Location: St. Augustine
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Top 5 Nature & Wildlife Areas in St. Augustine, Florida (FL)
Saint Augustine is a luxurious, romantic vacation spot—you’ll find classic hotels and intimate restaurants. Those can be a dime a dozen, though. What sets Saint Augustine apart is its history—it’s the oldest European settlement in the U.S. And nowhere else in the world can you taste the waters of the Fountain of Youth Archeological Park (where Ponce de Leon may have landed). Who knows, if you vacation here, maybe you won’t need that Botox!
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1. St. Augustine Wild Reserve
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5.0 based on 2,026 reviews
The St. Augustine Wild Reserve offers tours by appointment on Mon, Wed, and Sat at 2pm. We also offer a VIP tour Friday at noon. Email to make reservations. Guests will be given a tour of the Reserve by a wildlife professional. An intro to each species & how the species arrived here will be discussed. Visitors will have a close-up view of the exotic animals, and will venture closer to adult lions and tigers than they ever imagined. Meet our amazing white tigers, orange tigers, golden tabby tiger, cougars, servals, lynxes, leopards, hyenas, & wolves. We feed all big cats on the tours, and set up a tiger bubblebath. It gets exciting when the big cats eat! You will also howl with the wolves at tour's end. We don't allow photography; we offer a photo flash drive for a small donation, as well as refrigerator magnets of our favorite animals. To book a tour, log onto bookeo.com/tigertours. Cost is $30/adults; kids 10 & under, $20.00; and kids 2 and under, free!
Reviewed By Go753066
We absolutely loved this!!!! They do amazing work with these animals. Delightful to see people who truly love animals and take such wonderful care of them. They give a fantastic tour with amazing information about all of their animals. A must see if you are in this area.
2. Sea Turtle Hospital at Whitney Lab
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5.0 based on 3 reviews
Reviewed By Debstoryteller - St. Augustine, United States
We took a tour of the turtle hospital. It was such a detailed tour including the operating room, feeding station and turtle rehab pools. The staff is doing an amazing job rescuing and helping the turtles. This was very informative and there was an interactive exhibit for children as well. It would be best for children 6 and older.
3. St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park
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4.5 based on 3,847 reviews
Reviewed By Photochic1 - Beaufort, United States
The Alligator Farm has lots and lots of alligators from the US and also from other countries. In spring and early summer there are also hundreds of birds making nests and making baby birds in the rear area of the Farm. You can see Roseate Spoonbills, Snowy Egrets, Cattle Egrets, Black-Crowned Night Herons, Yellow-Crowned Nigh Herons, Wood Storks, Egrets, White Ibises, Little Blue Herons, Green Herons and Great Blue Herons.
