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Butterfly Day 2026

🦋Join us to celebrate the return of the monarchs, as they migrate up from the south!
🗓️Sunday May 24, 2026
🕰️ 1 – 4 pm

🏫 Visit the Griffith Depot & Train Museums (everything will be open to view!) and enjoy our Monarch Waystation garden!
🚂 Our barrel train, the Hess Express, will be running 🚃
🦋Learn about Monarchs, their amazing migration, & how they’ve become endangered. Jeanette Bobos, the retired Master Gardner who planted our garden, will be on on hand to share her knowledge.
🐝Learn about adding native plants to your garden.
🌻Buy plants that help butterflies, especially monarchs! We’ll have a small selection of milkweed plants & other native plants.

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Monarch Waystation:🚉Griffith Junction Butterfly Stop! 🦋

Introducing our new Monarch Waystation:
🚉Griffith Junction Butterfly Stop! 🦋

We are so grateful to the Lake County Master Gardeners for the financial support and to the Griffith Tri Kappa members for creating and maintaining this absolutely lovely and meaningful addition to our Historical Park, which not only beautifies our park for us and our human visitors, but for an amazing array of pollinators and other winged visitors!

Whether you’re biking or driving by, stop by the Griffith Historical Park to have a seat in the shade, play a game of checkers, and watch the trains and butterflies!