Brookgreen Gardens

$ 16 to have 7 days to visit one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to is a great deal. Bought tickets towards the end of our trip. So much to see and do, wish I had found earlier. Did the boat tour for extra $ 8, well worth it. Saw many baby alligators and a couple big ones. Hope to return someday.

This place is filled with very interesting history and culture. By the way, the prices are great and your tickets are good for a week. We came when it was sunny and before we left, there was a quick rain shower… and when the sun comes out after a shower, it is breathtaking. There is dense Spanish moss in the trees throughout the park and the moss dries up and turns grey after there is an absence of rain. As soon as the rain hits, the Spanish moss turns a lovely green and makes the park even more beautiful then it already is. Thumbs up for Brookgreen.

This is an AMAZING place to visit. Very relaxing and just beautiful! I’ve visited only once, but I cannot wait to go back!

Amazing place. One of my all time favorites. Simply beautiful, a cultural master piece. A must see if within 100 miles.

A beautiful setting and truly scenic experience like none other on the Grand Strand… but…the staff at Brookgreen Gardens are, in general, far from courteous and helpful. We have had a membership for four years, yet even visiting the Gardens has proven frustrating. A staff member asked us to roll down our windows to see if «someone else» was in our vehicle, despite us both presenting our membership cards with no one else in the vehicle. This was not warranted and is just one example of how rude many of the employees and volunteers at BG tend to be interacting with the public. Beautiful, yes, but be forewarned: do not expect to feel welcome.

We loved this place! Great to get out and walk around. Nice little picnic area for the family, multiple restaurants, plus a great view at every turn! Our pass was also good for six extra days. Can’t beat that!

Very pretty! You can explore the sculpture garden, the zoo, the otters, the bird aviaries, take a trip along old rice fields on a pontoon boat, and eat at one of the restaurants. There is tons to do for any age or any one. The tickets are good for 7 days after purchase. Additional activities such as the pontoon boat tour cost extra. There is a free shuttle that picks up and drops off all around the gardens. Bring water you can also purchase it around nay attraction, but it is $ 2 a bottle. The garden café was great for lunch and very cleanZ I enjoyed the large pretzel and my husband enjoyed a turkey sandwich.

This place is gorgeous. I go every time I come. It’s very peaceful, relaxing and gorgeous. Make sure you wear your walking shoes though!!!

Beautiful place to go with family and friends, also take some very nice photos as well! Can’t wait to go back.

This was our 2^nd visit here and we loved it just as much as the first time! Pack a lunch and spend the day wandering through the beautiful gardens, playing in the storybook forest play area, and viewing local animals at the zoo. The staff is very accommodating and the grounds are perfect. There is a lot of room to run around for kids, and a lot to view. While somewhat small in terms of a zoo, the animals are all rescued and rehab animals. The bird area is my favorite complete with local birds up close. I even saw a black water snake! At this time they had a lego exhibit which my boys really loved. Just walking among the old trees with moss hanging down seemed magical. This is a special place that you should take a day to visit. We also checked out the butterfly garden which was a bargain price. Take a break from the beach and go.

Great place to walk around! We could have spent 6+ hours there. The lawns, flowers, and grounds were well manicured. Sculptures were beautifully placed and surrounded by beautiful flowers and water fountains. Great little zoo area with horses, lambs, steer, alligators, sea otters, and birds. They had a small Lego display, that lasts until September. We found a groupon so the deal was even better! Definitely worth the drive to see when you’re around the Myrtle Beach area.

Beautiful place to visit. Plan on spending the day walking around to enjoy it all. Lots of status to look at. Petting zoo and of course the butterfly house.

If you are ever in the Myrtle Beach area I highly recommend you plan a visit here. We only spent a couple of hours here, it was a cold windy day. We took the walking tour, our tour guide was wonderful and we were lucky to be in a small group. Sadly I didn’t get her name. This is the location of what had been in the early 1700’s rice plantations. The grounds are vast and there are sculptors all over place. There are things we didn’t get to do on our visit– the zoo and lowlands. There are teams that can shuttle you around to reduce the amount of walking. They have strollers for children and adults. The tix price was $ 16 per adult and that ticket is good for 7 days. There is a river boat tide and butterfly garden and those cost more– I don’t know how much more.

The gardens are a must-​see, even at the very beginning of the spring season.
A great place to take a quiet walk to appreciate nature and art installations.
Just my opinion, but I got more out of my time here last spring when I stopped in on the way back from day trips to other areas, rather than planning it as a one-​visit, one-​stop.
The drive to or from Myrtle Beach; hell, even driving a half mile down Ocean Blvd isn’t exactly low-​frustration. A quick stop here to walk around the beautiful grounds for twenty or thirty minutes does more than a beta blocker. Fer real. And since a ticket is good for a week, cost-​effective!
(Note: review addresses gardens, not café or gift shop, neither of which were of the least interest to me.)

