📜 Approximately 50-foot long brick tunnel in Traverse City, Michigan, connecting the Botanic Garden's visitor center gift shop to a former hospital's subterranean root cellar.
🔍 Adorned with a handcrafted metal gate depicting agricultural use, with wheat shafts and flowers.

Why Go

✨ Discover historic features of former Traverse City State Hospital
🎨 See handcrafted metal gate depicting agricultural use
🚶 Explore a unique subterranean passage
🥕 Discover where root vegetables were stored for a former state hospital.
🌸 Learn about the site's past and its reincarnation as a botanical garden.
🗣️ Staff often provides informative tours and root cellar access.
🛍️ Gift shop offers unique items

Why Avoid

⚠️ Visitor Center and gift shop open seasonally, April-October

💡 Tips

🗣️ Staff can open root cellar entrance or give informative tours.
🗺️ Docent-led tours available April-October, self-guided audio tour year-round.
📞 Call (231) 935-4077 to schedule a tour.

💰 Cost No admission charge, donations appreciated.

🕒 Hours Gift Shop & Visitor Center: Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm, Sunday Closed. Grounds always open.

🅿️ Parking Located at Historic Barns Park.

🚻 Toilets Restrooms and drinking fountains available in the Visitor Center.