Help Us Protect Our Animals

Animals living in the Tropical Conservatory roam free, unimpeded by cages. Oils and bacteria carried on human hands can stress the animals, shortening their lifespan. By not touching the animals, visitors help keep them safe and healthy.


Tropical Conservatory
Explore our 7,000 square-foot tropical rainforest, home to more than 1,200 live butterflies and over 200 plant species from around the world. Witness butterflies emerging from their chrysalids and watch us release them into their rainforest habitat during our Butterfly Encounters.
  • Wings of the Tropics is a habitat for tropical butterflies, but other creatures, such as fish, turtles and hermit crabs, make their home there.
  • The climate in our rainforest is consistently kept warm and moist, just like the native environments of our tropical butterflies.
  • The Butterfly Pavilion purchases about 500 butterfly chrysalids each week from butterfly farms located in rainforests around the globe, contributing over $80,000 annually to sustainable farming operations in endangered ecosystems!
View Colorado native and tropical butterflies living in our conservatory.

View tropical plants living in our Tropical Conservatory.

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If it creeps, crawls, slithers, flies, wiggles or squirms, chances are you'll find it here. Come for the butterflies, then stay for the spiders, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and walking sticks. Love to learn? We also offer youth education programming, volunteer opportunities and lifelong learning. Only 15 minutes from downtown Denver. Butterflies are just the beginning.

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