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We are proud to offer a wide range of exciting opportunities, with our experienced team, to enjoy up close encounters with a variety of our species. These encounters are crafted to be enriching for both our animals and you.

Cheetah at Halls Gap Zoo

Cheetah Encounter

From: $100.00 cost per person

Meet our amazing cheetah brothers up close, so close you will hear them purring like a V-8 along with their other vocalisations. You will provide the boys with some of their favourite snacks and the keeper will share the training that we do with our boys to make health care easier.

Minimum 13 years of age

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Dingo at Halls Gap Zoo

Dingo Encounter

From: $35.00 cost per person

Help our keeper make our dingo’s day! Our dingoes love meeting new people, receiving a scratch and a pat and they may even return the gesture with a sniff and a lick.

Minimum 6 years of age

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Early Bird Tour(1) (2)

Early Bird Tour

From: $380.00

Early morning is a great time to have the zoo to yourself and see our wildlife when they are most active and always glad to greet their keepers. You can join in on this exclusive Early Bird Tour which includes zoo entry and a personal guided tour with an experienced keeper who will share their stories about our wildlife and their personalities and will have a bucket breakfast of treats to give a variety of animals. Our dingoes will howl their early greeting to you and you will have the opportunity to enter their enclosure and feed them their breakfast.

Minimum age : 6 years

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Giraffe Encounter

Giraffe Encounter

From: $60.00 cost per person

Join our tower of giraffes and enjoy them gently taking feed from your hands as the keeper passes you some of their favourite treats such as carrots. You will be so close that you will feel their breath and see their amazing tongues built for retrieving food from tall trees.

Minimum 13 years of age

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Lizard encounter at Halls Gap Zoo

Lizard Encounter

From: $25.00 cost per person

Enjoy an opportunity to get up close with one of the many Australian lizards in our collection. There are nearly 700 named species of lizard in Australia, learn all about their remarkable lives, where they live, what they eat and the amazing way they control body temperatures.

Minimum 4 years of age

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Meerkat encounter at Halls Gap Zoo

Meerkat Encounter

From: $50.00 cost per person

Meet our mischievous mob up close. Accompanied by an experienced keeper, you will be armed with their favourite treats. Relatively fearless, don’t be surprised if they climb onto your lap and the sentry on duty chooses your shoulder or even your head as the best lookout post.

Minimum 9 years of age

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A visitor sitting alongside meerkats during a keeper-guided encounter

Otter Encounter

From: $100.00 cost per person

We are the only zoo in Australia offering the opportunity to provide a hands on, fishy lunch with our cheeky Asian small-clawed otters. You can even hold hands and feel the softness of an otter’s paw as the girls take some food from your hands.

Minimum 13 years of age

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Red panda encounter at Halls Gap Zoo

Red Panda Encounter

From: $100.00 cost per person

An unforgettable experience, during the encounter you will be seated in the enclosure, where the panda will often walk across your lap and very often brush your face with their tail as they move past. You will help feed our panda their favourite treat of fresh fruit for the day.

Minimum 9 years of age

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White rhino encounter at Halls Gap Zoo

White Rhino Encounter

From: $80.00 cost per person

Give an endangered three-ton rhino a pat and make his day with a mix of attention and his favourite food. Accompanied by two of our keepers who will ensure your safety while you meet this gentle giant, feel his lips as he gently takes hay from your hand and his thick hide as he leans towards you.

Minimum 6 years of age

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serval-encounter

Serval Encounter

From: $90.00 cost per person

Join our young Serval in her enclosure for her afternoon play session. While you entertain our Serval with one of her favourite toys, her keeper will tell you all about her.

Minimum 9 years of age

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A group of visitors seated for a guided animal encounter

Twilight Night Zoo Tours

From: $30.00 cost per person
Discover a whole new side of Halls Gap Zoo after dark. Our exclusive twilight tours offer a rare chance to explore the zoo in a relaxed, small-group setting as nocturnal animals begin to stir.
Wander the grounds with an experienced guide, enjoy unique animal encounters, and soak up the peaceful atmosphere of the Grampians at dusk and after dark.
End your evening gathered around the fire, toasting marshmallows under the stars.
Due to the uneven nature of our gravel paths and considering the tour is at least partially in the dark, we do not recommend wheelchairs or walkers.
Spots are limited—bookings essential.

Max number of people per night 48 (Max group size 16)

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Special Packages

Membership

Become a member of Halls Gap Zoo to come and go as you please with unlimited entry for 12 months! Your membership helps us to build a bigger and better zoo to help protect species for future generations.

Bring a friend along with you and they will enjoy a 10% discount on their general admission.

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Group Bookings Adults

We provide a discount for groups of people.

  • 1 to 9 Adults – $48.00 per person
  • 10 to 20 Adults – $42.00 per person
  • 21 or more Adults – $36.00 per person

Should you require an invoice, please email us at info@hallsgapzoo.com.au

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Group Booking Children

We provide a discount for groups of children.

