MONARCH SEASON IS LATE OCTOBER THRU FEBRUARY
Sandbar Surf School ❤️’s our local area’s butterflies!!! 🦋 😎
Smack dab in-between our office at 215 Grand Ave. Grover Beach and our surf lesson meeting spot is a wonderful natural eucalyptus grove that is BOUNTIFUL with beautiful Monarch Butterflies!
The Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove is one of only five sites in the state that has counts of over 10,000 butterflies annually. Each year thousands of vibrant orange and black Monarch Butterflies flock to Pismo State Beach, a location essential to their successful migration, seeking shelter from the freezing northern winters. From late October to February, the butterflies cluster in the limbs of towering, majestic Eucalyptus trees flanking a riparian estuary that flows to the Pacific Ocean. The grove is easily accessible from CA State Highway 1 at the south boundary of the city limits of Pismo Beach.
Current Monarch Count – November 30, 2022 = 19,177
MONARCH GROVE COUNTS
JANUARY 2022 – 22,000
JANUARY 22, 2020 – 1,995
DECEMBER 30, 2019 – 3,000
DECEMBER 12, 2019 – 3,926
NOVEMBER 27, 2019 – 6,735
NOVEMBER 20, 2019 – 5,380
NOVEMBER 8, 2019 – 3,370
- Last Count from 2018 season: January 2019 = 3,077.
- Last Count from 2017 season: December 2017 = 12,075.
- Last count from 2016 season on February 5, 2016 = 28,000+
