Cantigny, A Division of the McCormick Foundation Reviews

The tour of the mansion is great and included in the admission price.

Very lovely place to visit. Great military history! Look forward to exploring the whole park.

This park is one of the best in the area and you can visit for a small parking fee. There is no other admission fee. This is military themed and has a large museum on the South end. The gardens are outstanding and there are several walking paths. This is great for the entire family.

The park is well-kept and clean and the first visit was very pleasant experience. I will be back.

Always a wonderful time at Cantigny. People are very friendly. Gardens are gorgeous and well kept

We loved this park.you only need to pay for parking and nothing more. There is acre of place for you to sit,walk,jog,run...anything that you like do. It has a beautiful and well maintained. Beautiful place for photo shoot for wedding. Fun come learning place for kids. Highly recommend this place to spend a day with your family.

Great place to learn some history and very reasonable entry at $5.00 per car. Kids really like going there to climb on the tanks. The museum has great presentations (dioramas??).

Amazingly clean facilities (including bathrooms)! Super helpful staff. Kids will stay engaged too!

I have been to Cantigny since I was little. It has always held many family memories. The First Division Museum which is comprehensive and interactive to the Tank park, to the Robert R McCormick mansion to the beautiful garden and plants that surround it. Definitely a must visit and a good place for a picnic or casual stroll

the Big Red One muesum is truly amazing the whole place is great i highly recommend going

The military museum is the real gem here, a lot more engaging than you would think

Such a special and scenic place. I only have one minor suggestion. They should redeploy the bazooka to the right side of the road.

Today I went with my family to Cantigny Park.
It's the first time I've ever been and heard about it through the Naperville Animal Shelter.
I originally thought we were going to go see the Christmas trees in the mansion. But I was thrilled to also get to tour the tanks, go into the museum, and go to the visitor center, all before the mansion.
What a wonderful place to learn about our wars.

The tours of the Mansion are either 1/2 hour, which keeps you on the main floor, or a hour long and also takes you upstairs. We did the 1/2 hour today, but I'll be back to do the hour tour.
We were in the park for 3 hours and there was so much more I could of seen and learned.

I highly recommend going here to anyone visiting the area. The park is $5.00 for parking, but everything else is free. Totally worth spending time here anytime of the year.

The mansion is very interesting and all the information.

One of the best park in Illinois. Kids enjoyed museum and war tanks.

Cantigny Park is beautiful at this time. The flowers are blooming beautifully.

Wonderful place to visit and walk and explore. Highly recommend the tour of the house, very informative. Nice little gift shop.

Great for a day out... picnic.. military museum ..formal gardens...stately mansion... extensive outdoor concert schedule....

Beautiful grounds, lots of fantastic flowers, great memorial to our soldiers, great tank park the kids can actually climb on all for $10 per car

Friday night movie in the park is so much fun!! $5 for the car and we brought our own snacks. We will go a few more times this summer. Great family fun.

Amazing experience, we love Cantigny park it's beautiful with real war tank on display and infantry museum is incredible. Best place for family outings.

It was our first time there today. It would be nice if that had signs directing you to different highlights....like museum, garden, playground, restrooms, tanks etc...

Great museum, great gardens. The house is amazing and staff very knowledgeable.

This venue has everything outdoors and historical one would want. We did our family pictures here and its beauty shined through our shots. We love the grounds that include sprawling acres of beautifully landscaped flowers and plants. We enjoyed recently renovated museum that offers insight to our past and present. They always have something going on worth seeing or doing. The also have an honor club for veterans.

Beautiful gardens and winding paths. We took the 30 minute free tour of the mansion and learned so much about the park!

Love this park! This place has a botanical garden, world war II tanks and museum, a Victorian mansion which is also open for tours, huge picnic ground, concert venue and a gold course. Another thing that's great about it is that admission is free but you have to pay $10 for parking. Not bad considering some botanical gardens charge about $20 per person. I would recommend to come here on a weekday because this place can be full of wedding entourage doing photo shoots on weekends making it hard to enjoy the gardens.

Great educational experience will keep visiting year after year

Acres and acres of beautiful green lawns, lovely flower beds of all sorts of flowers and magnificent old trees, very interesting war museum, Colonel Robert McCormick's mansion home, and a bunch of old tanks for kids to climb all over.

And, I think, an herb garden somewhere.

