Opening date is May 10th, 2025. Watch our Facebook page for further updates as this may change again. Our season runs through October 5th, 2025. Hours are 9:00 am - 6:00 pm daily with last entry at 4:30 pm. Start planning your trip to enjoy our new exhibits and activities.
We look forward to helping you educate your classroom. It's easy for school classrooms to register for a trip to visit the Safari North Zoo, just click "Register Trip".
If you have any questions that can't be answered with the information on this website please call the number below.
Everyone's favorite weekend is BACK! A weekend full of babies from around the world. Get face to face with some of the cutest, most cuddly babies we have to offer. This event will offer opportunities to get up close with certain babies only offered at this event, you will not want to miss out!
-Regular admission rates apply
-No charge for this event
-Season pass holders enjoy free entry to this event
Tickets can be purchased online or at the gate!
A weekend for the kids! Join us for our third annual Kids Weekend at the zoo! We will have strolling Magic Shows by DonB. Don's all original shows are a variety of comedy, magic, and juggling! A perfect clean, family-friendly mix of laugh out loud fun! Back again will also be face painting by The Painted Turtles! New to this event will be our Junior Zookeeper and Enrichment Workshop! We invite kids of all ages to dress up as their BEST Jr. Zookeeper and join our very own zookeepers in creating their own enrichment items for our animals! This weekend is fun for the whole family and a great interactive experience for the kids!
- Regular admission rates apply
-No charge for this event, supplies are provided
- Season pass holders enjoy free entry to this event
Tickets can be purchased online or at the gate!
Make sure you are the first to know, stay up to date on our social media!
Tickets can be purchased online or at the gate!
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 Kare11 News on May 18, 2019.
New attractions added to Safari North in 2021.
New attractions added to Safari North in 2021.
This is a new 10 acre safari where guest will see lions, hyenas, monkeys, zebras, wildebeest, scimitar oryx, kudu, nilgai, ostrich, emu, rhea, and more.
Ride our locomotive train through our new 10 acre Expedition Safari.
Learn more about our train ride
We have an amusement ride area which offers rides for all ages. They also serve food like Funnel Cakes, Deep Fried Oreos and Fresh Squeezed Lemonade.
learn more about amusement rides
Our newest member is Gunner, our Southern White Rhino! Gunner can be found between the Giraffes and Expedition Safari.
learn more about our animals
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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