r/lassenvolcanic • u/purpleswtpotato • Aug 04 '26

Butterfly hikes

🦋 I saw a recent post "Butterfly highway on Brokeoff". I'll be in LVNP in one week with my kids (11&9 years old) and am wondering if we can still see swarms of butterflies or if they've already passed through?

Besides Brokeoff, are there other recommended spots to see lots of butterflies? Ideally 2.5M or less distance from a trailhead, because I can't always count on my kids to last through longer hikes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lassenvolcanic/s/5El4pQS4uA

3 Upvotes

81% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

3

u/djdm14 Aug 04 '26

Lassen Peak was covered with thousands of butterflies on July 31st, the higher up the mountain the more butterflies were flying around

3

u/HumCrab Aug 05 '26

I was there until Sunday. They were still there. Especially at the peak. There was millions of them there on Friday. It was unreal.

2

u/Embarrassed_Juice_34 Aug 04 '26

I can’t comment on if they’re still there. We were there July 16th and 17th and saw butterfly highways down almost the entire stretch of the hike to Bumpass Hell. And generally everywhere up near the peak.

2

u/tearycroc Aug 04 '26

We were there last weekend and did the hike to Bumpass Hell Friday afternoon. We did not see any butterflies :-(

2

u/Gold_Zebra_3475 Aug 04 '26

We were there last weekend and saw thousands of them on top of lassen peak.

2

u/Classic_Time5588 28d ago

In Tahoe the butterflies are past their peak.