Meijer Gardens Makes National Winter List

If winter in Michigan were a personality, it would be gray, aggressive, and fully committed to ruining your mood by 4:47 PM. That’s why this feels personal. Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids has been named one of the top seven botanical gardens in the entire country to visit in the winter. Yes, winter. The season we usually just try to survive.

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Why Meijer Gardens Stands Out in Winter

According to RT Fence’s new study analyzing thousands of TripAdvisor reviews, the Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park landed in lucky number seven with more than half of its reviews using words like beautiful, stunning, and breathtaking, which is impressive considering those reviews were written by people who willingly left their homes in Michigan between November and January.

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