McKee Botanical Garden

McKee Botanical Garden in Vero Beach, Florida, preserves a remnant tropical hammock landscape near the Indian River within an 18-acre subtropical garden. Established in 1929 by Waldo E. Sexton and Arthur G. McKee on a larger tract, it was shaped with the guidance of Dr. David Fairchild and landscape architect William Lyman Phillips, who created streams, ponds, and trails among native and imported plants. Opened in 1932 as McKee Jungle Gardens, it prospered for decades before closing in 1976 and losing much of its land. Rescued in 1995, listed on the U.S. National Register in 1998, and dedicated in 2001, it endures as a revived historic Florida garden.

Vero Beach South, Florida · United States