Untermyer Gardens



If you are looking for one of the most beautiful places in Westchester County, just head over to Untermyer Gardens in Yonkers!

Untermyer Gardens is a 43-acre public garden overlooking the Hudson River. It contains nine different gardens among all its acres. There is a walled garden that takes inspiration from the Indo-Persian gardens of antiquity, a vista that is modeled after a series of descending stairs at the Villa D’Este in Italy, color gardens that are a series of six terraced gardens each planted in a single color, a vegetable garden that was planted for the first time this year, a rhododendron walk that recalls the famous rhododendron collection that formed part of the original gardens, a ruin garden that is located in an old gatehouse that is meant to evoke a feeling of being in a ruined and abandoned house, a temple of love, which is described as a “rocky fantasy capped with a round temple” that also has small waterfalls, a rock and stream garden, and a sundial garden.

There are also going to be some tours there over the next few days. There will be a seasonal highlights garden tour on October 15 from 11:00 to 12:00. There will be another tour later that same day of the Woodlawn Cemetery mausoleum from 2:00 to 3:30. On October 22, there will be an Untermyer Gardens history tour that will cover the remnants of the color garden, the vegetable garden and orchard, the rhododendron walk and ruin garden, the carriage trail to the circular fountain and the temple of love and rock and stream garden, which will go from 11:00 to 12:15. There will be another Untermyer Gardens history tour on October 29 that will also go from 11:00 to 12:15, but this one will cover the walled garden, its lower terrace, and the vista to the columns at the bottom. Tickets for each tour are not super expensive, as both history tours and the seasonal highlights tour cost $12, while the mausoleum tour costs $30. 

So go ahead and visit a highlight of Westchester County!


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