We have a well-stocked gift shop that includes all the favourite items such as fluffy toys, locally produced dinosaur fossils etc. Should you like any items posted to an address, please contact our staff at reception.
Your purchases assist us continue our work and constantly improve our zoo and the care we provide our animals.
We recommend you purchase your tickets and pre-book your encounters online.
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OUR ENCOUNTERS
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.
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.
Group Bookings Adults
We provide a discount for groups of people.
- 1 to 9 Adults – $42.00 per person
- 10 to 20 Adults – $37.00 per person
- 21 or more Adults – $30.00 per person
Should you require an invoice, please email us at info@hallsgapzoo.com.au
Group Booking Children
We provide a discount for groups of children.
Children are aged from 3-17yrs (under 3yrs free).
- 1 to 14 Children – $21.00 per child
- 15 or more Children – $19.00 per child
- School booking – Click here
Should you require an invoice, please email us at info@hallsgapzoo.com.au
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.
Animal Adoption
Here’s the perfect gift for the animal lover in your family (even if that person is you!).
Gift Voucher
Our printable Gift Vouchers are a wonderful gift for someone special.
Vouchers can be redeemed on our website.
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.
Donation
The Halls Gap Zoo is 100% privately owned and operated.
We are continually investing and improving the zoo as a major tourism attraction in the Grampians.
Visitation and donations are critical for zoos, as they help fund new enclosures, breeding programs for endangered species and visits from veterinarians.
We would greatly appreciate any contribution you could make to the Halls Gap Zoo.
Your purchase assists and enables us to continue our work to constantly improve our animal welfare, conservation, and educational experiences.
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Today we are looking at the Southern White Rhino:
🦏 Their horns are continually growing and is made from keratin just like our hair and nails.
🦏 They are grazers
🦏They can run up to 40kmh per hour
🦏 They weigh up to 2700kgs and babies are born weighing around 60kgs
Photo of the handsome Kapamba celebrating his 29th birthday with some presents. #grampians #nationalpark #visitmelbourneaustralia
Today is also International Tasmanian Devil Day.
We have 3 devils here at Halls Gap Zoo and you may see our new boys Messi and Knuckles out exploring their enclosure or Arti next door trying to suss out what the new boys are up to.
Messi and knuckles came from Aussie Ark who do an amazing job of breeding Tassie devils to help conserve this endangered species. In the wild devil populations have significantly reduced due to the Devil facial tumour disease, it is unfortunately a contagious cancer which is spread when they interact with each other primarily through biting but through breeding programs like Aussie Arks we are able to breed animals that are tumour free and have a healthy population of devils to conserve the species while scientists work on how to stop the disease spreading.
📸 keeper Darci
🐊🐊NEW ENCOUNTER🐊🐊 We are very excited to announce that we are now offering crocodile encounters where you can enter the croc pool and have a ride on Jugs. Some might say this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Don’t worry we have safety at the forefront of our minds so riders must leave phones, jewellery, shoes and hats outside as to not give jugs a stomach ache.
Everyone gets to watch and at the same time we will also have one of our keepers doing a croc feed talk at the front of the exhibit.
Jugs can’t wait to meat you all!
Summer is over and we can slowly start to relax a little bit after such a stressful few months with the fires in the Grampians impacting the wildlife, the residents, visitors and all the surrounding businesses.
Now that the school holidays are almost here there is no better time to visit to show your support to the whole community the fires are gone the weather is beautiful the gift shop is stocked and all the animals are ready to welcome everyone for a busy school holidays we have lots planned from keeper talks, new encounters, Easter fun and even some animal birthday parties planned so lock in a date for a day trip or better yet come stay for a few nights to really soak in the Grampians and go on a hike, eat some ice cream, let someone else cook and clean the dishes for you and relax with a nice walk around the Zoo and book in to meet our friendly animals for an encounter you will remember-even the kids will go back to school remembering the meerkat they fed or the rhino they got to pat instead of telling their teacher they had McDonald’s for lunch one day.
Pre book for encounters via our website
Check out Parks Victoria website for hikes that are open within the National Park
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Today is all about the beautiful Emperor Tamarins 🥰
🐒 Females will usually give birth to twins and the whole family participate in raising the babies, they will carry them on their backs and pass them back to mum for a feed.
🐒 They live in family groups of around 15 animals
🐒 They have claws rather than nails and this adaptation allows them to cling to the trees
🐒Remember Monkeys are not pets and interacting with ‘cute’ monkey videos on social media contributes to the illegal pet trade.
🌟🌟Come and meet our baby wombat Sprout before he is wheeled away to his new home 🥹
Sprout is our very loveable and cheeky wombat and during an encounter you will get to pat him, watch him get the zoomies, take him for a little walk (unless the grass is especially delicious that day) and learn facts about all wombats and the 4 that call Halls Gap Zoo home. 🌟🌟
🔥 We are currently taking bookings till the end of school holidays.
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This week is all about Quokkas.
🌿 Quokkas are actually a species of Wallaby.
🌿They can go for up to a month without drinking water as they get most of their moisture requirement from the plants they eat.
🌿Quokkas can climb trees, believe it or not these guys can actually climb up to 2m to access some of their favourite leaves from trees.
Our little Quokka Ember is getting so big so quickly and even though she isn’t on display just yet you can book an encounter with her and get that perfect Quokka selfie and then feed her one of her favourite treats.
Visit the link below to book:
https://hallsgapzoo.com.au/encounters/
Week 5 of Fast Facts Friday, and we are looking up to our Giraffes. Literally!
🦒 Male giraffes are larger than females, weighing in at up to 1,900kg and often at a height of more than 5 meters tall.
🦒 They have a prehensile tongue which can extend 45cm.
🦒 Giraffe average 2 hours sleep a day, one of the shortest sleep requirements out of all mammals.
🦒 After 15 months of gestation, the female will give birth standing up. The young will drop to the floor and then stand, walk and feed within a few hours of being born. They are around 1.8m at birth and weigh 60-70kgs.
We have three giraffes at the Zoo who are all very observant. They know when someone is watching them.
Happy International Women’s Day! 🌸 Today, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and achievements of women everywhere, but especially the amazing women we have on our team here at the Zoo who work through rain, hail and shine lifting bales of hay, carrying heavy branches, drilling holes, getting covered in dirt and mud and so much more to make sure our animals are cared for. Keep shining and keep supporting one another 💖💖
#internationalwomensday #lifteachotherup
🍀We are open every day this long weekend 🍀
Come and meet our animals, all our encounters are available this weekend (unless already booked), grab an ice cold drink from our food van 🧋 and enjoy seeing our animals exploring their enclosures in the sunshine ☀️
#longweekend #longweekendadventures #melbourne #hallsgapzoo #nationalpark #hallsgap #grampiansnationalpark #visitmelbourne
Fast Fact Friday’s subject for week 4 is our Meerkats, which is infact a type of mongoose, rather than a type of cat.
😎 Meerkats are highly observant and will use their long tail like a tripod with their legs to maintain a steady stance and higher vantage point.
😎 They live in groups of up to 30 individuals, where they will take turns in each role within the mob. This includes caring for the young, foraging or hunting, and sentry duty (standing guard for predators such snakes or eagles).
😎 Meerkat eyes are surrounded by dark circles to reduce glare from the sun. These ‘natural sunglasses’ allow them to spot predators easier in the open desert.
😎 They dig ‘bolt holes’ which are safe trenches for them to escape to in emergencies when they are foraging.
Our cheeky boys love their peas and corn. Hence, we had to name one of them Peas and his Brother was dubbed Corn.
