Emerald Coast Zoo, Crestview

About Emerald Coast Zoo

Emerald Coast Zoo in Crestview is a zoo featuring hands-on animal encounters where visitors interact directly with resident animals. Guests can feed giraffes and giant tortoises, pet sloths, and hop with kangaroos and wallabies in their enclosure. The zoo offers encounters with penguins, where zookeepers assist visitors in feeding them as they swim and fish. Other interactive experiences include feeding colorful birds with seed sticks for photography, treating a black bear with honey while learning about bear habitats, interacting with a hyena, and hugging a boa constrictor to experience the snake's strength and beauty. The zoo houses one of the world's longest snakes and Crestview's tallest resident animal. These animal encounters suit visitors of various ages, with some activities restricted to ages five and up or twelve and up, and children requiring adult accompaniment. The zoo charges admission and publishes its prices online.