Visit the Arboretum: Hours and Directions

8909 W. 179th St. (view map)
(just west of Antioch)
913/685-3604

Open seven days a week
8 a.m.-7:30 p.m., April 10-Sept. 30
8 a.m.-5 p.m., Oct. 1-April 9
Closed Christmas Day
(May close for inclement weather)

CONCESSIONS  The Garden Cafe, which opened Spring, 2010 at the Visitor's Center, offers fruit, candy, chips, and cookies, lemon bars, chocolate raspberry bars, babycakes and fruit scones (Provided by 3 Women and an Oven). Coffee, bottled water and soda are also available.

• No bicycles, skateboards, skates, scooters or motorized vehicles allowed on the trails. Wheelchairs are allowed.
• Dogs must be kept on a leash and waste removed. Dogs are restricted to the wood chip paths or the black asphalt loop around the picnic shelter. Dogs are not allowed on garden walkways.
• Fires permitted in permanent grills only.
• Alcoholic beverages prohibited.
• No plants, animals or insects may be collected or removed from the Arboretum.
• Please do not climb on rocks or in trees.
• Visitors are not allowed to remain in or enter the Arboretum after closing.
• Photography/Filming by permit only. Permits available online at www.opkansas.org

The Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens requires all portrait photography to obtain a permit and schedule the photo shoot.   The policy applies to all amateur and professionals engaged in portrait photography at the OPABG.  Nature photography does not require a permit, as long as there are no people in the photos. Photography Rules (download.pdf)

The Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens is a lovely place for a wedding or a family picnic.  Weddings can be held at the Lakeside Amphitheater.  Small weddings can be held in several gardens.  Our Pavilion picnic shelter can accommodate up to 50 people. Rental Fees

Friends of the Arboretum (FOTA) Volunteers assist with Weddings at the OPABG.  The volunteers are Wedding Administrators.  Wedding permits are obtained from Leisure Services of the City of Overland Park, please contact Leisure Services at 895-6390 or online at: www.opkansas.org

When the permit is received from the city a call is made to the permit holder to explain the Wedding Administrator Program, which is to coordinate and oversee the wedding activities as they may affect the facility and insurance compliance with all applicable rules and regulations.  For this service there is a fee payable to the Friends of the Arboretum.