Schools and Groups

Before your visit

Please email Rockhampton Zoo to confirm your visit. Our team will be able to let you know any updates or changes to our visitation policy.

Rockhampton Zoo is unable to provide private tours or talks for schools and groups. However, if you do wish to have a guided tour customised to your group, there is a company called TIME SAFARIS Rockhampton who do offer this service.

Rockhampton Zoo has a range of online Keeper Talks on our website. To view these talks, please click here.

Getting here

Rockhampton Zoo is located at 100 Spencer Street, The Range, Rockhampton, Queensland 4700.

Free parking is available for all vehicles. Bus parking is a short walk along a footpath to the zoo main entrance.

Ticket price

Entry to Rockhampton Zoo is FREE.

Rockhampton Zoo is owned and operated by Rockhampton Regional Council.

Opening hours

Daily opening hours: 9:00am to 4:15pm.

Rockhampton Zoo is open seven days a week (including all public holidays apart from Anzac Day and Christmas Day*).

*Anzac Day: 1:30pm to 4:15pm. Christmas Day: Closed.

During your visit

Rockhampton Zoo runs daily Keeper Talks, where you can meet our keepers in person and learn all about our animals. You may also get to see our keepers offering food or enrichment items to our animals. There is opportunity to ask a couple of questions at the end of each talk.

Keeper Talk times can be found here.

Rockhampton Zoo also has an online self-guided tour, which guests can access using their phones during their visit.

The online self-guided tour can be found here. It includes individual animal profiles and fun facts about them. The QR code link is also located within the zoo.

Amenities and rest options

There is a toilet block with accessible toilet and baby change table at Rockhampton Zoo's main entrance.

There are four large picnic tables with umbrellas located on the grassy area just inside the Rockhampton Zoo main entrance. Have a snack while watching our beautiful macaws in their aviary.

There are benches located throughout Rockhampton Zoo for you to take your time, relax and enjoy watching the animals.

There are also picnic tables, a playground and public BBQs located within the Botanic Gardens, a short walk from Rockhampton Zoo.

The Gardens Tearooms is a cafe that offers delicious food, drink and seating areas in the botanic gardens.