Come experince a place where people and animals get closer together!

Located in Thurmont, MD, Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo offers over 25 beautifully wooded and landscaped acres and gardens with animals who jump, swim, fly, roar and tweet to greet you.

Endearing sun bears, energetic lemurs from Madagascar, kangaroos and dingoes from “down under” and some of the rarest and most entertaining monkeys in the world await you. Dangle your fingers among a hundred brilliantly colored Japanese koi in the Japanese Garden, and watch the sunlight on the ripples of its calming waters. Feed the dozens of free flying ducks and geese wandering among our ponds.