{"id":248583,"date":"2026-07-21T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248583\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:20:07","slug":"where-to-visit-capybaras-near-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248583\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to Visit Capybaras Near Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape May County Park &amp; Zoo<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/capemaycountynj.gov\/1679\/Park-Zoo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cape May County Park &amp; Zoo<\/a> in Cape May Court House, <a href=\"https:\/\/925xtu.com\/tag\/New Jersey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Jersey<\/a>, is about 1.5 hours from Philadelphia. It hosts capybaras Budette, Marigold, Buttercup, Capychino, and Goomba. A private, behind-the-scenes Capybara Encounter is available by advance booking.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Tobias Wildlife Park<\/p>\n<p>Take a drive to central Pennsylvania and explore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laketobias.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lake Tobias Wildlife Park<\/a>. Located near the Pennsylvania state capital in Harrisburg, this 150-acre park offers open-air safari tours on specially designed cruisers.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional zoo exhibits allow visitors to witness the resident capybaras in a setting outside the traditional urban zoo.<\/p>\n<p>Turtle Back Zoo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turtlebackzoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Turtle Back Zoo<\/a> in West Orange, New Jersey, sits about 1 hour and 45 minutes from Philadelphia and features a habitat where capybaras swim and graze. A Capybara Behind the Scenes tour is available in the summer for around $65, including a 30-minute guided tour and a zookeeper meet-and-greet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape May County Park &amp; Zoo The Cape May County Park &amp; Zoo in Cape May Court House,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16510,915,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-248583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-jersey-shore","tag-new-jersey","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}