Zoo
Gulf Breeze Zoo
🇺🇸 United States
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, United States 18 spp. present
The Gulf Breeze Zoo (originally The Zoo Northwest Florida) is a 50-acre (20 ha) zoo located in Woodlawn Beach, Florida, neighboring Navarre and Gulf Breeze, Florida. The zoo has over 900 exotic animals including rhinos, hippos, Western lowland gorillas, and orangutans that visitors can view during an African preserve train ride. Activities include hand-feeding of some animals including giraffes. The Gulf Breeze Zoo supports captive breeding, wildlife conservation, and habitat preservation programs. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
30.401° N 86.990° W
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
Low
Species present
18
speciesOpened
1978
Size
Large
Visit
Getting there
- Address
- 5701 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze, FL 32563
- Phone
- +1 850-932-2229
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
EN
Ring-tailed Lemur
Lemur catta
VU
Binturong
Arctictis binturong
Before you go
Where is Gulf Breeze Zoo?
United States
Gulf Breeze Zoo is a zoo or wildlife park in the United States, at 5701 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze, FL 32563. Its coordinates are 30.401° N, 86.990° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, about 638 km away.
What animals can you see at Gulf Breeze Zoo?
18 species
Citizen-science photos record 18 species at Gulf Breeze Zoo, including Ring-tailed Lemur, Bongo, Giant Anteater, Lar Gibbon and Cheetah. 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 Gulf Breeze Zoo in the wild?
Bongo: Odzala-Kokoua National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Gulf Breeze Zoo also live in the parks and cities we cover: Bongo (about 30% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Odzala-Kokoua National Park), Giant Anteater (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Serra da Canastra National Park) and Lar Gibbon (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Khao Yai National Park).
When did Gulf Breeze Zoo open and how big is it?
Opened 1978, 19 ha
Gulf Breeze Zoo, a zoo or wildlife park in the United States, opened in 1978 and covers about 19 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 18 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)