CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Lincoln Park Zoo is celebrating the season with its first-ever Fall Fest.
The family celebration has rides, activities, and entertainment for everyone to enjoy, including the zoo's animal guests.
The festival features a corn maze, a hay mountain, a 60-foot burlap sack slide on the zoo's Main Mall and hay wagon rides throughout Farm-in-the-Zoo. The festival also includes a pumpkin carver, Ferris wheel, inflatable courses and rides, educational activities and live entertainment.
The zoo is free for families to attend; hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. In full fall spirit, pumpkins will be available for sale at the pumpkin patch daily throughout October. Pumpkins vary in price depending on size.
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ABC7 spoke with Senior Director of Operations at the Lincoln Park Zoo Kurt Zitzner live during the last weekend of fall fest.
Lincoln Park Zoo Fall Fest
October 16-18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
2001 N. Clark Street, Chicago, Ill.
Admission: FREE admission, ride tickets available for $3 or in packages.
Visit www.lpzoo.org, http://www.lpzoo.org for more information or come out for the last weekend of Fall Fest.
LINKS:
http://www.lpzoo.org/events/calendar/fall-fest
http://www.lpzoo.org/