Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2011) |
| Date opened | 1966 |
|---|---|
| Location | Thurmont, Maryland, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°35′26″N 77°25′51″W / 39.590642°N 77.430739°WCoordinates: 39°35′26″N 77°25′51″W / 39.590642°N 77.430739°W |
| Land area | 100 acres (40 ha)[1] |
| No. of animals | 450+ |
| Website | catoctinwildlifepreserve |
The Catoctin Wildlife Preserve is a 100-acre (40 ha) zoo and wildlife preserve (25 acres (10 ha) are accessible to the public) located on Maryland Route 806 in Thurmont, Maryland, United States.
The preserve features safari truck rides that let visitors touch and feed large herbivores in a wooded setting.
History[]
Animals have been exhibited at this location since 1933, when it was known as Jungleland Snake Farm.[2] Owner Gordon Gaver operated the small attraction (approx. 5 acres) until his death in 1964.[3] The facility was then purchased by Richard and Mary Anne Hahn[4] and reopened in 1966. The Hahn family maintained ownership and gradually enlarged the park.
Safari ride[]
Africa area[]
- Nigerian Dwarf goat
- African pygmy goat
- Northern ground hornbill*
- Amur leopard
- Leopard tortoise
- Warthog
- Aoudad
Eurasia area[]
- Snow leopard
- Meerkat
- Green anaconda
- Reticulated python
- Yellow anaconda
- African rock python*
- Morelet's crocodile
- African sacred ibis
- Ruddy shelduck*
- African spurred tortoise
- Galápagos tortoise
- Andean goose
- Red-crowned crane
- Koi
- Suri alpaca
- Jacobs four-horned sheep
- Angora goat
- Koklass pheasant
- Egyptian vulture
- Indian blue peafowl
- North American turkey
- Moloch gibbon
Australia area[]
- Red-footed tortoise
- Magpie goose
- Red kangaroo
- Red-necked wallaby
- Emu
- Salmon-crested cockatoo
- Goffin
- Rose-breasted cockatoo
- Australian shelduck
- Budgie
- Laughing kookaburra
- Black swan
- Maned goose
- Eurasian shelduck
- Dingo
- Green tree python
- Mertens' water monitor*
- Solomon Islands skink
- Olive python
- Spotted python*
- Australian blue-tongued skink
- Serrated snapping turtle*
- Woma
- Fly River turtle
- Double-wattled cassowary
Latin America area[]
Madagascar area[]
North America area[]
- Marabou stork
- American alligator
- Barred owl
- Collared peccary
- American alligator
- Greater siren
- Timber rattlesnake
- Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
- Western massasauga rattlesnake
- Northern copperhead
- Cottonmouth
- Mexican beaded lizard
- Gila monster
- Black ratsnake
- Yellow ratsnake
- Bullsnake
- Louisiana pine snake
- Rosy boa
- Sinaloan milksnake
- False map turtle
- Mississippi map turtle
- Loggerhead musk turtle
- Western hognose snake
- Desert tortoise
- Rhinoceros iguana
- California quail
- Corn snake
- Mountain coati
- Arctic wolf
Islands area[]
- Tonkean macaque
- Binturong
- Olive baboon
- Hyacinth macaw
- Black-bellied whistling duck
- White-faced whistling duck
- Blue-and-yellow macaw
- Red-and-green macaw
- Scarlet macaw
- Military macaw
- Great horned owl
- African pied crow
- White eared pheasant
- Booted macaque
- Sun bear
- Gaboon viper
- Crocodile monitor
- Tentacled snake
- Boomslang
- Eyelash palm pit viper
- Western green mamba
- South American bushmaster
- Albino monocled cobra
- King cobra
- Lady Amherst's pheasant
- Blue-bellied roller
Fishes[]
- European orfe
- Albino catfish
- Goldfish
Japanese Koi
Free-roaming animals[]
Education program animals[]
Notes[]
- * temporarily off exhibit
- ^ "About Us". cwpzoo.com. Catocin Wildlife Preserve. Retrieved 24 September 2011.
- ^ Solomon, Mary Jane (1995-08-11). "CATOCTIN ZOO: ANOTHER ANIMAL ALTOGETHER". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- ^ Staff, Karen Gardner News-Post. "We grew up in a zoo!". The Frederick News-Post. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
- ^ Magazine, Frederick (2013-07-13). "Q&A: Richard Hahn". Frederick Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
External links[]
Categories:
- Zoos in Maryland
- Buildings and structures in Frederick County, Maryland
- Tourist attractions in Frederick County, Maryland