Just one of the beautiful tigers at the National Tiger Sanctuary.
From ziplines, go-karts, and roller coasters to museum attractions featuring everything from giant dinosaurs to the Titanic; from classic cars and celebrity wax figures to Silver Dollar City, an international award winning 1880’s styled theme park, Branson has an amazing choice of attractions for all ages and interests. Nowhere is that more obvious than in the variety of the unique animal attractions it offers.
Branson’s Promised Land Zoo is an exciting zoo adventure like no other! It’s an up-close-and-personal experience not soon forgotten. Animals from cute and cuddly to grand and majestic, or scaly and slithering, you’ll find big cats, monkeys, kangaroos, camels, zebras, reptiles, and birds as well as unique, rare, and endangered species from a variety of locations around the world just waiting to be discovered by you and your family in this intimate zoo setting.
Want to get closer to exotic and fascinating wildlife than you’ll ever experience at a traditional zoo or aquarium? Then Branson’s Wild World, combining the adventure of both a zoo and aquarium into one unique attraction, is the place for you! This amazing animal attraction includes features such as Touch Tanks where you can actually touch sea animals; a hands-on Reptile Display that lets you interact with several different animals, like bearded dragons, snakes, lizards, and more; and Wings of the World, an aviary with exotic birds like macaws, cockatoos, and parrots! There’s also an interactive aquarium filled with fascinating sea creatures like eels and sharks. It’s one of only two facilities in the country to have bull sharks on display, the most feared by man in the shark world, and you won’t just see them; you can feed them!
These Orange Tip and White Kite butterflies are just two of the hundreds that will be fluttering around you in the Butterfly Palace & Rainforest Adventure.
How about an adventure that’s a little more delicate? The Butterfly Palace & Rainforest Adventure provides a unique tropical experience inside a beautiful palace in the middle of Branson. This interactive, educational, unique, and extremely entertaining family adventure includes the Living Rainforest Science Center, Emerald Forest Mirror Maze, and the Banyan Tree Bungee Adventure. It’s highlighted by a spectacular Butterfly Aviary featuring hundreds of beautiful, living, and flittering exotic butterflies in an unforgettable kaleidoscope of color and beauty.
You’ll be awed by the size, strength, beauty, and agility of the big cats at the National Tiger Sanctuary. It houses an African Lion, a Black Leopard, a Bengal Tiger, and several Bengal/Siberian Tigers, as well as several mixed-species animals adapting to their return to nature after enduring an inhumane, caged existence. You’ll also be amused at their playful antics, and deeply touched by the stories of how they came to live in this magnificent haven in the Ozarks. It’s Southwest Missouri’s only facility that’s expansive enough to shelter large, exotic animals in a habitat as close as possible to that of their home in the wild while, at the same time, providing an opportunity to view these magnificent creatures up close and personal.
The beautiful waters of Branson’s Lake Taneycomo teem with brown and rainbow trout, making it one of the best trout fisheries in the nation. The lake’s trout are raised at the Shepherd of the Hills Fish Hatchery, located just below the Table Rock Dam. Operated by the Missouri Department of Conservation, the hatchery features an entertaining and educational visitor center that includes a nature display, a short video on the hatchery and the process used to produce the trout, a giant aquarium with huge trout, and displays of wildflowers and plants indigenous to the area. It also offers tours of the hatchery, providing an up close and personal look not only at the hatchery operation, but the raceways, containing tens of thousands of trout it is raising. Their size ranges from very small to the large rainbow and brown Trout used for breeding.
For more information on these and other Branson Attractions please feel free to contact the Branson Tourism Center, one of Branson’s largest and most respected vacation planning services by calling 1-800-785-1550 or by visiting its website www.BransonTourismCenter.com.