We visited for several hours and enjoyed walking the various paths, and driving the road through the eastern part of the arboretum. The Maple Collection especially had some nice fall colors, and the path around the lake near the visitor center was very pretty. We had thought about renting bikes, but the price felt a bit exorbitant ($30 each for 2 hours) so we skipped that. The Vivid Creatures exhibit was cute, and fun for my son to find each of them and then do their scavenger hunt and get a sticker for a prize.

My husband and I love nature and this is one place we try to visit once a year during fall. We enjoyed the glass pumpkin exhibit and the vivid creatures sculptures this year. We also make sure to buy some cider donuts to eat on our way home! They have an area for children and we also enjoyed that despite our old age lol! This place is definitely for the whole family!

FOR RECIPROCAL PASS USERS: If you come here, expect hostility, challenges. I'd recommend going to Denada or Lyman. Even minus the attitude they're much prettier spaces and totally free. If you want something worth the money, go to the Botanic Gardens. The details: If the Arboretum carries so much contempt for reciprocal pass users then why bother participating in the program?Everytime I visit, which I will never do again, I dread going to the check-in booth, because I know I'm going to get attitude when they see my pass says Botanic Gardens. The first time I visited last year the lady refused to let my daughter in with my wife and I until I went in to the T's&C's to prove that my plan did allow it, and then she still acted like she was doing me a favor. Minus the consistent dirty looks and some attitude, I didn't run into issues the rest of the year until today, when again some cranky old man told me I had to pay for her despite the terms of the pass allowing it.I'm not doing this with y'all. It's not my job to educate your employees. If you hate the reciprocal program this much then don't participate. I live local and I won't be back, won't be donating, and won't be recommending.

I grew up going to Morton Arboretum on school field trips. Then later, as a teenager with a car, a small group of us would sometimes go to spend the afternoon hiking around. It was pretty cool to have a real forest right there in the middle of the Chicago suburbs. But the year after I moved out of my parent's house and moved into a place with 4 other guys, we decided to go to the Arboretum one Sunday afternoon. We arrived and everyone got out of the car and I suddenly had what must have been a panic attack. I couldn't keep up with the others so I went back to the car and just felt 'out of it' until that evening. I have never been able to go back to the Arboretum since that incident.

Spent the day here and had a great time. Make sure to explore the gorgeous areas near the visitor's center and then spend a few hours walking along the well kept up and marked trails.