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The Rock Garden is a Sculpture garden in Chandigarh, also known as Nek Chand's Rock Garden after its founder Nek Chand, a government official who started the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957. Today it is spread over an area of forty-acres (160,000 m²), it is completely built of industrial & home waste and thrown-away items.
It is situated near Sukhna Lake. It consists of man-made interlinked waterfalls and many other sculptures that have been made of scrap & other kinds of wastes (bottles, glasses, bangles, tiles, ceramic pots, sinks, electrical waste, etc) which are placed in walled paths.

The Rock Garden is open daily.

Summer opening hours
(1st April to 30th September)
9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Winter opening hours
(1st October to 31st March)
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.






Sukhna Lake

Sector-1, Chandigarh, 160001