New London County Park Makes 'Most Stunning' Botanical Gardens List

WATERFORD, CT — If you're looking for one of the most beautiful botanical gardens in the United States, you don't have to travel out of New London County. Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford made a recent list of the country's "most stunning" botanical gardens.

Pergola and pavilion designers at Pergola Kits USA, analyzed the number of Tripadvisor reviews that contained positive descriptors, such as "stunning," "beautiful," "breathtaking," and "gorgeous" across 260 botanical gardens in the US.

Each botanical garden was ranked based on the percentage of reviews containing these beauty keywords.

Harkness Memorial State Park came in fourth with 75.86% of Tripadvisor reviews referencing the beauty of this botanical garden.

The website had this to say: "Harkness Memorial State Park charms with a Renaissance mansion, which was built in 1906, beautiful gardens and scenic trails, offering historical charm and 230 acres of natural wonder to explore."

Here's the full top 10:

1. Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park in Tallahassee, Florida
2. Blue Spring Heritage Center in Eureka Springs, Arkansas
3. Fellows Riverside Gardens in Youngtown, Ohio
4. Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford, Connecticut
5. Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, Arkansas
6. Hershey Gardens in Hershey, Pennsylvania
7. Bellingrath Gardens and Home in Theodore, Alabama
8. Filoli in Woodside, California
9. Cape Fear Botanical Garden in Fayetteville, North Carolina
10. Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in Belmont, North Carolina