FREE with regular zoo admission

New this year! Experience Bloomin' Butterfly Gardens in living color this spring at Knoxville Zoo. This one-of-a-kind experience allows you to immerse yourself in a flurry of butterfly kisses as these flying flowers get in your face! 

Hundreds and hundreds of butterflies will fill the exhibit allowing you to be touched by these magical creatures. The exhibit will feature hundreds of butterflies; lovely garden pathways and a unique opportunity to have these flying flowers sit gently on your shoulder.

The butterflies featured in the Bloomin' Butterfly Gardens exhibit at Knoxville Zoo are North American butterflies. The exhibit was built by the experts at Spineless Wonders and is presented by WBIR-TV 10 and the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Come meet some scallopwing, sicklewing, and duskywing friends in Bloomin' Butterfly Gardens this spring at Knoxville Zoo!