Tour
Highlights Tour
Our most popular tour. Explore Thomas Jefferson’s life, Monticello’s iconic architecture, and slavery on the plantation. Includes first floor rooms and outdoor spaces.
Gardens and Grounds Tour
Explore flower & vegetable gardens
- All Guests Included with Every Ticket
Explore Monticello's restored flower gardens, vegetable garden, and surrounding grounds. Learn about Jefferson's designs for the original landscape and hear stories about the free and enslaved people who helped realize his plans and maintain his gardens.
Reservations for this tour are not required.
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Additional Tourss
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![A multi-generational family of five looks up as guide points to a wall in Monticello's Entrance Hall that is covered with natural history specimens and maps.]()
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![Closeup of the bodies of two men in late 18th-century clothing, both pointing at a newspaper one of them is holding.]()
TourFounding Friends, Founding Foes Tour
This tour of Monticello reveals how Jefferson and Adams became allies in revolution, bitter rivals in politics, and friends again in retirement.
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![The names of people enslaved at Monticello cut into spaces in a corten steel wall so that they stand out from the light behind them.]()
TourFrom Slavery to Freedom
This guided, small-group tour focuses on Monticello's enslaved community and discusses the enduring legacies of slavery and freedom.
