Southern California has fantastic botanical gardens and museum / libraries, but the real grand dame is the Huntington Library and Gardens in San Marino, a tony area of Pasadena. Henry and Arabella Huntington established the garden and library. The mediterranean revival style library was designed in 1920 by architect Myron Hunt. The Huntington Art Gallery opened to the public in 1928. The gardens cover 120 acres and are themed: Japanese, Chinese, Desert, Rose, Shakespeare, Herb, Lily Ponds, Sub Tropical and more. Admission to the Huntington is a little more expensive than some of our other local gardens ($25) and membership starts at $159, but we have a work around! The Huntington does “Free Day” on the first Thursday of every month. You must reserve a ticket and these go very fast! Tickets become available on the first day of the previous month so if you want to go on the first Thursday of April (April 2), you jump on reserving it on March 1. Good luck, and happy walking. https://www.huntington.org/free-day
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