Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park
Attractions
Fun Facts
At Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, to keep 1,000 animals happy takes about 3 tons of food a day… that's a 4.5 year supply for the average person.
Attractions at Disney's Animal Kingdom® Park
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Rafiki's Planet Watch|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Enjoy a hands-on encounter with a variety of friendly, domesticated animals, including goats, sheep, llamas, chickens and other sweet critters. Touch and feed your furry new pals in this shaded petting zoo that offers activities covering animal issues.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Rafiki's Planet Watch|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Indoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Meet knowledgeable animal handlers, see animals up close and learn about the veterinary care, research and food preparation that are part of the daily activities in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park as you develop awareness for animal conservation.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Follow a lush, shady footpath full of living plants and animals that have survived since prehistoric times. See a giant Pachycephalosaurus dinosaur that lived 65 million years ago and become a paleontologist who discovers fascinating fossil dig sites.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Fun for Everyone, Indoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Pose for photos with an amazing 13-foot tall, 40-foot long skeleton reproduction of the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex ever discovered. Dino-Sue is a replica of a 67 million-year-old dinosaur found in Black Hills, South Dakota in 1990.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Thrill Rides, Indoor|Age Range: Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults
Settle into your CTX Time Rover for a race against time. The mission: Go back 65 million years to capture a mild-mannered dinosaur without getting caught in the jaws of the angry, carnivorous and hungry Carnotaurus. Then you have just 60 seconds to escape!
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Discovery Island|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Wander down peaceful jungle paths, over wooden foot bridges and through cave-like tunnels to observe and photograph a rich variety of exotic wildlife, including lemurs, kangaroos and Galapagos tortoises.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Asia|Type: Thrill Rides, Outdoor|Age Range: Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults
Board this high-altitude, high-speed roller coaster train and hold on tight through daring drops, hairpin turns and a close encounter with the inhospitable inhabitant of the Forbidden Mountain: the infamous Yeti.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, All Ages
Flaunt your skills on carnival-style, dinosaur-themed games that are fun for all ages. Win prizes at Bronto-Score basketball, Comet Crasher goblet toss, Dino-Whamma mallet strength game, Fossil Fueler water squirt and Mammoth Marathon racing derby.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Rafiki's Planet Watch|Type: Fun for Everyone, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Amble along this informative adventure trail and enjoy the antics of one of the most endangered primates in the world: the tiny cotton-top tamarins. Named for their flowing hair, these South American monkeys are utterly entertaining!
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Discovery Island|Type: Fun for Everyone, Mild but Wild Rides, Indoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Put on a pair of Bug-Eye glasses and immerse yourself in a spellbinding 8-minute, 3D movie and multimedia show hosted by the ant Flik from Disney·Pixar's A Bug's Life. Become an honorary bug in this theatrical adventure screened inside the Tree of Life.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Asia|Type: Water Rides, Mild but Wild Rides, Outdoor|Age Range: Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults
Ride a sprawling raft on the churning Chakranadi River through an Asian rainforest. First, ascend 90 feet past picturesque, lush jungle and jasmine-scented mists, then drop into gushing geysers and drift under refreshing waterfalls.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids
The 6 intriguing clubs found throughout the theme park let kids explore nature's wonders through such hands-on experiences as constructing dinosaur bones, going on a scavenger hunt and becoming a wildlife detective. And kids collect stamps along the way!
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Africa|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Witness the exotic animals of Africa up close as they traverse the savannah as you ride in a rugged open-sided safari vehicle. No two safaris are the same as giraffes, lions, antelope, rhinos, warthogs, zebras and other stunning species roam the land.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Asia|Type: Fun for Everyone, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Venture into the wilds of the mystical Anandapur Royal Forest of Southeast Asia, a land where you'll encounter majestic tigers, a Komodo dragon, a Malayan tapir, wild bats, deer and over 50 species of exotic birds amid ancient ruins and murals.
Pangani Forest Exploration Trail®
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Africa|Type: Fun for Everyone, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Take a peaceful, self-guided tour through a lush, tropical "place of enchantment" and see such exotic wildlife as gorillas, hippos, okapi, naked mole rats, meerkats and many species of exotic birds. These magnificent creatures will leave you in awe.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Mild but Wild Rides, Outdoor|Age Range: Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults
Travel in your own time machine back to when meteors wiped out the dinosaurs! Cars rotate as they speed along the track through hairpin turns and tight curves on this carnival-style, spinning roller coaster. Can you handle the time warp?
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens
Small kids become paleontologists on this sandy, dinosaur playground where they can excavate fossils, climb through tunnels, play a tune on the "xylobone," wind their ways through a giant, multilevel maze with slides and much more.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Oasis|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Watch for the Parma wallaby, tree kangaroo, giant anteater, sloth, Chinese deer and exotic birds on lush, tropical garden pathways just inside Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park! Shady trails, meandering streams and waterfalls transplant you to Africa.
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Discovery Island|Type: Fun for Everyone, Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Adults, All Ages
This 14-story, 50-foot-wide tree is the centerpiece and icon of Disney's Animal Kingdom Park. Stroll the Discovery Trails around the tree and observe lemurs, rhinos, tigers and hundreds of other animals carved into it. And don't miss the show inside!
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Dinoland U.S.A.|Type: Fun For Little Ones, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, All Ages
Who knew dinosaurs could fly? Younger kids take a leisurely flight aboard a friendly three-horned dinosaur that they make go up and down as it coasts in a circle past cartoon comets and other dinosaurs. It's high-flying fun!
Location: Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park, Rafiki's Planet Watch|Type: Fun for Everyone, Outdoor|Age Range: Pre-Schoolers, Kids, Pre-Teens & Teens, Adults, All Ages
Board a rustic African train that runs 1.2 miles between the Harambe, Africa and Rafiki's Planet Watch areas. See animal housing and care areas for rhinos, elephants and other species on your journey across the savannah.
