The Holden Arboretum Review

Wonderful park for dog walks or to just take in the scenery. Very well maintained and with excellent information.

Love this place! Can't miss it for the fall season, a must see!

Beautiful and very well maintained highly recommended.

Beautiful place to take walks, especially with family!

Beautiful, especially with the changing leaves. Make sure to check out the canopy walk.

Very nice walk. Getting to the top of the canopy is worth it.

Great place for pleasure walks and hiking. Extremely well-groomed year round. Staff is friendly and there are plenty of events to attend.

Family Membership is about $80 per year but well worth it, especially if you plan to visit frequently. Canopy walks and Emergent Tower are free with membership. Admission to Cleveland Botanical Gardens free with membership as well, inquire at front desk.

Absolutely love all the trails and gardens and streams to explore and show off to guests!! Tower and canopy are absolutely unique and incredible views!!! THE ONLY THING THAT I WOULD IMPROVE: extend open hours!!!!!!!!!!!!! I would have loved to take sunset photos with friends and also for my wedding day!!!

A must see if you are in the area! The plants and trees are amazing and of course you have to hit up the tower and the walkway.

Beautiful. Trails throughout area. Canopy walk and tower are highlights.

Terrible mask deal. Make you wear it on the tower and canopy walk but not the bridges. What's the difference? They are both man-made structures. Will not be coming back.

The skywalk and towers are a must. Reasonable cost to visit. A lot of trails to walk and explore. It is a beautiful place with stuff for the whole family. Especially beautiful in the spring or the fall. Plenty of parking though some of it is on grass/gravel which is a bit of a walk to the entrance. Great place for all ages!

Such a lovely arboretum!! The emergent tower gives an amazing view in all directions! Great way to spend a nice summer or fall day!

My 3 and 6 year old boys loved the butterfly garden and the scavenger hunt for fairydoors.

Great for walking and running. Make sure you check out the tower and the canopy walk.

Little pricey but it is worth it, the tower and canopy walk are great along with the out door walking paths with flower gardens and ponds

I only wish. I had know of this Arboretum sooner. My Father had a love, and passion for flowers, and plants. He would of true been over welhemed by all the beautiful plants in bloom. Just breath taking. A place to take your family to enjoy the outside, and surrounding area.

Beautiful place to hike. Definitely worth the trip. Take the canopy tour even if you don't like heights! It's short and sweet. Also, going to the top of the tower provides an amazing view!!

Beautiful spot to hike around in, have events, bring the dog, theres lots of activities for kids, and canopy walls that look amazing.

The canopy walk and the tower were amazing. With a membership you can go to both the Cleveland Botanical Gardens and the Holden arboretum. Reciprocal previledges with many arboreta.

Family membership is a great way to go if not just passing through.

Spent Mother's Day at Holden, we all had a wonderful time. Beautiful scenery and relaxing stops to enjoy nature.

Lovely place to go for a hike . The tower and canopy tree walk were fun . Felt the canopy tee walk was a very short one . Don't forget to pay at the entrance if you would like to go to these two places . If you don't pay , you can go around the place and hike but I suggest paying and going to the two places .

Beautiful park with plenty of trails and room to run.

Great place to visit with your family or dog...or both

Really good place for a day with the kids. It was nuclear hot the day we were there so we didn't last long but we plan on coming back in the fall for a full day. Utilize the picnic area and charcoal grills. Highly recommend the canopy tower... sways in the wind a bit so yeah, exciting.

I go for walks here everyday since I live right around the corner. A true treasure of natural beauty all year round. Lots of tails to get lost on and a well maintained visitor center with lots of amenities. A very peaceful place, so don't come here and crowd it up.

Absolutely beautiful gardens and the canopy walk was super cool. My husband and I spent about two hours there and have to go back soon to explore the parts we didn't get to.

My mom really loved this place. Don't miss canopy walk and the view from tower.

Wonderful place to get back to nature, to hike, to relax.

Enjoyable walk would have been nice if flowers were blooming. Plan on coming back in the summer. Nice paths to walk on.

