Safari North Wildlife Park

Reviews

• LK

  Linda King

  4 days ago
  5.0
  Very assessable for special needs people in wheelchairs. Great tar paths everywhere. So many beautiful animals to see. Very clean & spacious for the animals and us visiting.
• EG

  Erin G

  4 days ago
  5.0
  Friendly staff, many different animals to see, feed, even offering rides on some. Animals seem happy and well cared for. They have plenty of bathrooms and different options for food!
• AF

  Amelia Franko

  5 days ago
  5.0
  My family and I love going to Safari North! It’s something we look forward to every summer. It’s never a long wait to get in when you strategically plan your visit. Accommodations throughout the park are nice and there’s always spots to stop and relax for a few minutes. We love every animal in the park but the Parakeets are our favorite. 💙
• AM

  Angie Madson

  May 10, 2026
  5.0
  We would highly recommend this zoo. So worth the money!! We love how close we are to the animals. This is our 2nd time and its so amazing!!! We will be back.
• KM

  Kaylee Morken

  May 10, 2026
  4.0
  We visited this zoo yesterday, 05/09/2026. This zoo was highly recommended by many moms in my mom group when I brought up our typical Mother’s Day tradition of visiting a zoo and how I mentioned I wanted to get out of town and visit a zoo that I haven’t been to before. I have to say, if I didn’t have my GPS, I probably would have passed it. There’s a small sign and it’s right off this main highway, but not many signs leading up to it. Upon arriving, it didn’t look very big but we were excited! When reading reviews, one review said it was affordable, but we also have a big family (family of 6) so for us, it wasn’t so affordable compared to the other zoos we’ve visited. There was also another review that stated how friendly the staff were, and unfortunately I felt that we didn’t quite have the same luck. After paying, we weren’t told where to go and walked right out the exit door and they told us to “have a good day” 🥴 we walked down the length of the parking lot, clearly not knowing where to enter the zoo and found no entry so had to go back to the gift shop entry, where I told them we were just in there and had paid and clearly didn’t know where to go to see the animals since we had just walked right out the exit door after paying. In which they then pointed us around the right corner where there’s a “back door” to enter the zoo. Pros: There’s a wide variety of animals, many of which I’ve never seen before. The zoo is rather large, contrary to what you can see from the road. I like that you can feed the giraffes, ride a camel, there’s a petting zoo, and you can see many animals up close and fairly personal! There’s also a train you can take for a more “safari” like feel. They also have a small carnival next to the petting zoo which is pretty neat. Cons: You need to have money, in fact maybe just take out a small loan or sell a kidney before you go 😅 okay.. it might not be that extreme.. but for a zoo it sure felt like alot. You need to learn how to read minds before you go, because it seems like anybody working there doesn’t want to be bothered. There’s no signage telling you a cost for feeding the giraffes (still don’t know if there was one but assuming because everything else had a cost.. we just got lucky with some really nice people next to us that gave us a cup of carrots to feed the giraffe), no signage for cost to ride the camel $5 (had to ask), riding the safari train is $5 per person (which isn’t bad.. but they WILL sell you a ticket for the train even after the train is closed.. and then try to claim they don’t know how to give you a refund.. but I wasn’t going to accept that and told her to figure it out, in which she did 🥴) not sure how much the feed was for the petting zoo, I believe you got a cup.. I would guess $5 but, we just picked up stuff off the ground. Although the park is open until 6, everything seems to close at 5. Some of the animals seemed really distressed, scared or sad. The otters seemed distressed, there was a kitten of some sort close to the petting zoo that seemed so scared, and the poor baby camel and its cries 😭 it was so pitiful. So although there were many things that did cause me to feel uneasy.. and I wasn’t super thrilled with the price of things or the staff we encountered, we do want to make a trip back and give it one more try. Hoping to make it earlier next time and just spend a day there. Can definitely take your time and make a day out of it! Lots of beautiful animals and plenty of walking and things to do!