Gabis Arboretum at Purdue Northwest — Attraction in Valparaiso

While very beautiful, I would strongly recommend NOT booking the pavilion if you need your cred card or cash deposit back in a reasonable time, and are also concerned about giving out your SSN to anyone other than the IRS or risk ID theft for no legal reason.

I booked the pavilion for a bridal shower via credit card, and they played games dragging out my refund for almost 3 months. I have emails/doc to prove it.

Purdue demanded a w9/my SSN to refund and then played games for months when I refused. Purdue tech school cannot automate a refund or write a manual check for 3 months? It’s obviously a penalty for not cooperating with an illegal process.

When I refused, a few weeks later I received a refund check made out to the PARTY HONOREE (whoops! not cashable!) instead of the person they were talking to/charged credit card. After a week of no response and 'having to discuss it again with Purdue', they refused writing a check to me without sending back the original. Glad I didn't shred it or I would never get my refund? That game took 2 more weeks.

Very unprofessional. I'm sorry I had to write this, but I have to stop them from playing more people for fools. Make sure they have their act together...

Beautiful land with nicely-groomed trails. My only concern is that the trails would often have multiple forks in the road without any markings. I wasn't sure which path was the one I wanted to stay on. Otherwise I liked the swampy areas. Saw a couple of Herons and lots of frogs! Of course, carry plenty of bug spray or whatever you use for the bugs. Can't stop walking for too long or they'll eat you alive. The information house and the train set were nice. Great diaramas depicting Illinois' history. Especially loved the scene with the train that transported Lincoln's body back to Illinois after his assassination. There were a pair of beautiful American Goldfinches bathing in a stream of the set, which was awesome to see. I'd recommend a visit. Maybe in the Autumn when the leaves are changing and the bugs are...

Place is a scam. Worst place to have a wedding. Wasnt happy with the wedding coordinator and all the changes they kept making so cancled one year and half in advance..yet they still kept our money and said if they book our date we will get a full refund..but every attempt to see if our date has been booked has been a run around. Once we finally got ahold of someone they said we are still booked for that day. The manager even told us he was going to push others for our date so we would be refunded. YET OUR NAMES ARE STILL BOOKED ON THAT DAY. Do yourself a favor look anywhere but here. Coming from a young couple who are struggling to get by yet a million dollar company thinks its okay to rip us off. Luckly having a family member work at channels 7 news (abc) is investigating and will bring truth from a...