The Cleveland Botanical Garden was the first civic garden in the country. Today, it features nine permanent gardens on 10 lush acres with 400 species of exotic plants, butterflies, insects, birds and animals, as well as a soaring 18,000-square-foot conservatory housing authentic recreations of Madagascar and Costa Rica. We are excited to host you in this space on Saturday!
To feel dwarfed beneath towering sandstone cliffs, hit the two-mile Ledges Trail, featuring offshoot caves and boat-sized boulders, This is our favorite trail in the park! No trip is complete without admiring the thunderous Brandywine Falls, where water rushes down 60 feet into a namesake creek. Snag the best vantage point via the lower deck of the boardwalk or take the 1.5-mile Brandywine Gorge Loop to see this bridal-veil waterfall from multiple angles.
The Great Lakes Science Center makes science come alive with permanent exhibits about Cleveland’s maritime history (the restored William G. Mather steamship), space exploration (the NASA Glenn Visitor Center), medicine (BioMedTech Gallery) and cool scientific concepts, like what 350,000 volts of static electricity does to your hair (Science Phenomena).