Monarch Butterfly Festival at St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge

After a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Monarch Butterfly Festival is back!

“On their 2,000-mile fall migration from North America to Central Mexico, thousands of monarch butterflies stop over in Florida’s Big Bend and Panhandle in October and November. This miraculous migration is celebrated in an annual Monarch Butterfly Festival at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge in picturesque St. Marks, Florida, a half hour south of Tallahassee.”

St. Marks is also known as a prime birding destination, and is famous for it historic lighthouse. The lighthouse keeper’s quarters will be open on the Saturday of the butterfly festival for self-guided tours between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The event also coincides with the annual St. Marks Stone Crab Festival.

Learn more here.