New Jersey is well known for its flower festivals, and one mega fest ranked No. 1 on a national list of tulip festivals.
Car rental company SIXT studied the best tulip festivals in the country, and obvi named Holland Ridge Farms in Cream Ridge the best. There are 8 million tulips of varying colors (and 100 different varieties) planted every season on the 300-acre farm. The bulbs come directly from Holland!
Aside from the gorgeous photo ops, when you visit during April and May, there will be food trucks, farm animals, a feeding zoo, a picnic area, pony rides, a tractor-pulled hayride, Dutch souvenirs, a bakery, a tulip planting museum, and of course, u-pick flowers.
Although opening day for the festival hasn’t been announced, Holland Ridge has teased some of this year’s activities. A direct-from-Holland 100-foot-tall windmill will be unveiled this year and will be open to visitors for $10 per person.
The farmers and makers markets will be set up every weekend. Dog & Ram Distillery will serve floral-themed cocktails on the weekends, in addition to mocktails and gourmet soda.
You can ride around the farm in a chauffeur-driven gator to get a more up-close-and-personal experience. Rentals are for up to four people, can be rented any day of the week, and cost $150 for 1 hour 45 minutes. Returning this year is a bus service from Port Authority in NYC to the farm on the weekends.
There are other perks the farm offers, too. You can order and ship tulip boxes across the country. There’s new merch this year, including tees, sweatshirts and hats to show off your “happy place.” And you can book an 8-day tour package to Holland through a partnership with Holland Ridge.
Holland Ridge is open throughout the year, with u-pick sunflowers during the Fall Festival and a new Winter Wonderland around the holidays.
According to SIXT, there have been 1,300 internet searches over the past month for Holland Ridge, in addition to 558,000 views on TikTok! Using Google Trends, SIXT analyzed search terms related to local tulip festivals, examined Country Living’s list of the best tulip festivals in the country, and then formulated rankings based on Google searches, TikTok views, and the number of tulips at the event, with data accurate as of March 5.
The Top 15 Tulip Festivals in the U.S., According to SIXT:
- Holland Ridge Farms U-Pick Tulip Fest, Cream Ridge, NJ
- Texas Tulips, Pilot Point, TX
- Tulip Time Festival, Holland, MI
- Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival, Woodburn, OR
- Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, Mount Vernon, WA
- Festival of Spring, Nokesville, VA
- Tulip Mania, Amesbury, MA
- Fun Farm Tulip Festival, Kearney, MO
- Yule Forest Tulip Festival, Stockbridge, GA
- Waterdrinker’s Annual Tulip Festival, Long Island, NY
- Tulip Time, Pella, IA
- Thanksgiving Point’s Annual Tulip Festival, Thanksgiving Point, UT
- Albany Tulip Festival, Albany, NY
- Orange City Tulip Festival, Orange City, IA
- Tulip Festival, Wamego, KS
If you want to see more tulips, you can check out other beautiful farms in New Jersey, including Dalton Farms in Swedesboro, Johnson’s Corner Farm in Medford, and Snyders Farm in Somerset.
There are more flower festivals taking place this season as well. Branch Brook Park in Newark and Belleville celebrates its gigantic cherry blossom orchards with sporting events and festivals April 5-6 and 12-23. Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit has its Daffodil Day Festival on April 13 following Daffodil Days from April 1-15. There is an Azalea Festival in Hamilton Twp. on May 10 for Mother’s Day.
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