Zoo
Ranua Wildlife Park
🇫🇮 Finland
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Finland 23 spp. present
Ranua Resort (better known as Ranua Zoo or Ranua Wildlife Park) is a wildlife park and a holiday resort that opened in 1983 in the municipality of Ranua, Lapland, Finland. It is the northernmost zoo in Finland and the second northeast in the world. Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
65.942° N 26.468° E
🎟️ Visit
Essentials
Entrance
—
Tourism
Medium
Species present
23
speciesOpened
1983
Size
Large
Visit
Opening hours
Every day · 10:00–16:00
Getting there
- Address
- Rovaniementie 29, 97700 Ranua
- Phone
- +358 40 5177 436
- Access
- Partly wheelchair accessible
Who runs it
- Run by
- Ranuan Seudun Matkailu Oy
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Before you go
Where is Ranua Wildlife Park?
Finland
Ranua Wildlife Park is a zoo or wildlife park in Finland, at Rovaniementie 29, 97700 Ranua. Its coordinates are 65.942° N, 26.468° E. The nearest national park in our atlas is Gauja National Park, about 967 km away.
What animals can you see at Ranua Wildlife Park?
23 species
Citizen-science photos record 23 species at Ranua Wildlife Park, including Muskox, Caribou, Eurasian Moose, Polar Bear and Wild Boar. 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 Ranua Wildlife Park in the wild?
Caribou: Svalbard
Some of the animals photographed at Ranua Wildlife Park also live in the parks and cities we cover: Caribou (about 90% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Svalbard), Eurasian Moose (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Biebrza National Park) and Polar Bear (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Svalbard).
When is Ranua Wildlife Park open?
Every day · 10:00–16:00
According to its open map listing, Ranua Wildlife Park is open Every day · 10:00–16:00. Opening hours change with the season and on public holidays, so confirm them on the official website before you travel.
When did Ranua Wildlife Park open and how big is it?
Opened 1983, 37 ha
Ranua Wildlife Park, a zoo or wildlife park in Finland, opened in 1983 and covers about 37 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 23 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers · Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)