Lincoln Park Zoo celebrates last weekend of Fall Fest

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Saturday, October 17, 2015
Lincoln Park Zoo celebrates last weekend of Fall Fest
The Lincoln Park Zoo is celebrating the season with its first-ever Fall Fest.

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.

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/

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