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Lion Country Safari is a drive-through safari park and walk-through amusement park located on over 600 acres in Loxahatchee (near West Palm Beach), in Palm Beach County, Florida. Founded in 1967, it claims to be the first 'cageless zoo' in the United States. In 2009, USA Travel Guide ranked Lion Country as the 3rd best zoo in the nation. [2]
Lion Country Safari a short drive from West Palm Beach has again been named one of the top 10 safari parks. How great is Lion Country Safari? Zoo made this USA top 10 list for the seventh time!
Between 1967 and 1974, Lion Country Safari, Inc. opened 6 animal parks, one near each of the following American cities: West Palm Beach, Florida; Los Angeles, California; Grand Prairie, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Cincinnati, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia. The first park, in South Florida, is the only Lion Country Safari still in operation.
Spanning 300 acres with more than 80 species of animals, Lion Country Safari near West Palm took top honors in Newsweek's Best Animal Encounters list.
The lion was 18 or 19 years old, analogous to a human aged 80+, toothless and ill when he was bought by the safari park from a bankrupt Mexican circus in 1970. [2] [3]Named "Frasier" by park employees, he “hobbled about on weakened legs, his once-lustrous coat was scruffy and his tongue sagged from a toothless mouth,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
Loxahatchee's drive-through Lion Country Safari has recently been named one of the top 20 safari parks in the country. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
Before Wild Rivers was built, the land was a drive-through zoo called Lion Country Safari, which went bankrupt and closed in 1984. The park's owner still held 13 years on the original 29-year lease for the land, which he then subleased to the operators of the Wild Rivers water park, the Camp Frasier (later Camp James) summer camp and the ...
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