Zoo

Kolmården Wildlife Park

🇸🇪 Sweden

🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Sweden 78 spp. present

Kolmården Wildlife Park (Swedish: Kolmårdens djurpark) is a zoo that opened in 1965 overlooking Bråviken bay in Sweden. It is the largest zoo in Scandinavia, includes the first dolphinarium in Scandinavia, which opened in 1969 and has daily shows, and the world's first cable car safari. The wildlife park also has a birds of prey display and a seal show. In the Marine World area is a roller coaster called "The Dolphin Express". Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

58.665° N   16.466° E

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Essentials

Entrance
TourismHigh
Species present
78
species
Opened
1965
SizeLarge

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Getting there

kolmarden.com ↗

Who runs it

Owned by
Parks & Resorts Scandinavia

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Before you go

Where is Kolmården Wildlife Park?

Sweden

Kolmården Wildlife Park is a zoo or wildlife park in Sweden. Its coordinates are 58.665° N, 16.466° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Gauja National Park, about 527 km away.

Where can you see the animals of Kolmården Wildlife Park in the wild?

Common Ostrich: De Hoop Nature Reserve

Some of the animals photographed at Kolmården Wildlife Park also live in the parks and cities we cover: Common Ostrich (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in De Hoop Nature Reserve), Blue-and-yellow Macaw (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Emas National Park) and Water Dragon (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Khao Yai National Park).

When did Kolmården Wildlife Park open and how big is it?

Opened 1965, 124 ha

Kolmården Wildlife Park, a zoo or wildlife park in Sweden, opened in 1965 and covers about 124 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 78 species are photographed there.