International Peace Garden

The International Peace Garden consist of 1,451 acres (586 hectares) of park in Canada and an adjoining 888 acres (360 hectares) in North Dakota. This beautiful friendship park and botanical garden is set among the lakes and streams of the wooded Turtle Mountains along the world's longest unfortified border.

Center of the attraction include the Peace Tower, the Peace Chapel, more than 150,000 annual flowers, a floral clock, the Carillon Bell Tower, which chimes every 15 minutes, and a memorial cairn constructed of steel salvaged from the destruction of the World Trade center, commemorating the tragic events of September 11, 2001.

International Peace Garden - International Peace Garden is located on the Canadian/American border near Boissevain, Manitoba/Dunseith, North Dakota. The garden is open year-around with the exception of the week between Christmas & New Years.

Visitors are free to roam within the garden from one country to the other and they can enter through your respective port of entry. Admission is required to enter park. Because visitors will depart through customs they will need a Passport or government-issued ID with copy of birth certificate.
Preferred Documents: Passport or Nexus Card | Acceptable: Driver’s License with Birth Certificate | For Minors: Birth Certificate

The Peace Garden is more than flowers, summer camps and camping. It is dedicated to peace and home to informative sites such as our Conservatory, Interpretive Centre, North American Game Warden Museum and Peace Chapel. It is an amazing place for family gatherings, great meals and creating lasting memories.

Did You Know?

While there are more than 200 structures within the boundaries of the Peace Garden, the only building on the Canadian side of the garden is the Willis Pavilion, built in 1967 as part of the Canadian Centennial Project.

Noted for exquisite landscaping, the garden features a unique 5.5 m/18 ft working Floral Clock with nearly 3,000 flowers, run by GPS. Floral Clock was donated by Bulova in 1964, the clock is a duplicate of the original Bulova Floral Clock in Berne, Switzerland.

The Peace Chapel, built in 1968, features three walls of fossil-embellished Manitoba limestone that includes imported French colored glass panels, with inscribed quotations from international leaders.

The September 11 Memorial displays 10 beams from the World Trade Center in the formal garden.

The International Peace Tower's height, 35 m/120 ft high, symbolizes the soaring ambitions of the early immigrants arriving from the four corners of the world to Canada and the United States in the 1800's and 1900's. The Carillon Bell Tower sounds every quarter-hour from 14 chimes.

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