Visiting a garden is a vastly underrated way to spend a day. They are peaceful, beautiful, and lack the bustling, noisy crowds of other popular destinations. You can only catch most of these public gardens for a few months of the year, but they all are worth the effort for the spectacular variety they provide.

1. Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park, St. Paul.
Flickr/Tony Webster
2. Clemens Gardens, St. Cloud.
Flickr/Sharon Mollerus
3. Munsinger Gardens, St. Cloud.
Flickr/RLEVANS
4. Normandale Japanese Garden, Bloomington.
Flickr/Michael Hicks
5. Glensheen Mansion Gardens, Duluth.
Flickr/Randen Pederson
6. Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska.
Flickr/Rhonda Fleming Hayes
7. August Schell Brewery Gardens, New Ulm.
Flickr/Doug Kerr
8. Horticultural Display Gardens of the University of Minnesota, St. Paul.
Flickr/Andria

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9. Lake Harriet Gardens, Minneapolis.
Flickr/m01229
10. Noerenberg Gardens on Lake Minnetonka.
Flickr/m01229
11. Enger Park Gardens, Duluth.
Flickr/Randen Pederson
12. Duluth Rose Garden.
Flickr/Sharon Mollerus
13. Loring Park Gardens, Minneapolis
Flickr/Phil Roeder
14. Muriel Sahlin Arboretum, Roseville.
Flickr/Linda Owen
Visiting a garden is a vastly underrated way to spend a day. They are peaceful, beautiful, and lack the bustling, noisy crowds of other popular destinations. You can only catch most of these public gardens for a few months of the year, but they all are worth the effort for the spectacular views they provide.
15. Lyndale Park Rose Garden, Minneapolis.
Flickr/Passej
16. Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, Theodore Wirth Park, Minneapolis.
Flickr/Molly O.

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