This year’s Fall Fest features ticketed attractions throughout the zoo, including a Fun Slide, Ferris wheel, inflatable activities, and much more. While you stroll through the decorated gardens bursting with fall color, you’ll enjoy free musical entertainment, professional pumpkin carvers, a pumpkin patch, and fall-themed enrichment for the animals. Every weekend will offer something new!

Rides and Attractions:

Rides
This year’s festival features ticketed attractions throughout the zoo, including a Fun Slide, the Fall Game Zone, inflatable attractions such as a bounce house, and much more.

Fall Popups
Enjoy fall classics such as picking out pumpkins, roasting s’mores, fall themed food, and more!

- Pumpkin Patch
- Performers
- Photo Ops
- Live Pumpkin Carving
- Penguin Encounters
- Rock Climbing at Farm in the Zoo

Animal Enrichment and Learning Chats:

10:30 a.m. Lions

3 p.m. Lynx

Schedule of Events:

LEAP: Learn, Explore, and Play Classes

Join us for a morning of investigating and exploring the natural world through play. Children guide the way as they choose whether to dig, paint, drum, or pretend alongside a wondrous world of animals!

10:30 a.m: Story Time with Chicago Public Library

Listen in and relax at Story Time! Enjoy readings on a variety of topics from the Chicago Public Library.

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