Ponderosa Zoo

29/09/2025

Join us down at the Lakeside Restaurant for our delicious Sunday carvery, served every Sunday! 🤩
Call us on 01924 404604 or email us on [email protected] to book! 🐾

28/09/2025

📢 Important Notice! 📢

Our catering outlets are now open on the following days:
🐾 The Pizza Shed will only be open Fridays - Mondays
🐾 The Lakeside Restaurant will only be open on Sundays
🐾 The Coffee Shop will be open daily

If you have any questions, please contact our friendly team on 01924 404604! ✨

27/09/2025

Our lemur walkthrough is open daily 11am - 12pm and 1:30pm - 2:30pm! 🐾

26/09/2025

📢 Congratulations to Kelly Goddard for winning our Otter Encounter competition! Please email us on [email protected] to get booked in for your prize!

Don't forget that we run monthly competitions, so don't miss out and make sure to follow us on our social media!

26/09/2025

Would you like to get involved?🐾 At Ponderosa, our aim is to become more sustainable, so we are encouraging our customers to donate any unwanted items such as pallets, branches, firehose, barrels and tyres! 😁 Many of our enrichment devices are made by our keepers of whom get creative and crafty to bring our animals new puzzles and toys for mental stimulation! 🦦 Items like barrels, hose and tyres make great climbing enrichment and we use pallets and branches to create bug hotels, as well as fences, for our native conservation programmes, natural decor for our animals and even homes for our own wild animals on site! 🌿 We accept these items as donations so if you have anything laying around that you think maybe of use to us, then drop us an email on [email protected] or call us on 01924 235276 to speak with one of our friendly staff! 😊 Items like these go a long way! 🌻

25/09/2025

Our animal talks are on daily - Scottish wildcats at 11am, Asian short clawed otters at 12pm and serval at 1pm - come and see some of our most elusive animals be fed by a zookeeper! 🐾

24/09/2025

Tickets for our Halloween party are now on sale! Tickets must be pre-booked in advance! 👻 🎃

Kids Party at Ponderosa Zoo - Halloween Special! Join us for an unforgettable Kids Party at Ponderosa Lakeside Restaurant on 30th October, from 4pm to 8pm! Get ready for a spooky evening of fun and excitement! Here’s what we’ve got in store: DJ & Music: Dance to your favorite tunes with our live...

24/09/2025

We love to see your drawings! 🤩 When we receive drawings, they are put on display in our reptile house for all of our customers to see 🦎 If you have drawn one of our animals, we want to see it! 😁 Contact our friendly team either via email on [email protected] or via phone on 01924 235276 for more information 🐾

23/09/2025

Exciting Announcement! ✨
We are looking for stallholders for our 2026 art and craft fair! 🤩
If you are interested in joining us, please send our friendly team an email on [email protected] for some more information! 🐾

22/09/2025

Join us down at the Lakeside Restaurant for our delicious Sunday carvery, served every Sunday! 🤩
Call us on 01924 404604 or email us on [email protected] to book! 😁