Elizabeth Park Conservatory also hosts special events, outdoor concerts and tours regularly on its grounds. USA Today Best Casino Outside of Las Vegas 2022 Fox Tower Hotel - AAA Four Diamond Award Grand Pequot Hotel - AAA Four Diamond Award & TripAdvisor. It became the first official test garden in 1912 for the American Rose Society founded in 1892, with the idea to test and provide accurate information about roses to the public. It is the first municipal rose garden in the United States and now the third largest rose garden in the country today.
The original main garden, the “square,” is an acre in size and has 132 rose beds while the north and south gardens, which are semi-circular, make up a total of 2.5 acres of roses and 475 beds. This beautiful area offers visitors the opportunity to see over 15,000 rose bushes and 800 varieties of old and new roses, and the formal rose gardens are laid out with arches & pathways leading to a central gazebo. At the center of picturesque Elizabeth Park, a 100-acre greenspace full of walking paths, ponds, stone bridges, greenhouses and a cafe, sits the Helen S Kaman Rose Garden.
