South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Cumbria

South Lakes Wild Animal Park is situated in Cumbria and was somewhere we had be recommended to visit on a recent trip to the lakes and it was certainly worth the visit and exceed our expectations of a zoo trip. Getting there ************* The Animal Park is situated at the southern tip of the Lake District in the North West of England on the A590 trunk road. If you take Junction 36 from the M6 and follow signs for Barrow in Furness, until the brown Elephant Tourist Signs take over. We had done a route map with the AA and this in combination with the brown signs got us there with no problems ... more

As the name suggests, the South Lakes Wild Animal Park is a collection of some of your favourite animals house in a park that allows the majority of its inhabitants to wander freely. The focus is very much on conservation and there is a lot of information about work that the park does to help animals in the wild. Not to be confused with a zoo, there is hardly a fence in sight, the park has obviously made a huge effort to provide as natural an environment as is possible in this country. Getting There and Getting In The South Lakes Wild Animal Park is located at the Southern tip of the Lake ... more

An amazing day out in the lakes During the Easter holiday I took my kids to the Lake District for a few days and while we weren’t blessed with gorgeous weather we did have a lovely time. One of their favourite things we did during our trip was to visit South Lakes Wild Animal Park. South Lakes Wild Animal Park is the only open zoo in Cumbria and it was my first experience of visiting an open zoo but hopefully it will not be my last. Getting there was relatively easy by car. We were based just outside Lake Windermere and the park was located in Dalton in Furness which was about a 20 minute ... more