Idaho's Largest Butterfly House!

Admission & Hours

Family looking at butterflies

Admission

Caterpillar on leaf

Hours

    May 7 days a week 11-4 June, July, August Monday-Saturday 10-5 Sunday 11-4 September 7 days a week 11-4
Small waterfall water feature

Season

Closed for the 2024 Season! We plan to reopen for the 2025 season on April 25, 2025.

About the Butterflies

These are just some of the butterflies you'll see while visiting The Butterfly Haven

  • Monarch
  • Queen
  • Red Admiral
  • Mourning Cloak
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Giant Swallowtail
  • Polydamas Swallowtail
  • Weidemeyer's Admiral
  • Milbert's Tortoiseshell
  • Lorquin's Admiral
  • Common Buckeye
  • Orange Barred Sulphur
  • Spicebush Swallowtail
  • Palamedes Swallowtail
  • Cloudless Sulphur
  • Black Swallowtail
  • Painted Lady
  • American Lady
  • Common Wood Nymph
  • White Peacock
  • Zebra Long Wing Heliconian
  • Julia Heliconian
  • Malachite
  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Viceroy

Events

Father's Day Weekend (June 15-16th) Dad's admission is $6 with any regular paid admission


Birthday Parties

Cupcake and butterfly
Birthday cake and butterfly

The Butterfly Haven is a perfect place for a unique birthday party experience. Come enjoy your birthday with our butterflies, caterpillars and birds. Make your birthday a unique experience learning about the queen bee in our observation beehive, the life cycle of the butterfly, and see how many different butterflies you can find. You get to spend as much time in the butterfly house and then enjoy cake or cupcakes by antique farm equipment. Please call for pricing and details.

About Us

The Butterfly Haven started as a dream for us about 15 years ago. We have grown tomatoes and fresh herbs in our greenhouses for 31 years supplying grocery store chains in the intermountain region. We were not using all of our greenhouse space and decided to turn our dream into reality. Butterflies are important in our world. Butterflies and bees are necessary to pollinate about 75% of the flowering plants. But butterflies are slowly declining because of all of the pesticides we apply to get rid of bugs we don’t want. We hope you will come and enjoy a visit among the Idaho butterflies supported by their host and nectar plants. Listen to the murmur of the waterfall and the song of the canaries. We hope your visit will encourage you to support the need to protect and cultivate butterflies in our communities. Learn about host plants to support the caterpillars and nectar plants to feed the butterflies in your own neighborhood. We are a family owned and operated business. We raised our four children here and our two daughters are still an integral part of our business. Say “hi” to Sarah and Susannah when you see them! ~ Randy & Karen