The Atlanta Safari Park is a drive through style safari park that recently opened in April 2023 about an hour outside of the city of Atlanta Georgia.
The drive through portion is about 2 miles long along a gravel road through over 100 acres of open spaces and woodlands. There is also a small walk through area with a budgie aviary, gift shop, goats/sheep, juvenile emu feeding, and picnic tables. Soon there will be giraffe feeding as well, but they do not have the animal yet.
The budgie aviary was really well built, as good as any AZA aviary I have been in. It had budgies (about 200) and silver pheasants (4). The entry and exit doors are a double entry spring closed system that works well. The whole thing is solid wood with wire net as seen in many aviaries around the world, it's the thicker wire covered in black. We used to use it for a ton of applications at ZooTampa.
When you drive onto the property you immediately pay at a booth, but you can park and do the walk through first or head straight to the safari. Restrooms are portable toilets beside the parking area.
The fee for the safari is $16 for adults, $15 for seniors 65+, and $13 for kids ages 2-12. Buckets of feed to feed the animals in both the safari and walk through are $5 each, but it is a pretty big bucket of feed. Even if you did not have feed I am sure that the animals stay close to the road as it is, so you would still have fun without feeding them.
Interestingly they did not have any deer, which is rather odd for a safari park like this.
Overall this was a fun place that I would stop at again if I find myself in Atlanta for a while or I was passing through on the interstate, as it is only about 10 minutes off of I-85.
It took us about an hour to drive through and then another 30 minutes or so in the walk through area.
They are still filling out the animal collection, but currently they have the below. All were seen other than noted:
Safari:
Grants Zebra
Blue Wildebeest
Thomson's gazelle
Scimitar horned oryx
Common eland
Blackbuck
Bison
Water Buffalo
Highland Cattle
Watusi Cattle
Llama
Alpaca
Common ostrich
Emu
Walk through:
Silver pheasant
Budgerigar
Emu (juvenile)
Kune kune pig
Boer Goat
Nigerian dwarf goat
Jacob's Sheep
On their pamphlet but not on site or seen:
Nilgai
Red Lechwe
Banteng
Reticulated Giraffe (definitely not there yet)
Indian Peafowl
Eurasian Eagle Owl
The drive through portion is about 2 miles long along a gravel road through over 100 acres of open spaces and woodlands. There is also a small walk through area with a budgie aviary, gift shop, goats/sheep, juvenile emu feeding, and picnic tables. Soon there will be giraffe feeding as well, but they do not have the animal yet.
The budgie aviary was really well built, as good as any AZA aviary I have been in. It had budgies (about 200) and silver pheasants (4). The entry and exit doors are a double entry spring closed system that works well. The whole thing is solid wood with wire net as seen in many aviaries around the world, it's the thicker wire covered in black. We used to use it for a ton of applications at ZooTampa.
When you drive onto the property you immediately pay at a booth, but you can park and do the walk through first or head straight to the safari. Restrooms are portable toilets beside the parking area.
The fee for the safari is $16 for adults, $15 for seniors 65+, and $13 for kids ages 2-12. Buckets of feed to feed the animals in both the safari and walk through are $5 each, but it is a pretty big bucket of feed. Even if you did not have feed I am sure that the animals stay close to the road as it is, so you would still have fun without feeding them.
Interestingly they did not have any deer, which is rather odd for a safari park like this.
Overall this was a fun place that I would stop at again if I find myself in Atlanta for a while or I was passing through on the interstate, as it is only about 10 minutes off of I-85.
It took us about an hour to drive through and then another 30 minutes or so in the walk through area.
They are still filling out the animal collection, but currently they have the below. All were seen other than noted:
Safari:
Grants Zebra
Blue Wildebeest
Thomson's gazelle
Scimitar horned oryx
Common eland
Blackbuck
Bison
Water Buffalo
Highland Cattle
Watusi Cattle
Llama
Alpaca
Common ostrich
Emu
Walk through:
Silver pheasant
Budgerigar
Emu (juvenile)
Kune kune pig
Boer Goat
Nigerian dwarf goat
Jacob's Sheep
On their pamphlet but not on site or seen:
Nilgai
Red Lechwe
Banteng
Reticulated Giraffe (definitely not there yet)
Indian Peafowl
Eurasian Eagle Owl
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