Children are aged from 3-17yrs (under 3yrs free).

Should you require an invoice, please email us at info@hallsgapzoo.com.au

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School Bookings

OPTION 1: Keeper Guided Tour
@ 11am OR 2pm
$18.00 per child Year 12 and under
(min $250)

OPTION 2: Keeper Talk & Self-guided Tour
@10.15am OR 11.15am OR 2pm
$16.00 per child Year 12 and under
(min $200)

Ratios of 1:5 for Kinder – Yr2, 1:10 for Yr3 – Yr6 and 1:15 for Yr7 above (always 2 staff required)
Adults above the ratio will be $25 each.

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Gift Voucher

Our printable Gift Vouchers are a wonderful gift for someone special.

Vouchers can be redeemed on our website.

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Zoo Keeper for a Day Or Morning

Zoo Keeper for a Day

Spend the whole day discovering what a Zoo keeper does. Assist in daily exhibit maintenance, preparing animal diets or enrichments and feeding the animals.

Zoo Keeper for a Morning

In this experience you have the opportunity to assist a keeper for a morning. Tasks include helping with daily exhibit maintenance, preparing animal diets or enrichments.

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Animal Adoption

Here’s the perfect gift for the animal lover in your family (even if that person is you!).

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The animals involved in our encounters are conditioned to be accustomed to the interactions with visitors and participation in the encounters is voluntary for the animals. The encounters are delivered in a way to be enriching to both the animals and visitors.

what our visitors say

4.6 from 2,500 Google reviews
  • Zarli

    My partner and I have visited Halls Gap Zoo a few times now, and every visit has been amazing! This time we did the Cheetah Encounter and the Rhino Encounter, and both were absolutely incredible. Getting so close to the cheetahs to feed them was such a special…

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    My partner and I have visited Halls Gap Zoo a few times now, and every visit has been amazing! This time we did the Cheetah Encounter and the Rhino Encounter, and both were absolutely incredible. Getting so close to the cheetahs to feed them was such a special experience, and being able to pat and feed the rhino was awesome too! The zookeepers were all so friendly, welcoming, and incredibly knowledgeable. You can tell they’re passionate about the animals and genuinely love what they do. The zoo itself is such a fun place to visit. Being able to hand-feed the deer and wallabies makes it such an interactive experience, and there are so many beautiful animals to see. It’s clear that all of the animals are well looked after, loved, and cared for. We always have such a great time here and can’t wait to come back again. Highly recommend Halls Gap Zoo to anyone visiting the Grampians!

  • Arunkumar Rathinavelu

    Was a great experience. You could easily walk around the entire zoo in 2 hours. Kids enjoyed feeding peacocks and the highlight being the golden lion tamarin and cheetah.

  • Lee-Anne Dean

    Such a lovely zoo with alot more than Australian wildlife. You can pat & feed to friendly animals like goats, deers & wallabies & you can book an up close and personal experience with some like the giraffe and dingoes. Definitely recommend for a family day out…

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    Such a lovely zoo with alot more than Australian wildlife. You can pat & feed to friendly animals like goats, deers & wallabies & you can book an up close and personal experience with some like the giraffe and dingoes. Definitely recommend for a family day out.

  • Sarah Schubert

    I took my teenager there today. We both had a lovely 2 hours walking around feeding the animals and looking about. As it was a cooler day all the animals were out and about. Highly recommend for a family or for those that want to see Australian animals (and ot…

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    I took my teenager there today. We both had a lovely 2 hours walking around feeding the animals and looking about. As it was a cooler day all the animals were out and about. Highly recommend for a family or for those that want to see Australian animals (and others) up close. Definitely buy a packet out two of the feed.

  • Missy Vasjuta

    A visit to Halls Gap Zoo is a total must when visiting Halls Gap as it’s such a beautiful special place. You get to interact with the beautiful free roaming kangaroos and deer which you get to feed by hand and you just buy that on your way in which is cheap to…

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    A visit to Halls Gap Zoo is a total must when visiting Halls Gap as it’s such a beautiful special place. You get to interact with the beautiful free roaming kangaroos and deer which you get to feed by hand and you just buy that on your way in which is cheap too. The deer get a bit cheeky but they’re so super cute and fun! It has a wide variety of different animals and bird life, it’s especially great for the kids as it’s not a large zoo so you’re not walking around all day, but do see a lot of all types of animals. The staff are so very lovely and friendly and make you feel like part of their zoo family there. There’s also shows they put on and feeding the other animals which is easily booked. There’s never any huge lines to wait in so even if you don’t book your tickets it’s fine. It’s an amazing affordable time out but so hard to leave, I wouldn’t have left if I didn’t have to! Their prices are fair and the merchandise isn’t overpriced like all other zoos. I want to thank Halls Gap Zoo for their kindness and hard work xo

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