Every autumn, Peninsula Point becomes a crucial staging ground for thousands of migrating monarch butterflies. Located at the southern tip of the Stonington Peninsula within the Hiawatha National Forest, this narrow spit of land acts as a natural funnel for butterflies traveling south from Canada and the Upper Peninsula. Because monarchs avoid flying over large bodies of open water, they congregate here to rest and wait for optimal weather conditions before taking the shortest possible flight across Lake Michigan toward Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula.
Unfortunately, the numbers of monarch butterflies have been decreasing drastically. The last time we went there were hundreds instead of thousands of butterflies.
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