Tour
Family Friendly Tour
These special guided 45-minute tours are uniquely designed for families with children ages 5 to 11.
Highlights Tour
The most popular way to see the house
This 45-minute guided experience includes first floor spaces in Thomas Jefferson’s home, the West Lawn, and the South Wing. You’ll learn about Jefferson and his vision for America, the realities of slavery on the Monticello plantation, and the mountaintop’s iconic architecture. This popular tour includes access to our gardens and grounds walking tour, family-friendly activities, and exhibits.
The Highlights Tour can sell out quickly - booking your tickets online, in advance is recommended.
Guests should plan to arrive at the visitor center 30 minutes prior to their tour start time to allow time to pass through a security screening and travel from the visitor center to the mountaintop.
You'll have access to: | |
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| -Free Parking | -The Shop at Monticello |
| -Free Wifi and Monticello Mobile Guide | -The Farm Shop on the Mountaintop |
| -Gardens and Grounds | -The Monticello Café |
Programs included with your ticket
Monticello Membership Program
Monticello is a nonprofit that depends on the support of visitors like you. Commemorate America's 250th with a Monticello Membership and enjoy year-round access, exclusive perks, and member-only benefits. Includes a free standard-rate house tour every time you visit!
Additional tours
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![A Monticello guide kneels next to a young visitor to show him a small object while his sister and parents look on.]()
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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.
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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.