Excellent place to stroll and spend the day. The little café was okay. had the taco salad and my daughter had the kids chicken nuggets… kinda high for what it was… but were satisfied. The giant cookie was pretty awesome. Did the boat tour and that was neat (once we managed to not get elbowed out of the way by the older crowd beating a hasty path to get onto the boat (bless their hearts… they wanted that perfect seat).
The gardens were just coming into bloom… tulips beautiful. The low country trials and zoo section was cute– more for the kids. My teen loves the butterfly garden.
Take your camera and enjoy the day.
*the reason it got 4 out of 5 stars was the food… otherwise I highly recommend it. The passes are for a week so tech you could just go eat elsewhere before or after… tons around the area.
I have to say… the bathrooms were the cleanest I’ve come across in a while.

AMAZING! A must see if you’re visiting the Myrtle Beach area. Even though I visited during daily rain showers, it didn’t stop me from enjoying the beauty of this place.
Your tickets are good for a week! Awesome, right? My family and I took the trek ride and boat ride, both of which were so informative and interactive! Like I said, it rained the whole week we were there, so utilizing the week-​pass was a bust. But, when we travel back to SC, we’re always marking it on our calendars to come back here. I still want to do the zoo and other extras!

I have always been a fan of Brookgreen, but it’s always seemed like a lot of money to visit a lot. I have worked a few weddings on the grounds in the gardens and that seems like a fairy tale! The Huntingtons were brilliant, both in talent and taste. When you walk around and discover a new statue every time, or appreciate it differently each time, it really does make it worth every penny.
There are also private excursions you can take part in, massive manicured grounds to walk, a great zoo with otters, foxes, deer, alligators, a crazy kinda scary aviary, paved paths, butterfly house, and a great outdoor playground with «fairy tale» themed houses, a couple swings on the castle, a pirate ship with net to climb, water misters in the summertime, Adirondack chairs for parents to chill on while the kids play (if you have that luxury), a Dr. Seuss fun house, and a few others. Not a lot of people know about this awesome playground, and they have some educational stuff off to the side that you can walk to.
Once my son was old enough to run around, I decided to get the Brookgreen membership for the zoo path that he loves to walk and run and explore. In the beginning, it was just about the walk, but as he started remembering places, he recognized the animals and had more fun with it. The best part is when they have fall festivals, beautiful Christmas displays, and of course the FLOWERS.
Special note: the paths in the gardens are completely handicapped accessible, which is freaking awesome.

This has been one of my favorite things to do in the Myrtle Beach area since I’ve been coming here. The gardens are beautiful, peaceful, and fun. Tickets are expensive at $ 15 a piece but we were able to use a buy one get one free Groupon which made it more affordable. There are plenty of beautiful sculptures you can see in the garden but based on our time we only saw a few. During this visit I took the boat ride and to the butterfly garden which costs extra but we’re worth it. I enjoyed the history walk of the plantation as well as the animals in a little zoo. I can’t wait to go back and explore more of the gardens.

I loved this place! I went on a trip to South Carolina with my boyfriend, and this was the place I was most excited to visit. It was so beautiful. This place is SO massive, with amazing flowers and trees and ponds. It was wonderful to walk through. The first pond we saw had fish, frogs, and tadpoles in it. There were many flowers in bloom when we went in spring. The statues were cool to look at. There were also two little art galleries that were fun to look at. Their gift shop had a lot of interesting things, it wasn’t cheap but I never expect gift shops at places like these to be anyway. The bird house was SO COOL… although frightening. I have never been to a place where you can get so close to birds like that. I kept wanting to go back in, but my boyfriend was scared, haha.
I love that admission was so cheap. Less than 10 dollars, and you get to go back for I believe 4 days after. That was really cool, because we were able to go back on days when we had an extra hour or two with nothing to do. Also despite being during spring break time, it was never too crowded.
We did pay to do a pontoon boat ride in the evening. My boyfriend did not want to go at first because he thought it might be boring, but he ended up loving it and so did I! It was very relaxing and the tour guide was interesting. He talked all about the different plants, we saw an alligator laying, a few turtles, some different herons and birds. The tour guide also answered questions and told a few jokes. He was a really likeable guy. All of the employees, by the way, were older. And they all seemed really happy to be working there! I loved that. Everyone smiled and was happy to help.
I think my favorite part about this place, however, was the fact that I wrote on a comment card how much I enjoyed my time, and the employees. They sent me a thank you card in the mail and said they were glad we enjoyed our stay! I totally was not expecting that, and it just shows how much they appreciate their customers :)

Lots of grounds to walk and an amazing assortment of species. Especially love the swampy bird area where you can observe the birds cage free though in a net. Still really cool. my favorite feature of the place.
There’s also lots of amazing art pieces and sculptures in the garden walk through.
A trolley brings you from one section to the next to save some miles on the feet.
Be ready to walk, take pics & have fun.
I would def. Come back here.