Butterfly Pavilion is located at:

6252 West 104th Ave.
Westminster, CO 80020
Voice: 303-469-5441
Website: www.butterflies.org
E-mail: kdelashmit@butterflies.org

At the Butterfly Pavilion, there are more adventures than you can imagine. Explore the tropical rainforest’s winding paths where over 1,200 butterflies flutter around you.

Hold a friendly tarantula in the palm of your hand. Discover what lurks in your very own backyard on a colossal scale. As the nation’s first stand-alone non-profit insect zoo, the Butterfly Pavilion is the ideal place to see and interact with exotic live invertebrates from around the globe.

It’s where science, fun and education come together. Wings over the Tropics Explore our lush tropical conservatory, home to more than 1,200 live butterflies from around the world. Witness butterflies emerging from their chrysalides and join in releasing them into the rainforest.

Check out the Crawl-A-See-Em. Get eye-to-eye with tarantulas, leaf insects, scorpions, beetles, giants millipedes, and many more. Try the petting tank at the Water’s Edge! Touch live sea stars and other aquatic invertebrates from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

Shrunk! Experience this eye-popping new exhibit with giant animatronic insects that actually move!