Welcome to Elizabeth Park
Elizabeth Park is on the national register of historic places. Elizabeth Park offers just over one hundred acres of formal gardens, green space, recreational facilities, walking loops, and the Pond House Café. Come enjoy the beauty of the gardens and grounds. Bring your camera!
What to do here
Visitors can enjoy the formal gardens, green spaces, picnic areas, and recreational facilities in Elizabeth Park. Also, at various times throughout the year, the Elizabeth Park Conservancy presents special events, outdoor concerts, tours, lectures and garden workshops in the Park—many of them free to the public. Dining is available at the Pond House Café.
How to get here
Elizabeth Park has several entrances: one on Prospect Avenue and another on Asylum Avenue near the Hartford-West Hartford line. The address of the Elizabeth Park Conservancy is 1561 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT. Click below for directions.
Visiting hours
Elizabeth Park is open 365 days of the year, dawn to dusk, and is FREE to the public. There are no admission fees.
Support The Elizabeth Park Conservancy
The Elizabeth Park Conservancy is a nonprofit group that partners with the City of Hartford in, and contributes significantly to, the maintenance, preservation, and improvement of Elizabeth Park, with the Helen S Kaman Rose Garden as the centerpiece of these efforts. As a nonprofit, the Conservancy welcomes and relies on your support.
Upcoming Events
Greenhouse Train Show
Greenhouse Train Show
Celebrate the holiday season at the Elizabeth Park Conservancy's first-ever Greenhouse Train Show in the Sweetland-Patricelli Greenhouse Complex in Elizabeth Park!
Poinsettia Sale
Poinsettia Sale
Join us for a poinsettia sale in the Sweetland-Patricelli Greenhouse Complex following the Train Show.
Blooms from June to October
Blooms from July to October
Blooms early to mid-June
Scenic View
Peaks in late May; continues blooming into September
Blooms from early Spring to late Summer
June to September; peaks in late August
Tulips in early Spring
Blooms in Summer
Blooms from June to October
Blooms from July to October
Blooms early to mid-June
Scenic View
Peaks in late May; continues blooming into September
Blooms from early Spring to late Summer
June to September; peaks in late August
Tulips in early Spring
Blooms in Summer