Term Time Opening Hours
Mon-Tue CLOSED | Wed-Fri 9.30am-4.00pm | Sat-Sun 9.30am-5.00pm
School Holiday Hours (Sat 12th April – Sun 27th April)
Open 7 Days Mon-Sun 9.30am-5.00pm
Welcome… More than a zoo, there’s a surprise around every corner. Get up close with fabulous animals and entertaining attractions. Enter mythical lands where unicorns and dragons come alive. Travel back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Immerse yourself in our tropical butterfly house and feel the brush of fluttering butterflies. Let your eyes adjust and see magnificent Kiwi roaming in Kiwi Forest.
Connect with cute animals in Buttermilk Farm. See cheeky monkeys, meerkats, and otters. Take a ride on the train, play in our free playground, then enjoy refreshments in our café. We also offer kids parties, functions, and meetings, plus fun educational school and ECE visits. Explore the wonderland of Butterfly Creek and experience a day you’ll never forget.
What’s on
Come along to Buttermilk Farm these holidays and see our hatching chicks and learn about the egg life cycle. Meet our newly hatched chicks, and if you are lucky you may even get to see one of the eggs hatch!
Join our Junior Keeper program and kids can spend the day with our keepers and animals where they will learn what it is like to be a zookeeper and get up-close with some of our cutest creatures including our otters, lizards, farm animals and more!
Gather the family and come to Butterfly Creek for an action-packed summer holiday. With animals, dinosaurs, entertainment, face painting and loads more, there’s fun for everyone!
Travel back to a time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Dinosaur Kingdom at Butterfly Creek is a prehistoric themed attraction featuring more than 50 dinosaurs, including huge, life size animatronics dinosaurs.
As you walk among the enormous herbivores and the fierce carnivores, you will meet a Triceratops mother about to protect her young from a T-Rex, beware the vicious Velociraptor and look up to the massive 24m Diplodocus.