Useful information for your visit
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.
Domestic Pets
Please note that domestic pets, including dogs, cats and birds, are not permitted in the botanic gardens or Rockhampton Zoo.
Registered service animals are permitted, but we ask that they do not stop at the chimpanzee enclosure, dingo enclosure, or enter into the kangaroo paddock due to the distress and safety risks this can cause to these animals. Please have identification cards available and ensure the dog is wearing an identifying harness or coat.
Rockhampton Regional Council provides a number of dog off leash areas. To find out more visit the council website page.
Our address
100 Spencer Street, The Range, Queensland 4700
Getting here
We are located right next to the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens so this means you can visit us both! Walk, skip, bike, scoot or drive yourself here.
Free parking is available for buses, caravans, cars and motorcycles and free bicycle racks are located just outside the main entrance (unfortunately you cannot take your bicycle, rollerblades, skateboard or other forms of personal transport into the Zoo).
By Car:
- From the South and West: From the Rockhampton Roundabout with the Big Brahman Bull Statue, follow the Bruce Highway turning left at the traffic lights onto Upper Dawson Road. Turn left at Spencer Street which takes you straight to the Botanic Gardens entrance.
- From the North: Follow the Bruce Highway heading South, over the Fitzroy Bridge and onto Fitzroy Street, turn left onto Canning Street, then right onto Upper Dawson Road. Turn left at Spencer Street which takes you straight to the Botanic Gardens entrance.
By Bus:
You can also visit us by jumping on a public bus. Take the 404 bus to get to the entrance of the Botanic Gardens in Spencer Street. Visit the Queensland Government Bus Services website for timetables.
By Taxi:
- Black & White Cabs - phone: 13 32 22
- Rockhampton Yellow Cabs: 13 19 24
- 13 Cabs: 0416 615 713
Explore Rockhampton
While in Rockhampton be charmed by our historical architecture, marvel our majestic cathedrals, be one with nature and find out why we are the Beef Capital of Australia. Plan your visit to our great region by jumping onto our Explore Rockhampton website or stopping in at our Tropic of Capricorn Spire Visitor Information Centre on Gladstone Road.