Flamingo Gardens

Beautiful gardens with an amazing collection of plants from across the world! Look for the rainbow eucalyptus! There is also wonderful variety of birds to view and even interact with. Feed the birds in the large Aviary, or feed the flamingos, ibis, & muscovy ducks from your hand at the flamingo pond. Choose your day & time carefully, weekends are popular wirh families and small screaming children. Staff and volunteers are friendly and knowledgeable! Start a conversation with the ladies at the desk, presenters, or Geoff in the Aviary and your visit will definitely be better than just wandering around. Geoff was so helpful identifying the birds and directing me to where to use the flamingo and koi feed. Listen to the staff: don't feed the pea fowl! They will follow you around and everyone will know you broke the rules! 😂 This would be a really good date venue later in the day; get some flamingo fries from the food truck when you're done enjoying the sights. I really loved this park and i'll put it on my list when I return to the area. 👍❤️

Beautiful botanical gardens and wildlife! The grounds are kept immaculate. All of the wildlife has been rescued in some manner and are now getting to live their best lives. The plants are amazing and they are working hard to increase the butterfly population. Highly recommend stopping in.

Perfect day to visit this beautiful sanctuary, Monday afternoon. No huge crowds to fight, gorgeous weather in mid-February. Saw lots of interesting birds up close, some would even walk up to you for food. But if you're going in the afternoon, don't bother paying a dollar for the bag of flamingo food. The flamingos won't eat it -- they're all full from being feed all morning long. None of them were interested in our handouts at all. And you're not supposed to feed the peacocks according to what was written on the bag of food. I think you can feed the other birds though. You may want to ask at the ticket counter. The live animal event featured a blind albino opossum and an teeny tiny owl on this day -- they have different animals on different days. This is not a zoo -- it's an animal rescue and sanctuary, so the talk they gave at the event centered around how they help the animals and what the public can do to help the animals. Education. Love that. Beautiful peacocks everywhere. The butterfly room wasn't as filled with butterflies as much as I've seen at other exhibits like the Milwaukee Public Museum, but maybe that depended on the time of year or something. Take the tram ride to see the whole park. When we went there were two huge gators in a smallish pen, perhaps they are waiting to be moved to another place where they can have more room, I'm not sure. The bear had unfortunately passed away, so was not on exhibit. But they had a puma cub that was new to the place, I think the sign said it was the very first day it was on exhibit so they were asking the public to be restrained a bit so as not to frighten it. We spent about 2-3 hours there and had a great time.

We were visiting the area and had a few hours to kill before our flight back home. Decided to book and glad we did! There are so many things to do, see, and explore. We especially loved the train train ride, animal experience, and the beauitful foliage which seemed endless. The grounds are well maintained and they have a gift shop which is reasonably priced. Age appropriate for ALL ages: from children to seniors. Highly recommend checking it out if youre in the area.

Absolutely loved this place! We expected to spend a couple of hours and ended up spending the whole day. So much to see if you like animals and plant life. The staff was friendly and knowledgeable.