Our newest tulip garden is called Garden Rosalyn. Enjoy the expansive tulip garden with its beautiful arrangements. Enjoy the nearby food trucks and picnic tables. Dogs on leashes who behave well are welcome! Children under the age of five can enter for free. Parking is uncharged. Garden Rosalyn may be found in Mount Vernon, Washington, at 16648 Jungquist Rd. They can be reached at 360-202-7982.
Do the tulips have blooms yet? What time of year is ideal for seeing tulips? Mother Nature determines the precise dates that tulips blossom. For updates, check out the Bloom Map and follow us on Facebook and Instagram. The entire month of April is devoted to the Tulip Festival. On weekdays, early morning and late afternoon are the least crowded times. The weekend is busy. Booking a Lodging Option in Skagit Valley and passing by the fields in the early morning or late afternoon will give you the finest experience.
A: Every year, from April 1 to 30, the Tulip Festival is celebrated. However, when the tulips blossom is decided by mother nature. Tulips can bloom in the last week of March in some years and the second week of April in other years. Additionally, there are tulip variants that bloom sooner and later. The first daffodil blossoms in March are celebrated at the La Conner Daffodil Festival.
A: I’d want to begin making travel arrangements for the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.
A calendar of events where? A: In January, the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival brochure will be available. Here are links to download and view: Brochure for the 2022 Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
A: Observing the fields from the road is free, but for information on admission for Tulip Town and Roozengaarde, check above.
A: You can always see the tulip fields! However, Tulip Town is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily during the Tulip Festival, and the RoozenGaarde display garden is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
Are children welcome at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival? Are there children’s activities or events?
A: Yes, please see our list of tours for the tulip festival. Check out our other Skagit Trips options, such as our whale viewing and Deception Pass boat tours, if you appreciate tours. Check out our self-guided tour maps, which include Heritage Barns, Skagit Valley Culinary Bounty, and a Walking Trail Guide, if you’d want to venture outside the tulip world. Interested in more? Check out Skagit County’s Things To Do.
A: Can we ride our bikes on the fields, and are there any bike trails nearby?
Yes! Nearly every road has a shoulder to ride on and is beautiful and flat among the tulip fields. For routes, consult the Skagit County Bike Map.
A: The roads leading up to the fields will have signage prohibiting parking. Please use a parking area for safety reasons.
A: Dogs and other animals are not permitted in the fields or show gardens. The newest Tulip Garden is an exception. Dogs on leashes that behave nicely are welcome in Garden Rosalyn.
A: From Seattle, take I-5 North, and from Vancouver, BC, take I-5 South. Use the Tulip Festival map to choose your exit based on where you want to go and which fields you want to see. From I-5, you will be traveling west.
I’m a Canadian.
Can we re-enter the border with cut flowers? How about lightbulbs?
A: You are welcome to place cut tulip flowers along the border. However, because they are in the ground, bulbs cannot be purchased during the tulip festival, but they can be delivered to Canada in the fall.
What are Show Gardens, exactly? A: You really must go to both RoozenGaarde and Tulip Town! The grounds have more than a million spring bulbs planted. Both have an admission fee; however, Tulip Town tickets cannot be used at RoozenGaarde and vice versa. The gardens are off-limits to pets.
Since the early 1900s, tulips from the Skagit Valley have been grown here. Currently, the Washington Bulb Co., Inc/RoozenGaarde grows “field tulips.” The timing of the field tulips’ blooming is dependent on the weather in April. Visit our Facebook sites, phone the Tulip Festival office at 360.428.5959, or the BLOOM MAP to check on the status of the bloom. You will require a fresh map every year because tulip crops rotate.
A: The two gardens, RoozenGaarde and Tulip Town, offer free parking. Bradshaw Road has parking for Tulip Town. Beaver Marsh Road’s RoozenGaarde. On busy days, both feature overflow parking; flaggers will direct you. A few of the tulip fields are serviced by official, paid parking run by RoozenGaarde. Your official pay lot ticket stub is good for one entry to RoozenGaarde, and parking in designated lots is included with paid RoozenGaarde admission (display your ticket stub). Parking and admission must take place on the same day. Please take note that lots near the fields may close if it rains too much.
Some landowners impose parking fees. You cannot purchase entrance or additional parking with the money you pay.
Can I bring my drone to the festival of tulips? A: No, drones are not permitted in the fields or gardens.
I’m a seasoned photographer.
Do I have to give RoozenGaarde credit if I publish images of the exhibition fields or garden? Yes, please sign and send the Tulip Festival Photo Release Form to the Roozengaarde (Washington Bulb Co.) office.
A: I drive a tour bus.
Do I have to complete a reservation form to park my bus? A: Fill out the Tulip Festival Bus Reservation Form if you would.
Holland Michigan Tulip Festival lasts how long?
The community of Holland, Michigan, as well as Dutch ancestry are all honored during Tulip Time.
Millions of tourists have flocked to Holland, Michigan during Tulip Time for the past 92 years. With more than six million tulips flowering throughout the city and nearby attractions throughout the eight-day festival, it is an experience unlike any other. America’s Best Small Town Festival, America’s Best Flower Festival, and even the 2017–2018 Tulip Festival of the Year awards have all been given to Tulip Time! Please join us as we celebrate our multicultural community, commemorate our heritage, and ogle one of nature’s most exquisite and different flowers: the beloved tulip.
Where is the Albany, New York, Tulip Festival?
The Tulip Festival is a must-attend springtime event in Albany. The Tulip Festival is a dazzling display of regional culture and commerce. It includes yearly traditions rooted in the city’s rich Dutch heritage, nearly 100 artisans selling their handmade goods, a fine arts show, delicious food, the KidZone family fun area, two stages of top-notch live entertainment, and more than 140,000 tulips in 150 different varieties. The 81-acre “crown gem of the City,” Washington Park, provides the setting for everything.
