Back and bigger for the 2022 holiday season, Glow is billed as “an outdoor color and light experience,” with an expanded space to encompass even more of the NY Botanical Garden’s grounds. Expect washes of brilliant color, thousands of dazzling LEDs, illuminated plant stories, ice-carving demonstrations, and whimsical, picture-perfect installations that reflect the surrounding gardens and collections. Make it a double feature and check out the popular New York Botanic Garden Holiday Train Show.

Established in 1891, this historic landmark covers 250 acres. The Everett Children's Adventure Garden offers drop-in activities on weekends, and you can grab a pamphlet here for a garden scavenger hunt. Ever-changing gardens here include and Azalea garden, rock garden, perennial garden, a seasonal walk and native plant garden. The NYBG also hosts large-scale art events (recent seasons have featured shows by Yayoi Kusama and Dale Chihuly) a well as seasonal displays.

This 250-acre verdant oasis is smack dab in the middle of the concrete jungle. The NYBG is a historic destination open to guests year round. This year, it's adding a splash of color with its holiday celebration, NYBG Glow, an outdoor light experience that will brighten up the grounds with Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at its center.

Spread across 250 acres, the New York Botanical Garden – the largest of any city in the USA – is a national landmark. Both its research and its community and education programs aim to empower future generations to care for our planet. Wander along the wetland trail to spot ducks and turtles in the reeds; stop and smell the roses at the Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden (one of the world’s most sustainable rose gardens); or take a self-guided audio tour and meditative walk among ancient trees.

First opened in 1891 and incorporating 50 acres of old-growth forest, the New York Botanical Garden is home to the restored Enid A Haupt Conservatory, a grand, Victorian iron-and-glass edifice that is now a New York landmark. See the website for a list of regular events, which include themed walking tours, children’s book readings and film screenings.