May Highlights at Roger Williams Park Zoo!

MAY 2017 HIGHLIGHTS at Roger Williams Park Zoo & Carousel Village

Food Truck Friday Opening Night at the Carousel Village
Friday, May 5 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM
Come experience the fun and entertainment of the Roger Williams Park Carousel Village and enjoy some of the best local food trucks around! Ride the Carousel, explore Habro’s Boundless Playground, listen to live entertainment and more. Invite your family and friends and leave the cooking to us.

Rock-A-Baby Concert
Saturday, May 13 | 10:30 – 11:15 AM
This exciting 45-minute concert specifically geared towards our youngest Zoo guests promises to be fun for the whole family! Shake, dance and sing along as we explore fun musical concepts, play games, and boogie down. Pre-registration is required.

Wild Art
Saturday, May 13 | 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Artist and educator Eric Fulford returns to Wild Art! Each class will include a visit to the focus animal, where students will observe the animals’ unique adaptations and form before returning to the classroom to create their works of art.

Scout Safari Night
Saturday, May 20 | 5:30 – 8:30 PM
Enjoy tours of the Veterinary Hospital, music and dancing, make enrichment for the animals, become a mad scientist, and much more, all while completing a variety of badge requirements.

Roger Williams Park Zoo, one of the oldest in the nation, is Rhode Island’s number one outdoor family and tourist attraction, and a leader in conservation efforts undertaken by a zoo of its size. The Zoo has received numerous awards for environmental education, and conservation work done locally and around the world, caring for species that without human intervention would face certain extinction. Roger Williams Park Zoo is supported and managed by the Rhode Island Zoological Society, and is owned by the City of Providence.