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SOAR Tropical Butterfly Pavilion Opens at South Coast Botanic Garden Today!
May 1 @ 9:30 am – 4:30 pm PDT
The butterflies return May 1, 2024! 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!
Tickets are $6 for members and $23 for non-members which includes garden admission.
SOAR reservations run from 9:30am to 4:30pm daily through August 31st and must be booked in advance, each ticket allows 30 minutes in the pavilion at the designated time printed on ticket.
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.
