Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo
| Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo | |
|---|---|
Alligator farm circa 1902 | |
| 34°30′54″N 93°04′24″W / 34.51500°N 93.07333°W | |
| Date opened | 1902 |
| Location | Hot Springs, Arkansas, United States |
| No. of animals | <400 |
| No. of species | <20 |
| Public transit access | Intracity Transit |
| Website | www |
The Arkansas Alligator Farm and Petting Zoo is a privately owned zoo located on Whittington Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
The farm houses but does not raise alligators and has done so since it was founded in 1902. The farm includes a small museum with a collection of mounted alligators, a souvenir shop but there’s no snack bar. It includes the mummified carcass purporting to be a "Merman", similar to ones held in Ripley's Believe It or Not! museums.
The main alligator pit contains a small headstone, a memorial to somebody's fox terrier that was killed by alligators on that spot in 1906.