Dubuque Arboretum and Botanical Gardens Review

Beautiful Zen garden and hosta garden. Well taken care of botanical gardens, but not sure if/where a visitor center was. Highly recommend

Amazing place to relax with family. Friendly staff.

Awesome place to walk around and enjoy the flowers and outdoors. Also there are many pokestops and gyms in such a small area.

Free admission. Well laid out. Very manicured. Well worth a trip.

Great place to go for free. Nice but simple visitor center where you can get maps, use the restroom, buy a beverage, etc. A couple signs along the paths would have been nice since the map was not very detailed as far as which path goes where. Very well maintained garden with beautiful flowers and landscaping.

I went to Music in the Park and as always, has a GREAT time! This week was a John Denver tribute & the duo was AMAZING!! No joke! Ted Vigil (John Denver doppelganger in sight & sound) & Amy Days (singing & played violin) and they were AWESOME!! I would pay $ to go to their concerts in the future. But the gardens are AMAZING as well!! Breathtaking.

**I apologize ahead of time, a lot of my photos are blurry, my phone was having issues much to my dismay!!

The gardens are kept in good shape by volunteers and the little pond is a go to spot for us. I've been here for weddings, picnics or just to enjoy. We love the free music on Sunday evenings in the summer. The playground is a nice little addition for the kids. A good place to spend the day with family and friends.

So beautiful and relaxing. My friend and I made this one of our stops during our trip through Iowa. The ladies in the office/shop were very sweet. There's fish food to feed the Koi for $1.

Loved strolling through the beautiful gardens and talking to the many knowledgeable volunteers. Lovely water features and fun trails to walk. Enjoy the fact that this is a free family friendly attraction.

Nice place to go for a walk and a nice play area for the kids

They keep mowing off the wildflowers. It makes me sad every time I go. I wish they would learn how to recognize and appreciate native plants.

Such a beautiful place to visit. Series of different gardens within a garden. And you never have to question what type of plant because they're all labeled (which just provides a huge list of wants for our own yard). They have even have a garden for children complete with Peter Rabbit, Billy Goat's Gruff, the frog prince and a gecko statue... the piece de resistance and perhaps everyone's favorite destination, is the Koi pond.

Beautiful well-groomed flower beds, hosta garden, English Garden and other areas too! Love the koi pond!! Plenty if benches to sit down and enjoy the beauty surrounding you. After all that walking, stop at the gift shop for some frozen ice cream treats!!

Beautiful themed gardens and Koi pond with quaint gazebos in addition to the rolling landscape of
trees. Very impressed with the information station/gift shop and the wedding ceremony capability.

What a beautiful place to enjoy the outdoors in a free park!

Beautiful, well kept, and free!

What's better than hundreds of beautiful flowers in a well maintained quiet peaceful area. Nice activity to make time for.

Arboretum might be a stretch of the term. Very awesome memorial/monument and nice kids park. No dogs allowed, which isn't mentioned on their website, only in tiny print on a small sign near the front of the park.

Fish pond was the highlight of our trip from Wisconsin

Well tended and family friendly. Free but accept donations

Beautiful landscaping and beautiful plants, trees and bushes

One of the most beautiful places in Dubuque and the most peaceful

Beautiful location with lots of things to do. Walking trails, bike trails, koi pond, garden, playground, and more. My kids loved playing at the park and then getting fish food to feed the fish.

This place is GORGEOUS!! Will visit as iften as possible!

Dubuque Arboretum is a wonderful place to go hang out with Mother Nature. The varieties of different Gardens are truly breathtaking especially around the third week of June. The staff were extremely helpful and friendly as well as knowledgeable. From hosting music in the park to hundreds of weddings.

A gem. We enjoyed stepping aside between errands and kid activities to stroll through the well laid out and carefully managed gardens. As we drove out we realized we only touched one area. I'll keep it on my list of places, and see how it changes throughout the year.

Went to my brothers wedding here and it was beautiful (though the heat and the fact I was wearing black pants and vest with a long sleeved shirt made it a tiny bit harder to enjoy)

Always an awesome time! Good for a stroll, getting some fresh air or some ideas.

This is one of the crown jewels of our all-American city!

It is a very beautiful, well kept place. It's a great place to take family pictures!

Beautiful place, playground was nice, good place to let kids run around.

Cool place. Lots of areas to visit. Wide variety. Lots of volunteer areas that were fun to visit. Will return.

Free admission gets you several hours of looking at beautiful flowers and trees.

Very beautiful and was an excellent place for my cousin's wedding.

Me and my kids enjoyed our field trip through the gardens very much. We planned to come back and visit during the different seasons on our long walk.

I would have loved to give the park 5 stars very much so, except something extraordinarily out of the blue happened while visiting the koi pond. A tour cart pulled up with a tour guide and some older tourists and the tour guide started explaining rather loudly to the tourists that "this is what They do, they come here with all their kids and let them run all over the place, then they let them get hurt and sue us." I was SHOCKED. I've never in my life been so shocked I dont think. I was not only shocked I took my kids and left.

I'd love to say me and my children had an amazing time and wonderful field trip today but honestly my day was just ruined.

I'll also add that I went inside to talk with the worker there as she presented herself as someone who somewhat represented the place, thought for sure she might at least apologize for her employee or volunteer? She did not. She said "well that's what some people do." Again, shocked!

I own my house. I have a great career and a lovely family. I've never had to or even thought to sue someone in my life! What a disgraceful establishment.

Amazing place, beautiful gardens, hard to believe that this is almost totally cared for by volunteers

It's truly breath taking and a healthy free place to walk w family

The volunteers do an amazing job keeping ground in great shape. The Sunday night music series is a great way enjoy the grounds with family and friends.

Great play park, flowers, and you can buy food to feed the fish!

I went to Music in the Park and as always, has a GREAT time! This week was a John Denver tribute & the duo was AMAZING!! No joke! Ted Vigil (John Denver doppelganger in sight & sound) & Amy Days (singing & played violin) and they were AWESOME!! I would pay $ to go to their concerts in the future. But the gardens are AMAZING as well!! Breathtaking.

**I apologize ahead of time, a lot of my photos are blurry, my phone was having issues much to my dismay!!

Every community should have a botanical garden of some sort.

Really beautiful place, everyone should visit at least once. So peaceful, saw a fawn. Flowers, pond, can feed coi fish, something for every age to enjoy. Gift shop, cafe & screened in dining area.

Awesome place to get out to stretch during a long trip, or just connect with nature again!