Pueblo Zoo Camp

Pueblo Zoo Camp includes hands-on animal encounters and learning experiences, outdoor exploration, and nature-based activities. Campers explore the zoo, discover animals from around the world and local wildlife, learn outdoor and conservation skills, and take part in creative projects, games, and teamwork. Activities include learning outdoor skills, investigating Colorado wildlife, meeting exotic animals from around the globe, writing animal-centered stories, keeping a journal with illustrations, poetry, and story ideas, viewing art throughout the zoo, drawing animals, and watching animals create art during an enrichment session. Campers also participate in the Pueblo Zoo Camp Art Show, science activities about animal senses, meeting reptiles and amphibians at the zoo, games and simulations about apex predators, behind-the-scenes exploration of a zookeeper’s day, and investigating rare animals such as the Bali Myna and axolotl. Additional activities include making butter, spinning yarn with a drop spindle, sprouting seeds, meeting vermiculture worms, feeding contact yard animals, gardening, and options to purchase a Safari Café lunch package and participate in Pizza Friday.

• Ages: 6–13 years old
• Schedule: Camp days run 9:00am–4:00pm
• Price: Per week: $250 non-members, $240 members. Camp lunch can be purchased for $40.00 for the whole week. Pizza Fridays add on $5; Pizza Friday is included in the $40 lunch fee if the weekly lunch package is purchased.

Pueblo Zoo Summer Camp’s stated mission is to blend conservation education, animal encounters, and active outdoor fun. The camp fee includes exclusive Pueblo Zoo Summer Camp merchandise, specifically a t-shirt and drawstring bag. Camp scholarships are available in limited numbers. Camp lunch packages and Pizza Friday add-ons must be purchased at registration or by the Friday before camp week, and counselors cannot take money from families or campers for lunch or merchandise purchases. Families are instructed not to sign up a child for more than one grade level, and campers must be six years old by the first day of camp. The program includes behind-the-scenes exploration of zookeeper work and conservation programs such as the Save Animals From Extinction (S.A.F.E.) program.

Last updated February 25, 2026.