Welcome to Northern Lights!
You've reserved your Northern Lights tickets, now it's time to plan your visit. Keep scrolling to see what the Arboretum has to offer at this one-of-a-kind experience.
Free Arboretum Parking
Please have your admission tickets with barcodes ready for the gatehouse attendant. Print out your tickets from your email or display them on your smartphone (screenshots do not scan well). After passing through the gatehouse, park in the main visitor parking lots. The first row is reserved for accessible parking.
Helpful Locations On-site
- Oswald Visitor Center: Warm up indoors and find information, restrooms, two art galleries and food and beverage options.
- Gift & Garden Store: Open for holiday shopping on the first floor of the Oswald Visitor Center.
- Rootstock Cafe: Open 4:30-8:30 p.m. on the second floor of the Oswald Visitor Center.
- Snyder Building: Check out the tropical Conservatory, additional restrooms, Skol Square and more!
Start your visit with a hot drink, specialty cocktail or a seasonal snack-to-go at Skol Square in the Snyder Building. Warm up with hot cocoa, s'mores and more at the Warming Hut about halfway through the route, and finish your night with cozy, hearty Midwestern comfort food at Radiant Rootstock, where the menu includes favorites like homestyle cottage pie, creamy vegetable hotdish, turkey wild rice soup, classic chili and porketta sandwiches.
Not up for the full outdoor route? Relax indoors with a cup of hot cocoa at Skol Square or Lantern Lodge in the Snyder Building or at Radiant Rootstock in the Oswald Visitor Center while you wait for the rest of your group.
Please note Rootstock will be open from 4:30-8:30 p.m. and Skol Square and the Warming Hut will be open from 4:30-9 p.m.
Rootstock Northern Lights Menu
Full menu coming soon!