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.
Grounds Ticket
Explore the historic mountaintop at your own pace
Enjoy Monticello’s gardens and grounds at your own pace. Guests can tour the mountaintop and restored South Wing, Mulberry Row, and exhibit spaces under the house. They can also take advantage of the seasonal Garden Tour, daily Slavery at Monticello Tour, and get a picture of the iconic west view.
Note: While this ticket also includes access to the All-Weather Passage and Main House Cellars of Thomas Jefferson's home, it does not provide indoor admittance to the first, second, or third floor of the house.
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 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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![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 house tour of Monticello reveals how Jefferson and Adams became allies in revolution, bitter rivals in politics, and friends again in retirement.
