Tennessee Safari Park is located at 618 Conley Road, Alamo, TN – about a 2 ½ hour drive west of Nashville. You still see the animals up close without feeding them.
If your child gets scared, just roll up the window.If you have younger children, it would be wise to bring another adult to sit with them and help them manage.Know that you will have to clean out food from your car afterward, wipe off nose prints from the doors and windows, and you will find pieces of food in your floorboard for months to come.Setting them on the dash or console, or anywhere they can be seen, will only encourage the animals to try to eat from them. Keep the extra buckets of food on the floor of the car.The animal would just come right in after the food. Some of the animals can be a little aggressive – not scary, but they want that food – so my kid would pull back from the window and bring the bucket inside the car. If you hold the food outside the window, they don’t have to stick their head in. I didn’t like the animal’s head in my car, and they make a mess eating. Hold the bucket of food on the outside of the window, not on the inside.You don’t even know what is happening yet and your whole bucket of food is gone! Refer to Tip #4. The camels that stand right at the front of the park are the worst.
They know how to take the whole bucket from unsuspecting people. They have signs up that say, “Zebras Bite.” I can attest to that, but only because my finger was in the way of the food.
And once you empty one, you’ll want to pour some food from a full bucket into the empty one in case it gets stolen (refer to Tip #6). Hillcrest Farm, which now contains Tennessee Safari Park, has been through many changes throughout its time, but it has always remained in the same family. You can only buy them at the front and when you’re out, you’re out. Buy more buckets of food than you think you’ll need.There are no stops along the way, and you cannot get out of your car. There is a really nice park for the kids to play on and if it is in season, they have a public swimming pool in the Eiffel Tower Park. Be sure to stop for the restroom before starting the drive-through safari. A post shared by RaeAnna Goss (sewingmamaraeanna) on at 6:38pm PDT.You do not want to run out of gas out there. Be sure you have a full tank of gas before you go! It’s over 5 miles of slow driving and idling.In addition to the drive-through safari, there is a safari walk, petting zoo, gift shop, and concessions. But I was reassured by friends that it isn’t scary, you really drive slowly the whole way through, and can stop as often as you’d like. I’ll admit, I was pretty nervous about going to Safari Park and having animals poking their head in my car, while I’m trying to drive and manage my kid who may be freaking out about it too. It was a super fun getaway and all within a 3 hour drive from home. We planned a little weekend vacation and visited Discovery Park of America in Union City first, spent the night in Dyersberg, then headed to Tennessee Safari Park the next day. The Park entrance, 255 Briar Thicket Road is on the left. to TN-160, exit 12 to Lowland/Morristown (one of several Morristown exits) Turn right at Enka Highway. Turn Right onto the I-40 East entry ramp. It can be a fun day trip from Nashville or make it a weekend, like we did. From the Great Smoky Mountains: Take TN-66, North to I-40. It is unlike other zoos because, at Safari Park, you drive right through the fields where the animals live and can feed all the animals you encounter along the way. © 2021 THE TENNESSEE TITANS.Tennessee Safari Park is the wildest zoo (literally) that I have ever visited.