Guided and self-guided garden visits on Kauai’s North and South Shores.
We bring you closer to Kauai’s plants, landscapes, and cultural connections. Choose a guided garden tour or a self-guided visit, from Allerton and McBryde on the South Shore to Limahuli and Na Aina Kai on the North Shore.
Four ways to explore the National Tropical Botanical Garden.
National Tropical Botanical Gardens
Experience two distinct gardens in one guided visit, pairing selected Allerton garden rooms with highlights from McBryde.
For visitors who want to see it all, the Behind-the-ScenesTour guides guests through select Allerton Garden rooms and McBryde Garden highlights. This tour offers a taste of both magnificent gardens.
National Tropical Botanical Gardens
Changing evening light adds another layer to Allerton’s landscaped gardens and history on our sunset visit.
Treat yourself and someone you love to a special tour of the Allerton Garden at Sunset. Once a favorite destination of the rich and famous, the Allertons hosted notable individuals, such as Jacqueline Kennedy, in their home and garden.
National Tropical Botanical Gardens
Native Hawaiian plants and tropical collections reveal the connections between people and plants throughout McBryde Garden.
McBryde Garden covers 50 acres of plant collections, including native Hawaiian and ethnobotanical species, palms, coffee-family plants and coral trees. Explore the Spice of Life Trail, Hawaiian Life Canoe Plant Garden and Biodiversity Trail.
National Tropical Botanical Gardens
Sculptures, water features, and remarkable tropical trees frame our guided walk through Allerton’s landscaped garden rooms.
Allerton Garden is a landscape architecture masterpiece named one of the ’50 Places of a Lifetime’ by National Geographic Traveler. Guided tours of the Allerton Garden are part garden tour, part art exhibit and entirely unique. Visitors are guided through expertly crafted garden rooms that feature exotic plants, sculptures, and water features.
Living landscapes in Hāʻena and Kilauea.
Explore Limahuli’s Hawaiian plants and restored food systems to understand the ties between this North Shore valley and its people.
Located in Hanalei! Encounter Indigenous food systems—some over 1,000 years old—that feed us today. Walk through precious Hawaiian forests where native plants find sanctuary. Experience the deep bonds that hold this ahupuaʻa together, from ridge to reef, and nurture your own relationship with ʻāina.
Bronze sculptures and water features sit among tropical plantings in Na Aina Kai’s formal gardens.
On the Self-Guided Walking Tour you will find the Formal Gardens are graced by Shower Tree Park, Ka’ula Lagoon with its plunging waterfall and tropical island, a Japanese teahouse, a Desert Garden, a Palm Garden, and more than 30 bronze sculptures.
Select a date for current admission prices, tour times and visitor requirements.