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Visitor tip
Don't miss the interactive animal encounters and safari drive-through experience. The safari offers close-up encounters with exotic animals like bison, kangaroos, and cheetahs. Bring food for the feeding stations and watch out for smart animals like bison that try to cheat and steal food from buckets.
Best time
Visit during warmer seasons (spring/summer) to see more animals active and on display, including the popular cheetahs and kangaroos. Cold weather may limit which animals are out and visible.
Visitor tip
Visit with kids and families—the venue is highly family-friendly with birthday party pavilions available. Kids will love interactive feeding experiences with goats, capybaras, and other animals, plus special animal personalities like 'Purty the cow' who performs and makes entertaining faces during feeding.
About NOVA Wild
Animal-feeding & pony ride options. Interactive exhibits like animal feeding plus wagon & pony rides make this compact zoo kid-friendly.
What visitors say
Nova Wild is such a fun and unique experience! It’s more than just a typical zoo—there are interactive animal encounters, educational exhibits, and plenty of opportunities to see animals up close. The staff are friendly and clearly…
We had a wonderful experience with NOVA Wild for my daughter’s birthday party. The pavilion area is nice and ours had a good view of the cheetahs. The animal enclosures are all clean and the animals appear to be happy. The staff were…
Just on Purty the cow alone I would spend my annual salary. So many awesome animals but as we walked down the hill we were greeted to a beautiful black and white cow DANCING TO GET OUR ATTENTION! If you hold the food out she also makes…
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Did You Know?
- NOVA Wild features a drive-through safari experience where visitors can feed exotic animals from their own vehicles, including American bison, capybaras, and other species
- The attraction is known for a notably interactive cow named Purty that performs behaviors like dancing and making facial expressions to engage visitors during animal feeding experiences
- NOVA Wild offers birthday party packages with flexible animal encounter options, including capybara and sloth encounters, demonstrating adaptive programming for private events
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