Use 1 New Scotland Ave, Albany NY 12208 for GPS directions to the park’s main entrance.
At these specified free parking areas, CDTA will offer a gratis shuttle service to Washington Park:
- Parking lot for patients needing additional assistance or in a wheelchair at Albany Medical Center, accessible from Robin Street. The Madison Avenue/New Scotland gate to the park is where the shuttle will drop off its passengers.
Tulip Festival parking is free:
- Parking garage on Elk Street, behind the State Education Building. Elk and Hawk at the stop sign will be the location of the pickup.
- Parking garage on Eagle Street, at the intersection of Eagle Street and Madison Avenue
Depending on traffic, shuttles will run every 20 to 25 minutes. The weekend of the Tulip Festival, all parking lots are free to use.
Special guidelines are in force: Outside of the designated beer garden area, no alcohol is allowed. No recording of performances, any kind of glass container, or pets or animals (excluding ADA-defined service animals). All parks within the City of Albany are now smoke-free. Any bag, container, or box may be inspected by security personnel, who reserve the right to seize any forbidden or unlawful materials. Without previous written approval, no recording of the performance or presentation may be made. All guests who plan to drink alcohol should be prepared to show proof of age at any moment. Ground rules are subject to change without prior notice; specific requests for exceptions due to illness or child care needs may be considered.
Tulip Tours
Get additional information from City Gardener Jena Commerford about the wide array of flowers that were planted for Tulip Fest. Reservations are required for the free visits, which are limited and can be made by calling 518.434.2032. (If the weather permits.
When are tulips in Holland, Michigan, blooming?
The park opens at 9 am and is open until 7 pm during Tulip Time, with tickets being sold until 6 pm. Only visitors who have purchased admission by 6pm will be permitted in, so please plan ahead. Due to the high volume of visitors on the weekends, there may be lineups to park in our lot and pay for entrance. Entry inside the park is not guaranteed without paying for admission. The remainder of our season, from April 18 to October 2, is from 9:30 am to 6 pm, with tickets being offered until 5 pm.
Our park is highly busy during Tulip Time, so to ensure access, we recommend going during the week or outside of Tulip Time. Tulips typically blossom both before and after the festival. Tulip Time weekends are particularly crowded, and our parking lot will be full. Weekdays are typically a little less hectic.
Our tulips typically start blooming in late April and continue until mid-May, however it is too early to determine when they will reach their peak. Instead of all blossoming at once, our tulips flow into color because to their variety.
To track the development of tulips throughout the city, go to the City of Holland’s Tulip Tracker HERE!
Adult admission costs $12, while children aged three to fifteen pay $6. To avoid dealing with actual cash, we advise visitors to use a credit card to make their payment.
Yes, we have a parking lot for 250 cars. Our causeway blocks incoming traffic when it is full until space becomes available. There is additional free parking in Downtown Holland, including a building on 7th Street between Columbia and College Avenues (just past our entrance on the right). It is a short distance from there to our ticket booth.
We are collaborating with Zeeland Public Schools to offer a FREE shuttle service on our causeway from 10 am to 7 pm on the Saturdays and Sundays of Tulip Time (May 7/8 & 14/15). Visitors won’t have to walk the entire two and a half miles to our entry location because a bus will pick them up at the top of our causeway (behind Freedom Village and the bus/train terminal). After their tour, it will take visitors back to the causeway’s top. In order to prevent congestion and harmful conditions on our causeway, we advise walkers to use this bus. Please be aware that only guests parked in the downtown area are eligible for this service (NOT our parking lot.)
Although we don’t presently sell advance tickets, visitors can buy a membership online HERE, which grants free access to our website as well as free or discounted access to dozens of other American Horticultural Society reciprocal gardens across the US and Canada. Please give your membership card two weeks to arrive. Keep in mind that there can still be queues to enter the park and the parking lot. We are unable to promise entry to the park during peak hours due to visitor quantity restrictions.
All of our structures and attractions are currently open, including:
tours of “De Zwaan” windmills. Visitors are welcome to have a socially disengaged, self-guided tour of the mill. To prevent crowding, a certain number of visitors are only permitted at once, and some locations have restrictions.
Tulips and a variety of other flowers and plants can be found in our lovely gardens and grounds.
All day long, ‘The Four Columns’ Amsterdam Street Organ will be played.
To ensure sufficient social distance, the Welkom Movie and Virtual Windmill Tour was relocated to Celebration Pavilion.
We will keep an eye on state health regulations to see if any adjustments are required.
There are only a few food alternatives available to us, including weekday food wagons and snacks from our gift shop. Boxed lunches will be offered in our pavilion every day on the weekends. Check out the many eateries and specialty festival vendors in the downtown area for delicious culinary selections.
We will abide by all regional, national, and local regulations that tell us how to operate and maintain our attractions.
Shared surfaces will be cleaned during the day by staff, with a complete cleaning done every evening and as needed. The park will have hand sanitizer available for both visitors and employees to use.
We kindly request that anyone who has COVID-19, has had contact with someone who has COVID-19 within the last two weeks, or is displaying any COVID-19 symptoms (cough, shortness of breath, sore throat, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, or loss of sense of taste or smell) avoid going to our park at this time.
Yes, our gift shops have a variety of regional and Dutch mementos. Please be aware that at this time, mill products like flour and grits are not accessible.
Please consider becoming a member HERE to support our work. They provide free or discounted entrance to several gardens participating in the reciprocal arrangement with the American Horticultural Society, in addition to the Windmill Island Gardens. Donations are gratefully accepted HERE to support our future activities.