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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
TourismLow
Species present
18
species
Opened
1978
SizeLarge

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Address
5701 Gulf Breeze Parkway, Gulf Breeze, FL 32563
gulfbreezezoo.org ↗

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🦒 Animals in captivity

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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.

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.

Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)