Jill Mott

Review of Lazy Ranch

We went on a rainy summer Friday and had a wonderf...

We went on a rainy summer Friday and had a wonderful time! I went with my four children ages 9, 7, 5 and 2. We drove an hour to get there and left early so as to arrive right when it opened (at 9am). We were the first ones there and had a lot of fun feeding the animals. They only take cash so be sure you bring enough. This is a great place to visit during the pandemic since you can stay in your car the entire time.

We bought 4 buckets of animal food (1 per child) and it was the perfect amount. It was a little intimidating at first since the animals come right up to your windows to be fed. I kept my windows up for the first 5 minutes after having them all the way down and seeing that the animals would try to stick their whole heads into our car. We found a good balance with opening our windows halfway and then putting animal food in our hands and letting the animals eat from our hands (they will take the entire bucket from you if you hold up the bucket). After a few successful attempts and a little further into the outdoor zoo, we were able to roll our windows all the way down and we had a lot of fun feeding the animals! Even my 2 year old was comfortable feeding the animals from his hand by the end! We fed deer, ostriches, emu, llama, pigs and even a few cattle. They were all very gentle and not aggressive at all.

It was not crowded and a great adventure even in the rain! We will definitely visit again and check out the playground and ice cream place once the covid quarantine time has passed!