: Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Kennebunkport: St. Anthony's Franciscan Monastery
Kennebunkport: Snug Harbor Farm
Ogunquit: Ogunquit Museum of American Art Sculpture Park Gardens
Neighboring States: Massachusetts
Andover: Stevens-Coolidge House & Gardens
Boston: Boston Public Garden (the first public botanical garden in America!)
Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Photographed at top of page)
Boylston: Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Falmouth: Highfield Hall and Gardens
Framingham: New England Wildflower Society (Garden in the Woods)
Milton: Wakefield Estate
Northampton: Botanic Garden of Smith College
Sandwich: Heritage Museums and Gardens
Stockbridge: Berkshire Botanical Garden
Wellesley: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, The Gardens at Elm Bank
Wellesley: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, The Gardens at Elm Bank
West Tisbury: Polly Hill Arboretum
Neighboring States: Vermont
Manchester: Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home
Strafford: The Morrill Homestead Gardens
Woodstock: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Above: The Fells, Newbury NH
Below: Snug Harbor Farm, Kennebunkport, ME and NH Audubon McLane Center Pollinator Demonstration Garden
This list was last updated by Sienna April 2021. Please excuse any errors or omissions and feel free to send me any suggestions of other places to include here.
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