So much nature. Relaxing and plenty of things/activities for children

Knowledgeable staff, beautiful gardens, hiking trails, and ponds.

Surprisingly compact area in Arboretum includes the main draws of Murch Canopy Walk and Kalberer Family Emergent Tower. Plenty of plaques explaining trees you're seeing and related information. Display and Wildflower Gardens were more attractive, informative and memorable for my money. Ditto the Rhododendron Discovery Garden. Heath Pond is so placid and calming. A delight to sit and watch. Woodland Trail is exactly what the name implies. Note that it remains at the top of the valley. If you want to really get into the woods, The Offut boardwalk takes you down into the valley and along the stream without getting wet or muddy feet. No breeze down here so the insects are noticeable. What goes down must come up again so mind the climb you'll find on the Valley Trail that the Offut boardwalk leads into. Holden is well worth visiting in different seasons to see the dramatic changes that occur.

The trails are well marked and rated for difficulty.

Wow what an experience. I used to go here as a young man and how it's changed---all for the better. I climbed the tower and could see all the way to Lake Erie (clear day). I hiked a trail. Beautiful place. Highly recommend.

Pack a picnic, wear comfortable shoes and make a day of exploring, learning and discovering!

This place is a must see. It's so relaxing and enjoying for the whole family.

Beautiful and peaceful. Great place to take your family or go on a date.

Holden has been on my bucket list for several years but have never had the chance to go. We took fill advantage of the beautiful fall day yesterday and made the hour drive and boy was it worth it! The entire place was breathtakingly beautiful. All the little gardens and paths were fun to explore. I will definitely be back!

I always wanted to learn to identify the trees in my own state.

Loving the addition of the emergent tower and the sky walk!

What a beautiful place. So much to do. Need a few days to enjoy this place. The tower was amazing. The views were beautiful. Could see Lake Erie, it was so clear.
Will be back the next time we visit family.

Absolutely beautiful and well-kept. I definitely recommend spending extra for the tower and canopy walk.

Really beautiful and nicely curated. I'd like to go again during the seasons changing to see different plant life bloom.

Everything was gorgeous. My favorite was the water lily pond. They could treat their members better. Our friend had to walk all the way back to the center to get tickets for the canopy walk.

We had no idea what to expect, WE FREAKING HAD AN AWESOME DAY. It's so beautiful, we are going back up in another month to see all the changes in the leaves. And the lookout tower holy heck, I am afraid of heights and didn't even think about it climbing up there but boy is it beautiful up there well worth the trip. We stopped at Mitchell's ice cream over by beechwood after. Beautiful day beautiful sights.

My wife and I had a fantastic day at the Arboretum!

Great exercise and a fun place to get good with nature!

We loved walking through the Arboretum! Its kid and dog friendly! Beautiful place to go and enjoy the day! Want to go back in fall for all the color!

Very large and well maintained. Attractions and views for young and old alike.

I always ride my bicycle out from Shaker Heights just to see the incredible beauty

Amazing grounds. Great place to walk and sight see.

A wonderful place to go to escape the city. We always have a great time here, and the membership is definitely worth getting if you go more than once a year.

This place is beautiful! It does have an entrance fee and you need tickets for the bridge and tower exhibit but it's well worth the cost. It's a big reservation with lots of different things to see. The arboretum is very well maintained. Bring your dog and a picnic basket, you'll have a wonderful time here.

Loved our walk. Didn't make the canopy walk or tower before the rain, but still totally worth the gate fee AND we can take our canopy/tower tickets and use them at a later date! If you need to be forced to be entertained and cannot just enjoy nature this is NOT for you. Everyone else... I highly recommend spending some time here.

Beautiful place to spend the day, lots of amazing plants and trees, check out the canopy walk and the emergent tower.

Well worth the money for a great day of hiking and education!

Very peaceful. Visitors and staff friendly and observing social distancing. Trails of different levels of difficulty. Not to mention the beautiful gardens.

Great place to get away for a few hours, relax and enjoy nature.