Group Tours & Day Activities

Wilds Tours & Activities

Big Spaces, Big Animals, Big Learning Experience! Where else can you find large expanses of wetland, prairie and woodland habitat? Where else can you get close enough to feel a rhino’s breath? Where else can you learn by doing, involve your hands, heart, and mind, and have fun while doing it? The Wilds offers group day adventures of many kinds that will make wildlife conservation a life-long learning experience.

 

EDUCATION/YOUTH SAFARI

Our staff can customize an itinerary to meet the needs of your school, home school, student/education organization or club. Take a 90-minute guided safari through our open-range animal areas where you will see and learn about rare and endangered animals from around the world. You can also visit any or all of the following destination stops: Lake Trail, the Mid-Sized Carnivore Conservation Center, Wetland Trail and Outpost. Allow 30 additional minutes for each destination you visit. (There is no extra charge for adding destinations.) Your final destination will be the Overlook, where we can provide a meal for your group from one of our signature catering menu options, then wrap-up with a visit to our Gift Market. For your convenience we also offer $3, $5, and $10 gift packages an alternative to shopping at the Gift Market.
Minimum group size required. Limited availability November through April. Call for details.

Choose from one of the following:
Private Safari tours available Monday through Friday in May, September and October.
Step-On Safari tours available any day of the week May through October.

  • Students grade 12 and under: $7
  • Adults: $17
  • One adult chaperone per 8 children will be admitted free.


GROUP DAY VENTURE - Tour of the Range Pastures with a Field Program

Spend a day on the Wilds with our Education Naturalist staff and tour the expanses on a bus through herds of bison, rhino, camels, giraffe, and many other species. Choose from many other Education Programs or Interpretive Hikes that suit your school curriculum or your group’s interests.

Group Day Ventures are available year round.

Sample Itinerary

  • Students grade 12 and under: $225 for up to 15 participants plus $15 for each additional participant
  • Adults: $25/participant
  • One adult chaperone per 8 children admitted free
  • Catered lunch available
  • Dates: available year round
  • Capacity: up to 80 participants

For more intensive programming see our Overnight Safari Camps.


WILD HANDS - Community Service Projects for Groups

Here’s a great way to get your class, club, or group involved in helping the Wilds grow as a conservation facility. Our Naturalist and Restoration Ecology staff have many projects that need additional hands. If you believe in the mission of the Wilds then this is the day event for you. Past groups have helped us construct osprey hacking towers, repair fences, build trails, plant forest and prairie areas, landscape, develop teaching materials, eliminate alien invaders, and construct trails. Community Service projects are one way that your group can give back to the earth.

  • Cost: $5/participant
  • Dates: year round (depending on staff availability)
  • Capacity:10-20


COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS – The Wilds Comes to Your School or Group

Are you interested in one of our Education staff doing a program at your school, club, or organization? You can have in-class presentations of the interpretation of antlers & skulls, the importance of dung in biology, or a field trip on your grounds to survey habitats. The Wilds can also do PowerPoint presentations of Conservation in Action, Reclaiming the Birds, and Raptors on the Wilds.

  • Cost: $70 plus $10 for each additional presentation in SE Ohio area (price determined by distance traveled otherwise)
  • Dates: November - March
  • Capacity: dependent on your meeting space


Prices and availability are subject to change. Advance reservations are required. Call 740-638-5030 or e-mail reservations@thewilds.org.