Roozengaarde — Attraction in Mount Vernon

Roozengaarde is the 2nd tulip farm we visited this year during tulip season in Skagit Valley, and I think this is the better one if you’re looking for BIG fields of tulips… Be prepared for long lines on single lane roads. 🚗 🚙 🚗

The farm does not allow dogs or drones.

There’s free parking across the street from the tulip farm in a huge lot. The line was quite long so we opted to pay $10 (cash only) to park in the fire department’s lot just down the street and walk to the farm. It was worth it, but be sure to wear comfortable shoes.

At the gate, there’s two lanes for entry: the left side = online tickets & cash pay, the right side = credit card payments. If you queue up in the correct lane, it will save some time. (The cash lane moves the quickest.) There are also plenty of port-a-potty bathrooms.

After paying, start your tour on the RIGHT side of the farm and wind through the planted gardens and take some photos before heading out to the tulip fields. (Entrance is to the left of the food court area.) Once you go the through the fields, you’ll loop back around to the left side of the planted gardens and exit the farm from that side too.

This farm has huge fields of tulips and the most color varieties. There are also many specialty hybrid tulips you’ll see in the planted gardens - use the bulb catalog (available at entrance) to identify the variety.

Cut flowers, bulbs and other merchandise can be purchased at the gift shop in the white building near the front of the farm.

I recommend buying tickets online or paying cash - we went on a Sunday morning around 11:30 am and the crowd wasn’t too bad, but it was also towards the end of the growing season. It probably is much busier at the start of the season, in early April.

We enjoyed our visit here and will definitely visit this farm again in the future. 💐

🔥TIP: It can be a bit chilly, so bring a sweat shirt or jacket… Other “nice to have” things you can throw in a backpack: hand sanitizer, sunglasses, healthy snacks/water, tissues, rain coat or umbrella, camera, and power bank for your phone. (If it’s been rainy, boots are a good idea because fields will be muddy.)

And a bit of mom advice: take allergy medicine before you leave home… there’s lots of pollen...

It was great. I’m glad I purchased our tickets online in advance cuz the line was crazy. Parking was crazy. I mean, wow. I understand it’s a lot of people. (And no one that hasn’t been there could ever understand what an understatement that is) but I think if the traffic controllers were better trained, things would go quicker and smoother. It was a mess. Then, despite there being lots of empty spots nearer to the gardens, they have people standing in the rows so you have to drive to the back. There are no signs so we kept driving around and ended up driving through the parking and forced to go back to the road where the attendant would not let us go back to park but made us turn right. He could have easily stopped traffic from the right to let us in but refused. 🤷‍♀️ Perhaps figuring out a shuttle system would be good business for the future? Maybe someone from Roozengarde should visit Keukenhof in the Netherlands for tips. That was a slick and easy process when we visited last year. Now, as to the gardens themselves, EXCELLENT. Not a thing bad to say except a nod to the absolute abhorrent behavior of a LOT of guests. The one rule is don’t go into the tulips. One. That’s all. DON’T GO INTO THE TULIPS! It’s amazing how hard that is for so many people regardless of language. 🙄 But kudos to the folks in orange vests running hither and yon, chasing the fools out of the flowers. They deserve a raise.

The fields are so beautiful. Absolutely stunning. The whole reason we came was for the tulip fields. We didn’t get to see them last year in Amsterdam and that is all my husband wanted to see. Roozengarde is an excellent place to see them. It was magical. The people are friendly and welcoming, the designed flower beds are gorgeous, the food smelled wonderful but the line was crazy. The shop tent was awesome. Hubby bought me flowers for our room. They are the most beautiful bunch of tulips we’ve ever purchased. I’m actually thinking of taking them home but we shall see how they look next week. We didn’t use the porto loos but there were many. There is also a wonderful amount of grass that a lot of people were making good use of. So many folks sitting around, enjoying the beautiful day. It was like being in a...

I'm very torn over leaving this review because the actual tulips are spectacular. The fields and gardens are gorgeous and worth the price of admission during the Tulip Festival. But I cannot recommend ANYONE ever consider going on a weekend. It's a logistical nightmare and is absolutely not worth the time and frustration. There is also zero communication whatsoever from the gardens themselves about current waiting times or crowd saturation anywhere.

Roozengaarde had 3 hour long traffic jams that clog all the surrounding roads and access to other participating gardens in the festival. Locals who live along the roads were offering people waiting to park on their lawns for $10+ dollars to avoid the 4 mile traffic jam. "Official" Parking is limited and they had a ton of staff to guide cars, but the guides themselves had very little idea what they were doing which was contributing to the catastrophic amount of traffic. They would guide cars seemingly at random and with little communication. Once you're parked there's still a huge queue to get into the fields itself, and the ticket lines don't actually make any sense and the signage is pointless. Staff also don't make it clear that you need 1 ticket barcode "per group" until they've already scanned multiple people which apparently causes issues with their devices? I don't understand. We ended up getting caught in a 2.5 hour vehicle queue to get to parking, 20 minutes in line to get in, and another hour waiting in traffic to get back on the highway.

The tulips are beautiful but absolutely NOT worth it! Save yourself the trip or go early...