Palm Beach County property records list the current owner as Lion Country Safari Inc. Lion Country joined zoos such as the Dallas Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park on the list. A separate walk-through area of the park includes a restaurant and multiple water slides for families.Įarlier this month, Lion Country was named one of the “10 Best Savanna Exhibits” in the world by Zoo Nation, an organization that promotes conservation of imperiled species. Visitors can view many of the animals up close and uncaged from their vehicles during a four-mile drive-through tour. It is home to one of the largest herd of rhinos and zebras in the country. The attraction, covering more than 600 acres, houses about 1,000 animals from six continents, officials said. The park was initially developed by a group of South African and British entrepreneurs, according to its website. “We have an experienced management team in place here,” Berthiaume noted. In an email Tuesday, Lion Country spokeswoman Jennifer Berthiaume said that no staffing changes were planned under the new ownership. Lion Country Safari, situated in Loxahatchee on the county’s western edge, opened 50 years ago and has attracted 25 million visitors in that time. She said plans for the Greenwich zoological center, a nonprofit breeding reserve for rare and endangered animals, are “in flux” and “unfolding.” Its operations could either be expanded or reduced, she said. The asking price for Lionshare is $39 million, according to a May article on. The rest of the memories are pretty good though.Leone, who divorced in 2016, confirmed that the Lionshare property is up for sale. I'd rather have zither music stuck in my head than that memory haunting my dreams. Thanks a LOT - I'll be sleeping with my head under the covers tonight. I do remember that evil, possessed, zebra-striped Jeep ride, though. I don't remember the train at all (the photo shows was built by Crown Metal Products, but I can't seem to find any information on it), and I'm not sure I'm remembering the safari boat or mixing it up with a similar boat at Florida's Silver Springs. Although Frasier had passed four years earlier, I'm sure that many of them were his descendants. And there seemed to be a LOT of them, all piled up together. The only animals that seemed to be inactive were the lions. Not sure if that's accurate or not I might be conflating that with any one of dozens of zoos I've visited over the years. I have a vague memory of the hippos (which would have included Bubbles) being in a separate area. I remember seeing a rhino out with the other herbivores in the drive-thru area, but I don't remember seeing any hippos from the car. Not sure if it was the temperature or the time of day or what, but they were pretty active. On the day we visited in January of '76, I remember there being a lot of animals out and moving around in the safari area. I recently wrote about most of my LCS memories in a comment on another blog, so I won't rehash those here, but your post has jogged a few more memories. It kept company with brochures for many other places we visited or contemplated visiting and guidebooks and maps from places like Mission San Gabriel, Alcatraz Island, and a couple of obscure Orange County amusement parks you've probably never heard of. TM!, I had a copy of that exact same early brochure that lived in the top drawer of the left-hand end table in the living room throughout my entire childhood. The slides are dated March, 1975 and these are all in the order that they were taken. Here are the pictures that were taken at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee. The set included pics of Walt Disney World (which I have posted in the past), Cypress Gardens, Busch Gardens, and Lion Country Safari. About ten years ago, I acquired a family's set of Florida vacation slides from 1975. (In 1981, the Irvine Meadows Amphitheater was built on a portion of Lion Country Safari's land but it was torn down in November of 2016 and will be replaced with more apartments.)Īs I mentioned earlier, the original Lion Country Safari in Florida is still operating. Wild Rivers closed in 2011 and the Los Olivos Apartment Village sits on most of the property today. Wild Rivers waterpark was built on the site two years later. The death knell for Lion Country Safari itself, came when the park went bankrupt and closed permanently in 1984. I saved a lot of newspaper clippings from childhood, but unfortunately the obituaries for the two Lion Country Safari residents are long gone. I remember reading articles about the death of both of the animals and sharing the one about Frasier during "current events" at school.
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