San Antonio Botanical Garden

About

San Antonio Botanical Garden is a 38-acre public garden on the northeast corner of Funston Place and North New Braunfels Avenue, just northeast of downtown San Antonio. The grounds combine formal display gardens, a native Texas landscape, family spaces, and the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, a glasshouse complex that opened in 1988 with separate pyramidal, partly earth-sheltered structures for desert and tropical plant collections.

Most visits run two to four hours, enough time to walk the main garden loop and step inside a few conservatory houses. The Sensory Garden adds a stop built around touch and scent, with braille signage and bronze and ceramic sculptures visitors can handle. The Garden also runs classes, seasonal exhibits, and group tours that can be booked ahead.

As of 2026, the Garden is open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends from March through November, with an early members-only hour starting at 7 a.m. Standard adult admission is $18 on weekdays and $22 on weekends; children ages 3 to 13 pay $13 to $15, and children under 3 get in free. The Garden also sells flex tickets that skip the date restriction, and admission is free for members.

Parking on site is free but limited; Lot A sits closest to the admissions kiosk and main entrance. The Garden asks guests to carpool or use rideshare on weekends and major holidays when the lots fill. Reaching the site from Highway 281 means exiting at Hildebrand, turning onto Broadway, then left onto Funston Place.

Accessibility

San Antonio Botanical Garden is wheelchair accessible for most of the grounds, though a few areas have limits the Garden does not fully document. The Garden's own access page describes ADA accessible pathways throughout and says wheelchairs and mobility scooters are welcome everywhere except where bikes and other wheeled recreational devices are barred.

Parking is free and on site, with Lot A closest to the admissions kiosk and main entrance; the Garden does not publish which spaces, if any, are marked accessible. Once inside, the main paths are paved.

The Garden loans manual wheelchairs at no charge. Several visitors who called ahead confirmed the Garden does not stock motorized wheelchairs or scooters for rent, so guests who need a powered chair should bring their own. Service animals are allowed. The Sensory Garden includes braille signage alongside bronze and ceramic sculptures meant to be touched.

For groups, the Nature Navigator program can arrange a shuttle with a wheelchair lift, seating up to 24 riders or 20 when configured for two wheelchair users, along with free admission and programming for qualifying community groups in Bexar County and nearby areas.

The Garden does not publish information on accessible restrooms, elevators, door widths, curb cuts, sign language services, assistive listening, captioning, or sensory-friendly hours. Visitors who need those details should call ahead at (210) 536-1400 or reach the Community Access Coordinator, Olivia Predmore, at [email protected] before planning a visit around them.

Checked by Accessible America, August 2026. Report a change

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• Morgan's Wonderland (San Antonio)
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• Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston)
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Photo credits

• A glass pyramid conservatory rises above lawns, cactus beds and the city skyline.: Jouaienttoi, CC BY-SA 4.0 (source)
• A paved path leads through palms toward the garden's glass pyramid conservatory.: Zereshk, CC BY 2.5 (source)
• Clouds streak the sky over the glass pyramid conservatory at the botanical garden.: Corey Leopold, CC BY 2.0 (source)