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Location
Visitor tip
Plan your visit around the train ride schedule - it runs on the hour and has long wait times. Arrive early or strategically time your visit to catch it at a less crowded hour to maximize your experience of the 30-acre safari preserve.
Visitor tip
Take advantage of zoo keeper talks and educational staff interactions happening throughout the grounds. Reviewers highlighted learning from staff about animal care and behavior while observing enclosure maintenance - this adds significant educational value to your visit.
Visitor tip
Bring a picnic to enjoy at the large pavilion after exploring. Multiple families noted this as a wonderful way to rest and spend quality time together after seeing everything the zoo offers, making it a full family-friendly day activity.
About Gulf Breeze Zoo
Lions, rhinos & more at a 50-acre park. Attraction featuring 800+ animals, giraffe feedings, a farm, train ride & wildlife preserve.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Zoo
- Highlights
- Animal feeding (giraffes, camels, birds, farm animals), 30-acre safari preserve, train ride, sloth and hippo encounters
- Experience Length
- About 3 hours for full visit
What visitors say
This was a tough visit for me. In principle, I don’t agree with traditional zoos, but my family was visiting and really wanted to go. That said, this is a well-maintained, mostly modern park, and there were several genuinely positive…
Gulf Breeze Zoo is an amazing Zoo. They have lots of different animals to see and also have some animal encounters. They have feed available to feed the animals and it is so much fun. Sometimes I go and spend a good bit of time and some…
The Hippo encounter was amazing, pretty spendy but worth it. Feeding the camels and birds was super cool too. It’s kind of a small zoo, but the enclosures are very well thought out and it’s a great experience. Took about 3 hours to see…
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Did You Know?
- Gulf Breeze Zoo features a 30-acre safari preserve with an elevated walkway that allows visitors to experience a mixed-species African safari-style habitat including rhinos, hippos, gazelles, and orangutans
- The zoo houses 800+ animals across 50 acres and offers multiple interactive animal feeding experiences including giraffe feeding, camel feeding, budgie feeding, and farm animal petting zones
- The train ride through the preserve runs on the hour and is included in admission, making it one of the most frequently mentioned attractions with 655 mentions in visitor reviews
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