Fort Chiswell Animal Park

[KiwiBirb]

I am heading from Bristol, TN to New River Gorge National Park in West Virginia today and was originally going to go to Fort Chiswell Animal Park in Virginia on the way; however, I can find little information about the place on its website, zootierliste, and here on ZooChat. I was wondering if anyone on here has been to the park and would know whether or not it’s worth it.

 

[Mr. Bobcat]

FORT CHISWELL ANIMAL PARK
This is their website.

 

[KiwiBirb]

Species list 8/7/25
Gift Shop:
-Burmese Python

-African Grey Parrot

-Hybrid Macaw (unknown origin)

“Petting Zoo”:
-Blackbuck

-Common Ostrich
-Greater Rhea

-European Fallow Deer
-Llama
-Blackbuck (signed but not seen)

-Aoudad

-Grivet
-Tufted Capuchin (signed Black-Capped Capuchin)

-Empty Aviary

-African Spurred Tortoise

-Grey Crowned Crane
-Domestic Egyptian Goose (unsigned)

-Alpaca
-Llama
-Domestic Goat

-African Crested Porcupine (exhibit located inside domestics exhibit)

“The Outback”:
-Scimitar Horned Oryx (Queue)

-Blackbuck (Queue)

-American Bison
-Bactrian Camel
-Blue Wildebeest
-Common Eland
-Common Ostrich
-Domestic Water Buffalo
-Plains Zebra
-Pot-Bellied Pig
-“Zedonk” (hybrid zebra and donkey)

-European Fallow Deer

 

[Wisp O' Mist]

Species list 8/7/25
Gift Shop:
-Burmese Python

-African Grey Parrot

-Hybrid Macaw (unknown origin)

“Petting Zoo”:
-Blackbuck

-Common Ostrich
-Greater Rhea

-European Fallow Deer
-Llama
-Blackbuck (signed but not seen)

-Aoudad

-Grivet
-Tufted Capuchin (signed Black-Capped Capuchin)

-Empty Aviary

-African Spurred Tortoise

-Grey Crowned Crane
-Domestic Egyptian Goose (unsigned)

-Alpaca
-Llama
-Domestic Goat

-African Crested Porcupine (exhibit located inside domestics exhibit)

“The Outback”:
-Scimitar Horned Oryx (Queue)

-Blackbuck (Queue)

-American Bison
-Bactrian Camel
-Blue Wildebeest
-Common Eland
-Common Ostrich
-Domestic Water Buffalo
-Plains Zebra
-Pot-Bellied Pig
-“Zedonk” (hybrid zebra and donkey)

-European Fallow Deer

Nicely done! A list of the usual suspects for small, privately-owned, non-accredited zoos I see.