Location: Cleveland
Top Things to do in Cleveland
What to do and see in Cleveland, Ohio (OH): The Best Gardens
Whether rocking out to music legends inside the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or viewing Monets and Picassos at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland is a city that mixes equal parts grit and sophistication. Nosh award-winning food in historic buildings, tip back some craft beers amid a Lake Erie beach party or cheer on a championship team with a hardball of locally distilled spirits. All in Cleveland.
Restaurants in Cleveland
1. Cleveland Botanical Garden
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 809 reviews
Reviewed By TheRealKhalilah
If you have the time and enjoy botanical gardens, the CBG is a gem. Also visit the culturally themed gardens.
2. Rockefeller Park & Greenhouse
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 87 reviews
Reviewed By LaurelF125 - Cleveland, United States
This is a FABULOUS place -- kept up amazing well, despite a location in some of the worst inner city slums. It's worth putting on your big girl pants, and going to visit anyways. The gardens are amazing and beautiful, the grounds lovely -- exotic cactuses and tropical plants in an old fashioned greenhouse heated with clanking steam heat! When I utterly despair in mid-winter and the days are dark at 4:45PM and you think spring will NEVER COME (a common feeling in Northeast Ohio....)....NOTHING lifts your morale like a trip to the City Greenhouse. WHY OH WHY do they not promote or publicize this amazing treasure more? Most people I know -- lifelong residents! -- have literally no idea it is here (and FREE!) and just a mile down the road from University Circle! In the dead of winter I have pressed my cold aching body against those delicious warm radiators in the tropical room....and sat for hours breathing in the intoxicating oxygen in the cactus room...drying out my miserable Cleveland sinuses. There is just nothing better here in town -- unspoiled, pure, simple, NOT commercialized...NO GIFT SHOP! nothing to buy. No annoying guides. Just enter a paradise of gardens and flowers year round, and feel your spirit rejuvenate. An absolute must for visitors and locals alike!
3. Italian Cultural Garden
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 23 reviews
4. Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 52 reviews
Reviewed By egslade - Portsmouth, United States
My husband is from Cleveland and I've been visiting for 40-plus years but this was my first time visiting the 33 cultural gardens, representing the ethnicity of groups who have settled in Cleveland. We parked our car on a side street and started walking. Each garden is marked with a green sign indicating the country it represents. Some of our favorites included Hungary, Ireland, and Italy, but we didnt see them all since we got caught in the rain and had to cut our visit short. It was very quiet on a Thur morning which added to the experience; we only saw one other family. Many of the gardens are educational including busts and statues of famous citizens and plaques with history and cultural information. The hydrangeas were in full bloom and just beautiful. I would recommend downloading the map that's available online before you go. Also, there are guided tours on Saturdays which would be interesting. We loved our visit, and it's free!
5. Sarah Benedict House and Garden
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 2 reviews
