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Places where they save wild and domestic animals and that you can visit either by public or private tours!

Jump to Animal Sanctuaries & Wildlife Centers in: Queens, Westchester, Long Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Upstate NY, Pennsylvania

QUEENS

  • Alley Pond Environmental Center– Located in Alley Pond Park, a place to visit their 80 animal ambassadors and take part in various programs…

WESTCHESTER

  • Greenburgh Nature Center– Playground, wigwams, hiking trails and a cool nature center where you can interact and learn about various critters…
  • The Wolf Conservation Center– Get to know them, camp along side them. or go just for a day-trip and hear them howl…
  • Weinberg Nature Center– Beautiful trails to walk and over 40 animals to meet, trail side museum too…
  • Edith G Read Natural Park & Wildlife Sanctuary– 179 acre wildlife sanctuary close to Rye, different environments for walking through and great bird watching as well as deer, free too…
  • Westmoreland Sanctuary– 640 acres mainly great for hiking and nature walks, but also has a museum and lots of programming and classes for all ages from maple sugaring to amphibian night hikes…

LONG ISLAND

  • Holtsville Park Wildlife Center– Almost a zoo with lots of injured or non-releasable domestic and exotic animals to see…
  • Uplands Farm Sanctuary by The Nature Conservancy– Former dairy farm turned into nature conservancy offer 2.5 miles of trails to wonder through bird and butterfly meadows…
  • Sweet Briar Nature Center– Animals housed for rehab with a few gardens and some playground areas…

CONNECTICUT

  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center– Great museum, farm and park plus some art, trails and a playground, a place to spend a day…

NEW JERSEY

  • Insectropolis– Knowledgable staff will show you how to pet millipeds and scorpions, definitely for the bug obsessed…
  • Lakota Wolf Preserve– Educational tours to observe wolves… make a reservation…
  • The Raptor Trust– See a wide variety of raptors being rehabilitated… self-visit (free) or reserve a tour…
  • Funny Farm Rescue & Sanctuary– Voted one of the best and biggest animal rescues in North-East USA… over 600 animals to meet, feed and pet and most of them will come right up to you…amazing!
  • The Happy Animal Sanctuary– Small sanctuary with kind and knowledgeable owners, contact them for visiting/volunteering…
  • The Barnyard Sanctuary– They house farm pets that need a new home for various reasons… absolutely wonderful owners… for visiting/volunteering info, contact them on website…
  • Indraloka Animal Sanctuary– “Heaven on earth to farm animals that have nowhere else to turn”, very vegan focused (a good thing) and a place for learning and healing… events and tours only, no drop-in visits…
  • Lakshmi Cow Sanctuary– It’s a small farm focused on animal well-fare, so prepared to get muddy and have some fun feeding cows…
  • Skylands Sanctuary & Animal Rescue– A safe haven for rescue farm animals… schedule a visit or volunteer and learn a lot doing it… plus meet Freddy the pig who escaped a slaughterhouse…
  • Avian Wildlife Center– Their mission is to rescue birds of all kinds, check their facebook page for events…
  • Popcorn Park Animal Refuge– A rescue center that has a small zoo attached to it where you can feed animals some popcorn and peanuts…

UPSTATE NY

  • Catskill Animal Sanctuary– A farmed animal sanctuary with public and private tours and even a chance to stay at the farmhouse for a night…
  • Woodstock Farm Sanctuary– Rescued farm animal tours including meet and greet with the residents and lots of info where food comes from..
  • Faraway Farm Alpacas– All about alpacas in a beautiful place… contact them for tours…
  • Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary– Schedule a one group only tour with some rescued farm animals and learn about the food industry…
  • Tevaland Sanctuary Farm– Help heal rescued or abused animals by booking a party/tour and being part of and learning about their rehabilitation process…
  • Arthur’s Aces Animal Sanctuary– Offers public and private tours on a farm with rescue pigs and education regarding the food system… residents are cute…
  • And-Hof Animals– Heart of gold owners savings abused and neglected rescued farm animals in a perma-culture focused environment… so call them for a tour…
  • Broome Animal Sanctuary– A small animal sanctuary offering tours of rescued animals…

PENNSYLVANIA

  • Wolf Sanctuary of PA– fasmily owned, offers guided tours and a full moon night event too…
  • Pocono Snake & Animal Farm– Great little zoo to get hands on with feeding the animals and not only snakes

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