Beautiful park. Went for their Paris under the stars event, and it was so cute! Live band, food vendors, and a night under the stars. Definitely going back.

No worth it no more, is nothing more to see looks like a jungle

Wonderful and peaceful place of honor. Ample disabled parking, wide walk ways and frequent areas to sit if you have problems. The guides are friendly and will happily help disabled veterans and seniors. Great gardens abound. Well worth the visit to see tanks, cannons and the museum.

Beautiful grounds with amazing historical displays about armored warfare.

$5 parking gets you access to the tank park, gardens, and usually the museum. The museum is only available with tickets while COVID impacts are ongoing. Cantigny is an absolutely beautiful place and a lot of fun

LOL Eric felt threatened here? Ridiculous. Amazing place and piece of history. In the past the price has been steep, but I hear they've lowered it.

Do you guys rent out certain parts of the park for small wedding ceremonies? It is absolutely beautiful

Great place to spend the day with family and lovely gardens.

A pleasant surprise!

Such a great and massive place where we saw a war re-enactment (with actors firing shots, cannons etc. playing out a full ground war scene with formations). This was free of cost, only cost being that to get a parking ($10).

Equally amazing was the detailed war musuems where we got to see the history of 1st division, world war history, VR experiences for a combat mission in a Black Hawk, actual items used in those wars etc. All at no cost!

Overall, this a great park with huge open spaces, tanks from WWI era kept throughout for show, a small and clean water stream inside, and lush green grass to sit and enjoy time with your family. Also a must go place if you love seeing historical war related musuems.

1st division museum. It may have changed since i last went there.

Excellent place for a day with a loved one or the family.

Nice park. A lot of construction noise going on now though. And the cafeteria/restaurant is brutally slow. Took about an hour to get 2 sandwiches we had ordered.

So much ww2 cannons tanks Terist and mooooooooooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeee

Great place that has ton of events like Easter egg hunt, Kite flying days, Dog Days.. etc

Also beautiful landscaping too

This is one of my favorite places I ve ever been to in illinois. There is just so much to do here that I know if I try to list it all I ll forget something. There s tanks for the kids to climb and a military museum to keep older kids amused. The main house tour is just so fun, even my 5 year old enjoyed it. The gardens are just beautiful and the kids loved the splash pad and HUGE play gym. Even though I described so many things, one word comes to mind when I think of Cantigny. That is that it has this wonderful romantic feel about it. It would be a great place for date night! I just love Cantigny.

Sprawling estate with lots to do: You can tour the mansion, explore the First Division museum and have the kids climb the tanks outside, or just wander through the 500 acres of gardens. Plus there are countless family activities throughout the year.

The First Division Museum was great, but the park and gardens are amazing also. The museum is more for older school age kids, obviously has some graphic content with war pictures. Playground for kids was nice and the gardens have a splash fountain/pad to cool off in summer. Only $5 per car to get in, so a great way to spend the day for not a lot of money. There's a place to eat there, but it is a good place to pack a picnic too.

Good place for walk, greenery, photography and events.

Beautiful park with flowers for all seasons.Interesting history.thank you Mr.Mcormick for giving us a great place to spend the day.

Beautiful spot to visit. The museum was incredible!

Absolutely beautiful gardens. Also has a remarkable war museum with tanks for the kids to climb on outside. I would have given 5 stars but they are currently 2 years into a 5 year building project so the full 5 stars is absolutely on its way!

Been here twice and it is always a good experience! I love history and to see the weapons of war. The new renovation greatly improves the experience and makes it worthwhile to come again!

Wonderful Park and museum to visit anytime. Great to understand history and to honor those who have served our country so bravely.

Awsome, cant believe i have never been here before. But ill be back!

Very cool setup. You can walk around and look at the old tanks, flowers and more. I really liked the war rooms too. Very informative!

Excellent place to visit.. museum is really good and so is the gardens and the child play areas.

It was so beautiful! My friend and I went here today ... Wonderful place to learn more about the US and to take a lot of colorful photos. We love walking through the gardens and enjoyed the guided tour at the House Museum. Very interesting! :)

Always a favorite place to visit. I can't wait for all the renovations to be complete!

What a hidden treasure! The demonstrations in the field were a great surprise

Wow! For 5$ parking you can see so much.
We went with the kids there, and there's so much to do: learn history, hiking, picnic, playground, so many flowers.. And a delicious caffe.
Even in Sunday's there's a live music.
You can spend a few hours easily.