Open Daily: 10:00am - 4:00pm

The Morris Arboretum’s popular Garden Railway Display returns the day after Thanksgiving as the Holiday Garden Railway display.  Meticulously decorated for the holidays with lights that twinkle along the tracks and around the surrounding landscape, the Garden Railway Display will run November 25 through Saturday, December 31 daily 10am-4pm, (closed Christmas Eve and day, and New Years day).

Grand Opening Celebration

Saturday, November 26 from 1-3pm

A special Holiday Garden Railway Grand Opening Celebration will be held on Saturday, November 26 from 1-3pm that will include crafts and the sounds of carolers throughout the garden.

Hats off! to extended hours at Morris Arboretum this Holiday Season

Open until 5pm • December 17 - 31

Visitors can enjoy the magic of the Holiday Garden Railway for an extra hour, until 5pm from December 17 through December 31. The Holiday Garden Railway is especially enchanting with its thousands of twinkling lights set against the dusk of winter’s light.

A Holiday Hat Parade will be the kick off to the two week-extended hours visitation on Saturday December 17 at 4pm. Children and adults alike should come in their best cozy, festive hats and parade down to the Holiday Garden Railway from the Visitor’s Center. Flashlights welcome or you can buy one at The Shop at Morris Arboretum. Family traditions begin at Morris Arboretum.

Visitors of all ages will be wow-ed by a quarter mile of track featuring seven loops and tunnels with fifteen different rail lines and two cable cars, nine bridges (including a trestle bridge you can walk under), and bustling model trains, all set in the lovely winter garden of the Morris Arboretum. The display and buildings are all made of natural materials – bark, leaves, twigs, hollow logs, mosses, acorns, dried flowers, seeds and stones – to form a perfectly proportioned miniature landscape complete with miniature rivers. Each building, while an exact replica of the original, is unique in its design. Philadelphia-area landmarks such as a masterpiece replica of Independence Hall are made using pinecone seeds for shingles, acorns as finials and twigs as downspouts.

The Garden Railway Display has become one of the Arboretum’s most beloved attractions since it opened in 1998, and the Holiday Garden Railway is quickly becoming a favorite holiday tradition for many families.