On Site Tours
Contact: (423) 368-0559
by appointment only
-closed for the season-
256 County Road 115, Athens, TN 37303
You can come visit our farm and take a guided tour to meet all the animals, including ones no longer in our mobile programs. Each tour is 1 hour and 30 minutes long and includes a petting zoo portion as well as an exotic animal encounter portion.
-Adult Tickets are $25 per person and will include all 5 animal encounters as well as animal food.
-Child Tickets are $15 per child age 4-7 and will include most but not all encounters.
-0-3 Tickets are free for children 3 years old or younger. These children must be held while inside animal enclosures.
Encounters
Kangaroo and wallaby
African Crested porcupine
Capybara and Tortoise
Mountain Coati (18+ only)**
Patagonian Cavy
Solomon Island Eclectus Parrot
Arctic Foxes (8+)
Encounter means you will be inside the enclosure with the animal, your tour guide, and your tour group. It also means you will have the option to feed Most animals.
There are some animals on the tour who are not available for an encounter but can still be observed from outside the enclosure. These include the prairie dogs, Javelinas, and the golden pheasant.
**If you want the coati encounter included in your ticket comment "coati" In red oval section when you book
Petting zoo
Nigerian dwarf goats
baby doll sheep
emu
Highland Calf
Important Information
We are a working farm which means...
You must wear closed toed shoes
You must sign a waiver before beginning your tour
We are not wheel chair or stroller accessible
Service dogs are allowed on the property but for the safety and comfort of our animals they are not allowed inside the enclosures. we reserve the right to ask a service dog to leave for any behavior we deem stressful to our animals. If your service dog is asked to leave we will not refund your ticket.
Cancellation policy
If you need to cancel, do so as soon as possible. We will issue you a refund if you cancel a week in advance or more. If you cancel less than a week in advance we cannot refund your ticket. Weather related cancellations less than a week in advance will have the option to reschedule or refund.
Tours are done for the season. we will resume tours in the spring!