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Animal Adventure Presents: The Preserve

The Preserve - Drive Thru Experience
3 Miles of Roadway, 100 Acres, 100s of Animals
Now Closed
Reopening April 2025

Experience The Preserve

The Preserve is an interactive, educational drive thru adventure, hosted on over 100 acres in beautiful upstate New York. Sister facility to Animal Adventure Park, owner Jordan Patch has opened the gates to his once private preserve, to share a new adventure with you! Home to 100s of animals, your self-driven adventure will take you through grassland, scrub brush, and deep forests as you explore and experience geographically designated paddocks: Aussie Eurasia, The Americas, Africa & Giants of Africa.

Our interactive experience will allow guests to offer our fortified diets to the animals that call the preserve home. Being a "free choice" space, the animal inhabitants can choose if they wish to engage guests in their vehicles. You are joining them, in their environment! We guarantee no two visits are ever the same!

Bring your camera for breathtaking views and amazing animal encounters!

Mission: Education

"With understanding and appreciation, education and conservation are achieved!"

The Preserve carries on parent organization, Animal Adventure's, mission to create up-close and hands-on animal encounters. Appreciation yields opportunity for education: responsible captive management & propagation, conservation of species, preservation of spaces.

WE CARE!

We are federally licensed by the USDA; ensuring that our animals, their care, and facilities meet the same standards of all USDA licensed zoos and aquariums in the US. We are also licensed by NYS Department of Environmental Conservation and NYS Agriculture & Markets.

Many of our animal ambassadors are from rescue situations & surrenders! Ask our staff, we would love to share their story with you!

SPECIES SURVIVAL PLAN

We are proud to be a part of the Species Survival Plan!

Overseen by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the focus of the SSP is to maintain a healthy and self-sustaining captive population that is both genetically diverse and demographically stable.

The species belonging to the SSP are selected based on the belief of captive breeding programs being their only chance for survival. We are honored to be a part of the solution.

ZAA

Animal Adventure is an accredited zoological facility, earning accreditation after a rigorous application and site inspection process in December of 2021.

The Zoological Association of America (ZAA) is a non-profit, membership-based, accrediting organization dedicated to responsible wildlife management, conservation, and education.

The ZAA upholds the highest level of professional standards in animal welfare, safety, and ethics.

ANIMAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS

Animal Adventure Park & Preserve proudly participate in Animal Management Programs (AMP) coordinated by the ZAA. "To ensure a species’ long-term survival, managed propagation of wildlife has become an essential part of the conversation and the only insulation against a potential collapse of wild populations."