Submitted by Northwest Trek Wildlife Park
Seniors aged 65 and older receive special half-price general admission at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park throughout the month of September.
They also receive 10 percent discounts in the Forest Café and gift shop and on Zip Wild zip line/challenge courses.
It’s a great time for seniors to get out and enjoy the scenery, the smaller crowds and the relaxed pace of the season.
And Northwest Trek is always a special place for grandparents who want to pack up the grandkids and share the wonders of nature with them.
Kids particularly enjoy up-close animal sightings at Trailside Encounters and hands-on activities in the Cheney Family Discovery Center.
Admission also includes a 50-minute, naturalist-narrated ride aboard a tram as it winds its way through Northwest Trek’s 435-acre Free-Roaming Area, where animals exhibit herding behaviors that only occur during the fall season. You might catch a glimpse of the moose calf born July 17 during Northwest Trek’s 40th birthday weekend. There are also bison calves, bighorn sheep lambs, fawns, a caribou calf, and other babies to see.
And with the changing season, it’s a lovely time of year for leisurely strolls along paved pathways, which wind past exhibits of black bears and grizzly bears, gray wolves, cougars, bobcats, Canada lynx, river otters, beavers and dozens of other animals.
Longer walks are available on paved nature trails. And there are benches scattered around for just sitting a spell amid the grandeur of the great outdoors.
Northwest Trek is open daily at 9:30 a.m. Starting September 8, the park closes at 4:00 pm Monday through Friday and closes at 5:00 p.m. on the weekend (Saturday and Sunday).
The Zip Wild zip line and challenge courses are open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. through September 7. From September 12 to 27, they are open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on weekends only (Saturday and Sunday).
Reservations are required for Zip Wild and can be made at www.nwtrek.org/zipwild/.
For more information, visit www.nwtrek.org or call 360-832-6117.
