Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens

Beautiful

It's a beautiful park and gardens along the Rock. While the gardens and lagoon have been around for decades, the addition of the conservatory added to its appeal. It sits next to a walking path alon...

Fun for the Littles and the Grownups!

We recently toured the Nicholas Conservatory and Gardens Butterfly Experience. What a lovely way to spend a morning! An orchid show had recently wrapped up, but many of the orchids remained. They were...

What a pleasant surprise!

I was visiting Rockford as a daytrip on a Monday, and stopped at the Nicholas Conservatory & Gardens parking lot to access the Riverfront Bike Trail. To my pleasant surprise, I found the Conservatory...

Butterfly exhibit

I went for the butterfly exhibit. I've been to butterfly wonderland in Arizona so I was kind of expecting that but it was very small compared to that. However that wasn't a deal breaker. The conservat...

Butterflies were cool.

I'll start by saying the Rockford Parks website isn't user friendly. They ask odd questions that you have to fill in to even get to where the tickets are shown. Since we are still doing timed entran...