On our visit to Gramma’s we visited a neat children’s petting zoo called Fort Rickey Discovery Zoo, located near Rome, NY. I used to go here as a child, and although it wasn’t exactly like I remember, it brought back a lot of memories!
In the petting area there is animal food available for purchase and you can feed the deer, which you can also feed this food to any hoofed animal in the park. Also in this area is a little pond on which you can take out the paddle boats and feed the fish. In the picture above that’s me, Sweet Pea, another family and a deer watching the fish jump up to practically eat food right out of our hands!
Fort Rickey is rather small, but that allows you to spend time checking out each animal, like donkey and goats…
or just jumping into a huge pit of balls in their playground structure!
Sweet Pea really liked feeding the different animals that he was allowed to feed. He also liked the baby goats, although you aren’t really supposed to feed them (they need a sign).
My guys were fascinated getting up close to the animals, and even more tickled that they could feed some! The variety of animals wasn’t that huge, but that was a good thing for us because it got the boys asking some good questions and noticing how the animals we saw were alike and how others were different (think different kinds of deer, a couple of otters, bunnies, turtles and snakes).
I would definitely recommend checking out Fort Rickey if you are in the Rome, NY area. It seemed like just the perfect activity for kids my boy’s ages!
(The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of me and my children. We have received no compensation for this review from Fort Rickey or any other source.)
That looks like lots of fun, I can hardly wait until my daughter is old enough to enjoy fun kid stuff. At 9 months, I’m happy if she doesn’t eat anything while I’m crafting, LOL!
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I am glad you dropped by Happy Hour and I came back to say, it doesn’t have to be a crafting post! I LOVE new projects but you may link up your mom posts (like this!) or anything else new. We blog because we like to share, right? So feel free. 🙂
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Hi Trish, Oh, I forgot all about Fort Rickey. We will have to take SMQ there perhaps next summer when we are in NY. It would make such a great day trip. Pics of the boys are so cute! Love ya!
looks like lots of fun
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