Get ready to awaken your senses at the South Coast Botanic Garden this spring with the return of the ever-popular Soar and hundreds of tropical butterflies.

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Welcome Back Soar – Tropical Butterflies

Returning for the 6th year to South Coast Botanic Garden is Soar. This incredible exhibit features hundreds of tropical butterflies that you wouldn’t normally see in Southern California. Explore the Host and Nectar Garden where you can discover the beautiful plant species that are part of a butterfly’s habitat. Learn about how butterflies grow in the Emergence Chamber. Finally, visit the pavilion where you will have an up-close-and-personal experience with the hundreds of butterflies flying around you.

While you’re visiting don’t miss Thomas Dandbo’s TROLLS: A Field Study, another beloved exhibit making its return for 2026.

New “Lollipop” Butterfly Feeding Experience

For a truly one-of-a-kind experience, check out the Butterfly Feeding Experience. New for 2026, when you add on the Butterfly Feeding Experience for an additional $6, you will be given a “lollipop” 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 lollipop per Butterfly Feeding Experience ticket holder, which is returned at the end of the experience.

Visiting South Coast Botanic Garden

Soar – Tropical Butterflies is open May 1 – September 30, 2026. Soar is a ticketed event that must be reserved in advance. Regular adult tickets are $27, kids ages 3-12 are $17, students and seniors are $23, and ages 2 and under are free. Member admission is $7 per person ages 3 and up.

South Coast Botanic Garden
Open daily 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (last entrance allowed at 4:30 PM)
26300 Crenshaw Boulevard
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
Tel: (424) 452-0920
southcoastbotanicgarden.org

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