Rustic Retreat Deer Park LLC

Feed and interact with deer, bison, goats, and wolf-dogs

Family Activity4.8· 82 reviewsHours

About

Rustic Retreat Deer Park LLC is a zoo in Athelstane offering close interactions with deer, bison, goats, and wolf-dogs. We welcome guests to feed, pet, and take pictures with our well-trained animals, including baby bunnies and trumpeter swans. You can bottle-feed baby buffalo and see new babies born each year.

Reviews

Julie Nooyen
2 months ago

This place is so great! Where else can you pet wolves like they are your own dog, and not fear of anything bad happening? The new babies that are born every year are so stinking cute! ♥️🥹. Walking amongst and getting to feed deer, bison, goats, swans, fish….its so cool. Lots of smiles, lots of happiness, and getting family time while appreciating Mother Nature and all it has to offer ☺️🐺🦌🦬🦢

Cherie Flynn
2 months ago

This was fun and exciting. The bison, deer, goats and wolf-dogs were marvelous to see and feed. We felt welcomed and enjoyed the whole time. I fed the deer, goats, and 6 week old bison(Buster). I watched the full grown bison and the other bison calf (Bruiser). I also enjoyed petting the wolf-dogs. What a wonderful day!

Rachel Vandyke
3 months ago

If you're looking for something unique and memorable, this place is an absolute must-see! We got to feed deer, swans, and even buffalo, hold the sweetest baby bunnies, have some incredible up-close interactions with wolves, and one of the highlights was getting to bottle-feed a baby buffalo! The animals were amazing so was the owner, and the whole experience was unlike anything we've done before. It's one of those places that both kids and adults will love. We left with huge smiles, great memories, and way too many pictures. If you're ever in the area, I highly recommend adding it to your bucket list. This place completely exceeded our expectations and ended up being one of the coolest experiences we've had as a family. ❤️🦌🐇🦢🐃🐺🍼

Meka Reineking
3 months ago

Definitely was great experience, wish i took more photos. Me and my husband, booked the tickets kinda last min. The animals you can tell are very well cared for. The owner was super nice and you can tell he puts great pride in his animals. The experience you get from this is amazing, feeding the animals and being close up to them and getting the pet them is such a cool thing to do.!! The pricing should definitely be more, our visit was an hour and a half which didn't even feel like that!

Jack Kaucic
4 months ago

Had a wonderful time. Tom was a great host. What an excellent experience. We got to feed deer, bison , goats, trumpeter swans, and the most exciting experience was the wolf dogs. Changed my whole thoughts about Wolf. They were so friendly, just awesome! This was an experience that you probably won't get anywhere else. Take the time to go out of your way to see this, you won't be disappointed.

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    • Mon – Sun9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

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