Chicago Botanic Garden

enjoy your visit — visiting the garden

2012 Hours of Operation

In the morning, enjoy a cup of coffee, a newspaper, and one of the best made-to-order omelets on the North Shore in the Garden Café, then stroll through 24 display gardens and four natural habitats. The Chicago Botanic Garden is open 365 days each year. Hours are 8 a.m. until sunset, with extended summer and winter holiday season hours.

The West Road will be closed to pedestrian traffic during the week for the safety of our visitors during our shoreline restoration project.

  Winter Hours (November 1 – March 31)
Bright Encounters Tours
 closed
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Plant Conservation Science Center 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily
Fruit & Vegetable Garden
 closes at sunset
Garden Café
 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. weekdays
8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. weekends
Garden Grill closed
Garden Grounds*
 8 a.m. – sunset
Garden Shop
 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. weekdays
10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. weekends
Garden Trolley
 closed
Gatehouse
 November – December, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
January – February, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
March 1 – 31, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
March 12 – 31, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. weekends
Grand Tours closed
Library
 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. weekdays
noon – 4 p.m. weekends
closed holidays
closed January 2
Membership Desk 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily
For extended hours, call (847) 835-8215.
Model Railroad Garden closed
Plant Information Service 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday – Friday
closed holidays
Regenstein Center** 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. daily
Rose Terrace Café closed
Tool Shed
Information Center		 closed
Visitor Center Information Desk 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. weekdays
8 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekends
Walking Tours (Free) closed
Wheelbarrow Shop closed

*Special event areas may extend past posted sunset closings
**Extended hours for class participants