Hey, I'm Ranger Jenny. Welcome to the White House! Let's go for a tour.
Each year since 1972
we've opened the grounds of the White House to tours in the spring and the fall and we welcome all Americans from across the country
to come see this iconic American landscape. The National Park Service has cared for the White House and its grounds since
1933 and it officially became part of the National Park system in 1961.
Since the 1870s every president and first lady has planted commemorative trees on the South Lawn including First Lady Melania Trump in
August of 2018.
This is a place you probably know. This is the Rose Garden at the White House.
It was originally built in 1913 but redesigned by President Kennedy in the
1960s. Today it's host to all sorts of historic events and formal announcements by the president.
Every year the kitchen garden grows over a thousand pounds of food.
Some of that food is used in state dinners and official events at the White House and a good bit of it is
donated to a local nonprofit.
One thing I think is really cool is that the south grounds were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
He's one of the most famous landscape architects of the 1900s. He designed this
so it was more rural-like, more pastoral. You see rolling hills throughout the south grounds and it gives you a different perspective
when you're right here in the middle of our nation's capital.