Busch Gardens Tampa, Theme park in Tampa, United States
Busch Gardens Tampa is a theme and animal park in Florida that combines roller coasters and animal enclosures across more than 335 acres. Over 300 species live here in different zones that evoke African landscapes.
The site began in 1959 as a beer company garden by Anheuser-Busch and evolved into a major leisure park. Over the decades, roller coasters and further attractions arrived while animal keeping was expanded.
The park's themed areas carry African names: Morocco at the entrance, Nairobi, Congo and Stanleyville, with the Serengeti Railway steam-train replica stopping in three of them. Gwazi, a wooden coaster, was named after a mythical creature with a tiger's head and a lion's body, and its two tracks were called Lion and Tiger, crossing paths seven times. Walkabout Way, opened in June 2010, lets visitors aged five and up feed kangaroos.
Admission can be combined with multi-park tickets, and waiting lines shorten with pre-booked fast access. The site sits north of downtown Tampa and offers its own parking near the entrances.
The park's name comes from the brewery, not a garden: Anheuser-Busch opened it in 1959 beside its Tampa plant, and the original 15-acre Bird Gardens section still exists. The Serengeti Railway, a steam-train replica, circles the park with stops in Nairobi, Congo and Stanleyville.
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