San Diego Wild Animal Park, Safari park and zoo in San Diego, United States

San Diego Wild Animal Park is a zoo and safari park in California, United States, located in the San Pasqual Valley. The main area consists of open grassland enclosures surrounded by walking trails, viewing platforms, and feeding stations spread across several hundred acres.

The Zoological Society began planning a larger facility in 1964, choosing a natural-environment zoo over a conservation farm or game preserve. The park opened on May 10, 1972 as the San Diego Wild Animal Park, with a layout by Charles Faust. It was renamed the San Diego Zoo Safari Park on June 30, 2010 to make its free-ranging enclosures clearer to visitors.

Visitors today watch animals move freely across recreated habitats while traveling on foot or in open safari trucks through the grounds. The experience resembles an East African landscape with herds of ungulates and predators roaming within large enclosures.

Access is via Interstate 15 with designated parking for different vehicle sizes around 30 miles (50 km) northeast of downtown. Arriving early offers more shade and more active animal behavior during cooler morning hours.

The grounds house a veterinary hospital with its own surgery room for large animals and a specialized nursery for newborns. The other half of the land remains undeveloped to protect native California plants and wildlife that roam freely.