Kids Only WildNight Information

Safety & Rules

Rules

We follow a three-warning system during WildNights, the Zoo reserves the right to call home/emergency contacts at any point in the program and ask that a child be picked up and removed from the program. Our warning system is outlined below:

Verbal warning from the program mentor, and suggestions on making better choices.
Verbal warning and possible removal from the activity.
Removal from activity and call home.

If the behavior continues after the three warnings a call home will be made. In some situations, we may ask the child to be picked up from the Zoo. All guardians are obligated to pick up their child if/when a mentor calls to request to send home a child, and they must be picked up within 1 hour of the phone call.

Safety

This is the foremost consideration for all WildNight programs. Participants will be given program rules upon arrival and are expected to follow these rules during their entire stay at the Zoo. For everyone’s safety, we reserve the right to end the program for the individual/group if the rules are not respected. Please remember that there may be other programs or special events going on in the Zoo during your child’s visit, courtesy and respect for all participants are essential to the success of these programs.

The Zoo is VERY dark at night. Please wear good walking shoes and bring flashlight or a headlamp.

Program Schedule

6 p.m. – Zoo staff will meet you at the front gate to sign you in and collect waivers

6:15 p.m. – We will enjoy a sit down pizza party dinner. After dinner we will head outside to roast s’mores over a charcoal grill. Alternative dessert will be available if weather doesn’t allow us to have a fire.

7 p.m. – Evening tour will begin! During your evening we will explore three buildings:
– Elephant Barn in Water’s Edge: Africa
– Giraffe Barn in African Rift Valley – feed the giraffe
– The Loft – meet and touch an animal ambassador

9 p.m. – Wind down activity and bedtime.

6:30 a.m. – Wake up, pack up and grab breakfast for an on the go tour.

7:15 a.m. – Morning tour of either Primate World or Rocky Mountain Wild exhibits.

8 a.m. – WildNight concludes and the kiddos will meet parents/guardians at the front entrance of the Zoo.