{"id":586968,"date":"2026-04-16T03:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T03:12:10","slug":"maine-wildlife-park-in-gray-welcomes-visitors-as-it-opens-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/586968\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Wildlife Park in Gray welcomes visitors as it opens for season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAY, Maine (WGME) &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maine.gov\/ifw\/wildlife-park\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maine Wildlife Park <\/a>in Gray is opening for the season on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The park is operated by the state and is home to more than 30 native Maine wildlife species that can no longer live in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say some of the animals live at the park because they were injured or orphaned, and others because they are human dependent \u2013 raised, sometimes illegally, in captivity.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A moose{ }at Maine Wildlife Park (Ben Barrett, Maine Wildlife Park)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1f1e5e1b-4723-41ff-9293-05cbb674fdae-484587234_1024132136416829_5906999214133927703_n.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A moose{ }at Maine Wildlife Park (Ben Barrett, Maine Wildlife Park)<\/p>\n<p>You can also explore the park&#8217;s gardens, nature trails, picnic areas, a museum, visitor center and more.<\/p>\n<p>Season and day passes are available for purchase online.<\/p>\n<p>The park is open seven days a week from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., but visitors can explore the park until 6 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAY, Maine (WGME) &#8212; The Maine Wildlife Park in Gray is opening for the season on Wednesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-586968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}