SOAR – Tropical Butterflies

The butterflies are back! Immerse yourself amid hundreds of tropical butterflies as we celebrate our 4th year of SOAR!
This popular exhibit features hundreds of tropical butterflies that you wouldn’t normally see in Southern California. Your journey begins as you step into the Host and Nectar Garden and wander through beautiful plant species that are part of a butterfly’s habitat. Next, you’ll stop by our Emergence Chamber where you may just see a butterfly emerge from its pupa! Next, you’ll enter the pavilion where you will have an up-close-and-personal experience with the hundreds of butterflies flying throughout the exhibit. While the pavilion provides many photo-worthy moments, there will be additional photo opportunities outside of the pavilion as part of SOAR. Once your SOAR experience is complete, you can continue to awaken your senses with Bloom!

Butterfly Feeding Experience
Want an even more unique experience? Guests will again have the opportunity to feed our butterflies! Purchase the Butterfly Feeding Experience for an additional $6 and you can use a flower vial filled with nectar to use while inside the pavilion to help entice butterflies to come close to you for the optimum and most immersive experience. There will be one vial per Butterfly Feeding Experience ticket holder, which is returned at the end of the experience.

Photo Pass Wednesdays
We will be offering a SOAR Photo Pass ticket from 10 to 11 a.m. on the last Wednesday of every month throughout the exhibit’s run. This ticket will allow you to bring in additional camera equipment and allow more time in the pavilion to guarantee you get “the shot.”

Location:

South Coast Botanic Garden
26300 Crenshaw Boulevard
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274