Columbian Park Zoo

12/30/2024

📣SPOTS STILL REMAINING! Our Winter 2025 Homeschool Academy sessions start January 14! Let the Zoo enhance your homeschool environment with a series of fun workshops designed to engage and educate. During the 4-week Homeschool Academy series, students will learn about the series topic with a mix of classroom-based and outside-the-classroom activities designed to provide opportunities for collaboration and socialization while building important science inquiry skills.

Zoo Members receive a 15% discount on Homeschool Academy registration!
Registration fees cover the entire series (all four sessions for your selected age group.)
Register now on our online registration portal: https://secure.rec1.com/IN/lafayette-parks-recreation-in/catalog

12/25/2024

Hope your day is holly jolly!😃

12/24/2024

Wishing you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! Our CPZ Administrative Office will be closed today and tomorrow in observance of the holiday.

12/20/2024

Did you know that our resident emus have festive names?? Check out this video of Holly, Jolly, and Jingles enjoying some holiday-themed enrichment!🎁

12/18/2024

Wallaby Wednesday? Why not?!🍂

12/17/2024

Looking for a fun way to give back this holiday season? This year’s CPZ Giving Tree has a twist. Visit Buckles Feed Depot & Pet Supply to purchase a gift card for the zoo animals, write your name and contact info on the back, and you could win a free WILD ENCOUNTER with the eligible zoo animal of your choice!

Your generous holiday donations help us provide our animals with mentally and physically stimulating enrichment items all year long! Plus you’re supporting a local business, too. Getting entered to win a free animal encounter makes it a WIN-WIN-WIN!

12/14/2024

💥📣TODAY ONLY!

Buy a special holiday edition Symbolic Adoption Box for an animal lover in your life and get one FREE! Choose from OTTER, PENGUIN, or Lafayette's favorite LLAMA!

Each Symbolic Adoption Gift box comes wrapped and ready and includes a cute and cuddly plush friend, an adoption certificate, a keepsake photo of the CPZ resident you've adopted, and a fun fact sheet to learn more about their species. Your $50 purchase benefits the Zoo and it's conservation education initiatives. And today only you get TWO gifts to give for one $50 fee!

Ways to buy:

1. Swing by the Zoo Education Center today until 5pm at 2404 Wallace Avenue (exact cash, check and credit sales)

2. Order online at https://secure.rec1.com/IN/lafayette-parks-recreation-in/catalog and visit the Gifts for Zoo lovers tab. Pick up at the Zoo or we can ship for an additional fee (note choose pick up to be sure you receive it by Christmas!)

3. Order by phone at 765-807-1555 today only

12/12/2024

Whoooo’s ready for the weekend?

12/12/2024

Let the Zoo enhance your homeschool environment with a series of fun workshops designed to engage and educate. Registration is now open for our Winter 2025 Homeschool Academy sessions! During the 4-week series, students will learn about the series topic with a mix of classroom-based and outside-the-classroom activities designed to provide opportunities for collaboration and socialization while building important science inquiry skills.

Zoo Members receive a 15% discount on Homeschool Academy registration!
Registration fees cover the entire series (all four sessions for your selected age group.)
Register now on our online registration portal: https://secure.rec1.com/IN/lafayette-parks-recreation-in/catalog

12/11/2024

📣📣LAST CALL! Need some kid-free time to work on your holiday to-do list?! You're in luck! Join us THIS Saturday, December 14 for our Holiday Drop & Shop!😃 Bring your 5-12 year olds for a day of fun zoo crafts, games, activities and animal encounters. Members take 30% off the registration fee!

Today is the LAST DAY to register: https://secure.rec1.com/IN/lafayette-parks-recreation-in/catalog

12/10/2024

GIVE…and GET! This year’s CPZ Giving Tree has a twist. Visit Buckles Feed Depot & Pet Supply to purchase a gift card for the zoo animals, write your name and contact info on the back, and you could win a free WILD ENCOUNTER with the eligible zoo animal of your choice!

Your generous holiday donations help us provide our animals with mentally and physically stimulating enrichment items all year long! Plus you’re supporting a local business, too. Getting entered to win a free animal encounter makes it a WIN-WIN-WIN!

12/10/2024

12/10/2024

Help us give a final thanks to these Reindeer Rendezvous sponsors: Mattcon General Contractors, Inc. & Purdue Federal Credit Union! Thank you for your support!

12/09/2024

🚨GREAT GIFT ALERT🚨

We have Symbolic Adoption Gift Boxes for sale in special holiday editions! Perfect for the animal lover in your life, this gift box comes with a plush animal, a certificate of adoption, a photo of the CPZ resident adopted, and a fun fact sheet to impress the family at your holiday gatherings!

Available boxes:

🦦 All of the OTTER Reindeer
🐧 It’s a Wonderful PENGUIN
🦙 Fa-la-la-la LLAMA (includes a bonus gift!)

Order yours online by 12/13 to get it in time for Christmas! Box orders can be picked up at the zoo, or shipped for an additional fee. While supplies last! Proceeds support the zoo’s education initiatives.

Link to our registration portal from our website and check them out on the Gifts For Zoo Lovers tab or use the link below 👇

https://secure.rec1.com/IN/lafayette-parks-recreation-in/catalog/tab/18881/dc256e2dcf67cc988b2ec89ecb722830

12/08/2024

Lucy heard Santa was here for Reindeer Rendezvous and had to tell him what she wants for Christmas!

But is she on the naughty or nice list 🤔

Visit our Amazon wishlist to see what all the animals want:

https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ABLABDRFIYMH/ref=hz_ls_biz_ex

12/08/2024

Plans today? Plenty of spaces available to try to get off of the naughty list this year….Santa, Mrs. Claus, their reindeer and sleigh are all at Columbian Park Zoo for Reindeer Rendezvous. Free cookies, crafts, and train rides for all ticket holders.

https://www.universe.com/events/reindeer-rendezvous-with-columbian-park-zoo-2024-tickets-4KL703

12/08/2024

WOW! What an amazing first day of Reindeer Rendezvous with the Zoo!! 😍 We had a blast, taking photos with Santa, meeting his reindeer, crafting, writing letters to Santa, learning with our Zoo Education Elves, enjoying free cookies, and taking rides on the Columbian Park Polar Express! We can’t wait to do it all again tomorrow!

Purchase tickets online: https://bit.ly/3YMaeIQ

Reindeer Rendezvous with the Zoo is a fundraiser for the Lafayette Parks Foundation. All proceeds benefit the Columbian Park Zoo and are used to fund capital improvements, various Zoo projects, and educational programs. Thank you for your support of this annual fundraising event! We can't wait to see you there!