This event invites area crafters and small businesses to participate in a one day event located inside the zoo! This event promotes shopping small and supporting area businesses! Not a vendor? Come see what's here and shop around all day! Check back often to seen when this summer event will be.
(Regular admission rates apply) #ShopLocal-
TO APPLY TO BE A VENDOR: Please call Cheyanne at 507-822-4747 or email cheyanne.snwp@gmail.com
During this summer event we invite children to dress up as a zookeeper. Children dressed up in their best zookeeper outfit will be given a treat from the gift shop or snack shack!
Details: Regular admission rates apply. Live Music "Meet the Keeper" talks (Stay tuned for times). Animal Enrichment Workshop! All children are invited to participate in creating their very own enrichment for animals at the zoo! Families may bring their own items to be approved to create enrichment items, and Safari North will supply items as well! Check back often to seen when this summer event will be.
No matter how old you are come and experience our world's wildlife that will educate and make lasting memories with family and friends.
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Bring your group or organization to explore and learn about amazing and incredible animal species that our world has to offer.
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Safari North offers more than just view animals of the world. There are other activities that youth and adults can participate in.
get a previewSafari Wildlife Park's mission is to promote life-long learning in all of us by enriching our minds, fostering environmental respect, while helping prepare our visitors for our conservation future.
Our goal is to provide positive experiences that last a lifetime with every visit no matter how old you are. Come see why generations of families remember us when they visit Brainerd, MN and make a few lasting memories of your own.
We offer an up close and personal experience where each year our guests marvel at wild wonders as they play, laugh, and learn.
Safari North is a family friendly wildlife park were you can feed a giraffe or ride a camel and see animals from around the world!
Talk to friends, read our reviews, or watch videos done by our visitors on why to visit Safari North.
Our visit with WCCO News was on June 6, 2019. Here's a link to our visit with them.
Click to view videoOur visit with Kare11 News on May 18, 2019.
New attractions added to Safari North in 2021.
New attractions added to Safari North in 2021.
Kevin joined the Jason Show with some baby animals, including a kangaroo.
Click to view videoThis is a new 10 acre safari where guest will see lions, hyenas, monkeys, zebras, wildebeest, bison, eland, nilgai, ostrich, emu, rhea, and more.
Ride our locomotive train through our new 10 acre Expedition Safari.
Learn more about our train ride
At this time we have 3 cheetahs; 2 males and 1 female. Cheetahs are the fastest land animal in the world reaching speeds of up to 70 mph we are one of the very few zoos in the mid west to have cheetahs on exhibit.
learn more about our animalsThe crab-eating macaque, also known as the long-tailed macaque, is a cercopithecine primate native to Southeast Asia. It is referred to as the cynomolgus monkey in laboratories.
The vervet monkey, or simply vervet, is an Old World monkey of the family Cercopithecidae native to Africa. The term "vervet" is also used to refer to all the members of the genus Chlorocebus. The five distinct subspecies can be found mostly throughout Southern Africa, as well as some of the eastern countries
How's the water? Ask an otter.
Otters are the only aquatic members of the weasel family and as a top predator they are affected by toxic chemicals in the water. Pollutants are absorbed by plants and animals and eventually make their way up the food chain increasing in concentration as they go. These chemicals stay in the otter's fat layer, sometimes for years making them unhealthy.
Conservation efforts have resulted in recolonization of areas where North American river otters were previously extirpated.
The blue-bellied roller is a member of the roller family of birds which breeds across Africa in a narrow belt from Senegal to northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is resident, apart from some local seasonal movements, in mature moist savannah dominated by Isoberlinia trees.
The red-legged seriema, or crested cariama, is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family, included in the Gruiformes in the old paraphyletic circumscription, but increasingly placed in a distinct order Cariamiformes.
The violet turaco, also known as the violaceous plantain eater, is a large turaco, a group of African near-passerines.
The Caracal is a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and India. It is characterised by a robust build, long legs, a short face, long tufted ears, and long canine teeth. Its coat is uniformly reddish tan or sandy, while the ventral parts are lighter with small reddish markings.
Photography: You are welcome to take photos and/or video for your personal use only; commercial photography is prohibited without written permission/consent from Safari North Park Director.
Photography permission: On occasion we will photograph or videotape visitors for educational and promotional purposes. Entry to the zoo grants permission for use of these images.
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