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Alice Springs Desert Park
🇦🇺 Australia
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Australia 74 spp. present
The Alice Springs Desert Park is an environmental education facility and wildlife park in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
23.706° S 133.833° E
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Essentials
Entrance
—
Tourism
High
Species present
74
speciesOpened
1997
Size
Large
Visit
Opening hours
Every day · 7:30–18:0025 Dec · closed
Getting there
- Address
- Larapinta Drive, NT
- Phone
- +61 8 8951 8788
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
LC
Orange Chat
Epthianura aurifrons
Before you go
Where is Alice Springs Desert Park?
Australia
Alice Springs Desert Park is a zoo or wildlife park in Australia, at Larapinta Drive, NT. Its coordinates are 23.706° S, 133.833° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, about 362 km away.
What animals can you see at Alice Springs Desert Park?
74 species
Citizen-science photos record 74 species at Alice Springs Desert Park, including Thorny Devil, Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo, Australian Bustard, Orange Chat and Black-faced Woodswallow. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Alice Springs Desert Park in the wild?
Thorny Devil: Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Alice Springs Desert Park also live in the parks and cities we cover: Thorny Devil (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park), Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Nitmiluk National Park) and Australian Bustard (about 20% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Ningaloo Marine Park).
When is Alice Springs Desert Park open?
Every day · 7:30–18:00
According to its open map listing, Alice Springs Desert Park is open Every day · 7:30–18:00; 25 Dec · closed. Opening hours change with the season and on public holidays, so confirm them on the official website before you travel.
When did Alice Springs Desert Park open and how big is it?
Opened 1997, 50 ha
Alice Springs Desert Park, a zoo or wildlife park in Australia, opened in 1997 and covers about 50 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 74 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)