Butterfly Creek

Butterfly Creek Welcome to Butterfly Creek - Auckland's favourite family attraction! Explore our farm animals, monkeys and more. Connect with cute animals in Buttermilk Farm.
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Immerse yourself in our tropical butterfly house or meet Scar and Goldie, NZ’s only salt water crocodiles. Welcome… More than a zoo, there’s a surprise around every corner. Get up close with fabulous animals and entertaining attractions. Enter mythical lands where unicorns and dragons come alive. Travel back in time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Immerse yourself in our tropical butterfly house

and feel the brush of fluttering butterflies. Let your eyes adjust and see magnificent Kiwi roam in Kiwi Forest. See cheeky monkeys, meerkats and otters. Take a ride on the train, play in our free playground, then enjoy refreshments in our café. We also offer kids parties, functions and meetings, plus fun educational school and ECE’s visits. Explore the wonderland of Butterfly Creek and experience a day you’ll never forget.

03/06/2026

Travel back in time to when dinosaurs ruled the Earth at Dinosaur Kingdom 🦕

As you walk among the enormous herbivores and the fierce carnivores, you will meet a Triceratops mother about to protect her young one from a T-Rex but beware of the vicious Velociraptor! Don't forget to look up and see the massive 24 metre tall Diplodocus and the stegosaurus hiding in the trees.

This interactive attraction features an amazing display of life-sized animatronic dinosaurs that roar and move. Plus, there are loads of fantastic dinosaur photo opportunities for the whole family - be sure to tag us in them!

🦖50+ life sized dinosaurs
🦖Pre-historic themed attraction
🦖Included in your day pass

Explore Dinosaur Kingdom today! Book your tickets online at https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/buy

Calling all animal lovers: Do you love animals? Dream of being a zookeeper? Become a Junior Keeper for the day! ☀We have...
31/05/2026

Calling all animal lovers: Do you love animals? Dream of being a zookeeper? Become a Junior Keeper for the day! ☀

We have two Junior Keeper Programmes

🐸Junior Keeper Rookie🐸
Designed for children aged 7-11 years old. An introductory programme where kids learn the basics of animal care including feeding, cleaning and playing with the animals.

🐷Junior Keeper Explorer🐷
Designed for children aged 11-14 years old. It is a more in-depth look into animal care designed for older kids where they will learn about conservation, behavior and health.

Bookings are now open for July. Be sure to get in quick as spots are filling up fast!

Book online at https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/holiday-programmes

Share your best Dinosaur Kingdom photo and be in to win! 🦖We have 1 x Family Pass to give away to one lucky winner so yo...
29/05/2026

Share your best Dinosaur Kingdom photo and be in to win! 🦖

We have 1 x Family Pass to give away to one lucky winner so you can have a roar-some day out at Butterfly Creek. To enter, simply share your best Dinosaur Kingdom photo and tag us!

Entries close Sunday 7th June 4pm NZDT. Photos submitted may be used for promotional marketing.

We're open King's Birthday weekend. Bring the family and enjoy a fun day out with the animals 🐒🐾🐄
28/05/2026

We're open King's Birthday weekend. Bring the family and enjoy a fun day out with the animals 🐒🐾🐄

For the past few weeks, we've been getting our meerkat enclosure ready for two new arrivals - Mokalo and Tumelo! These t...
27/05/2026

For the past few weeks, we've been getting our meerkat enclosure ready for two new arrivals - Mokalo and Tumelo! These two boys will be living alongside Keeya in our meerkat enclosure and we're excited to see how they settle in 🐾

Come say hello to our meerkats this weekend! Book your tickets online at https://www.butterflycreek.co.nz/ and enjoy a day of fun at Butterfly Creek ☀

26/05/2026

It's World Otter Day!

When our cheeky little otter family isn't snoozing in the sun, they're having fun in the water and seeing you during the otter encounter.

Meet our otter family and learn more about them in our free otter encounter.
📍11.30am daily at the otter enclosure

Happy Monday! ☀Our keepers are starting the week off with cute animal selfies 🐒
24/05/2026

Happy Monday! ☀

Our keepers are starting the week off with cute animal selfies 🐒

On Tuesday 5th May, Friends of Matakohe-Limestone Island, local iwi, Ngāti Manuhiri, mana whenua Te Parawhau, Butterfly ...
24/05/2026

On Tuesday 5th May, Friends of Matakohe-Limestone Island, local iwi, Ngāti Manuhiri, mana whenua Te Parawhau, Butterfly Creek staff, school students and volunteers gathered to release 450 giant wētāpunga onto Whangārei Harbour’s predator-free Matakohe-Limestone Island.

For the past year, Butterfly Creek (in collaboration with Auckland Zoo) have been breeding these wētāpunga on site in our specialised wētāpunga unit. Early Tuesday morning, adult and juvenile wētāpunga were packaged into bamboo tubes and chilly bins as they travelled from Butterfly Creek (Auckland) to Matakohe-Limestone Island for the release.

Following a formal ceremony on the island where members of Auckland iwi Ngāti Manuhiri handed over wētāpunga to mana whenua Te Parawhau, attendees helped find new homes for the wētāpunga (adult and juvenile species) to be released in the trees.

For 15 years, Butterfly Creek has been running a wētāpunga breeding programme with the goal to increase wētāpunga populations in Aotearoa alongside Auckland Zoo. We have since released hundreds of wētāpunga onto predator-free island sanctuaries like Matakohe-Limestone Island and we aim to release more in future years.

You can read the full article here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/on-the-up-giant-weta-arrive-on-whangarei-island-in-major-conservation-milestone/N6MQT4IMZBFSDG255PZZX3P4VU/

Photo credit: Wendy Bown

Fun Fact Friday: Meerkats 🐾Did you know that meerkats have a social structure where they partake in ‘jobs’ each day? One...
22/05/2026

Fun Fact Friday: Meerkats 🐾

Did you know that meerkats have a social structure where they partake in ‘jobs’ each day? One of the jobs is called sentry where one meerkat will stand at the highest point of their enclosure and act as a lookout for possible threats while the other meerkats forage and dig.

See a tarantula up close in our tarantula encounter 🕷📍Butterfly House⏰Daily at 2pm
18/05/2026

See a tarantula up close in our tarantula encounter 🕷

📍Butterfly House
⏰Daily at 2pm

Address

10 Tom Pearce Drive
Auckland
2022

Opening Hours

Wednesday 9:30am - 4pm
Thursday 9:30am - 4pm
Friday 9:30am - 4pm
Saturday 9:30am - 5pm
Sunday 9:30am - 5pm

Telephone

+6492758880

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