Butterfly House

at Miller Nature Preserve

Open Daily 11 am-3:30 pm | Father’s Day to Labor Day FREE admission

More than 12,500 visitors stop by the Butterfly House at Miller Nature Preserve each year. This free attraction has allowed guests to get close to these spectacular pollinators for 11 years. We invite you to come see these temporary residents flitting around, sunning themselves, feeding on a flower, or chasing another around playfully.

Visitors can see butterfly species from within the United States including: buckeye, cabbage white, monarch, painted lady, red admiral, swallowtails (pipevine, queen, spicebush, tiger), and viceroy. However, some tropical species can also be found including: great southern white, julia, queen, white peacock, and zebra longwing. In recent years the house has also seen unique residents like the malachite butterfly, a light pastel green species, and the atala, a hairstreak butterfly in bright red and iridescent blue.

Butterfly Buddies Donation Program For The Butterfly House

Miller Nature Preserve is fluttering with excitement! Not only are we getting a new butterfly house, but there is an excellent opportunity for you to get involved. Becoming a “Butterfly Buddy” gets you some cool stuff AND recognizes you as a donor helper for the butterflies in the year 2021. For a $10 donation, donors will receive a wooden ornament to decorate, a “Butterfly Buddy” button, stickers, butterfly gardening information, a ticket to redeem for feeding the butterflies, crafts, activities, plus more! Your ornament will join those of other donors to hang in the entryway of the all-new Butterfly House. This ornament can be collected at the season’s end for you to keep.

Schoepfle Garden Carousel

Schoepfle Garden, Birmingham

May-Sept.: Open Wed. & Sat. | 1-4 pm

The Carousel also runs on Fridays (10 am-12 pm) in June-August.

Free rides on the carousel located inside the Children’s Garden!