Butterfly Creek is alive with Mythic Creatures!
Head to Butterfly Creek to see some of the world’s most fantastical legends come to life. Take a walk around the park and find Dragons, Unicorns, Serpents, Aliens, magical Mermaids, the mythical Kraken and many more amazing creatures.
Like Dinosaur Kingdom, many of the creatures are life-sized & some even move & make sounds! It’s a very magical experience for children and adults as you wander around Butterfly Creek. Our Mythical Creatures exhibit is included in your day pass, so there is no extra cost to check it out.
Did you know…
- Mermaids were considered irresistible to sailors, even though they were often associated with bad luck. Legends say that mermaids would lure sailors off course with their tricks, sometimes to their deaths.
- Genghis Kan reportedly decided not to conquer India after meeting a unicorn, which bowed down to him. He viewed it as a sign from his dead father and turned his army back.
- The first sighting of a Big Foot is by a trader named David Thompson in Jasper in Canada in 1811 after he found strange footprints in the snow 370 mm long and 200mm wide and with 4 toes.
- In the summer of 1947, a rancher discovered unidentifiable debris in his sheep pasture outside Roswell, New Mexico. Although officials from the local Air Force base asserted that it was a crashed weather balloon, many people believed it was the remains of an extra-terrestrial flying saucer.
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