About the Event
This year’s Fall Fest features ticketed attractions throughout the zoo, including a Fun Slide, Ferris wheel, inflatable activities, and much more. While you stroll through the decorated gardens bursting with fall color, you’ll enjoy free musical entertainment, professional pumpkin carvers, a pumpkin patch, and fall-themed enrichment for the animals. Every weekend will offer something new!
Rides and Attractions:
Rides
This year’s festival features ticketed attractions throughout the zoo, including a Fun Slide, the Fall Game Zone, inflatable attractions such as a bounce house, and much more.
Fall Popups
Enjoy fall classics such as picking out pumpkins, roasting s’mores, fall themed food, and more!
- Pumpkin Patch
- Performers
- Photo Ops
- Live Pumpkin Carving
- Penguin Encounters
- Rock Climbing at Farm in the Zoo
Animal Enrichment and Learning Chats:
10:30 a.m. Seals
3 p.m. Cows/Pigs
Schedule of Events:
10 a.m: Fall Garden Tours
Wander through the colors of fall at your zoo! Lead by a zoo horticulturalist, this free guided tour will showcase the seasonal plants in Lincoln Park Zoo’s accredited gardens. Meet at the Visitor Center to join!
10 a.m.—noon: Nature Play at Wild Sapling Play Forest
Explore the sights, smells, and textures that nature has to offer during this free, open-ended experience. Complete an art project, sift and scoop at the dig bins, join an author-led story time, or explore natural items up close!
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