You may enjoy the tour most by following the accompanying map as you stroll through the gardens.
Benches await in many shady havens.
The Cantigny Gardens were designed in 1967 by landscape architect Franz Lipp to provide beauty throughout the year and to test plants new to the Chicago area. The gardens, now mature, are considered among the finest in America. As you enter the gardens from the Visitors Center, the North Scalloped Garden is your first stop. Moving on to the Fountain Garden , you are at the focal point of two dramatic vistas, extending from the Visitors Center to the Rock Garden and from the Green Garden to the Douglas Fir Garden. In early spring, this stately garden exhibits a profusion of flowering trees such as magnolias and a variety of flowering shrubs.