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Busch Gardens’ new Wild Oasis realm opens this spring

The immersive experience features treetop climbin’, giant anteaters, squirrel monkeys, and a massive splash area.

An orange crane works on the construction of Busch Gardens' wild Oasis realm while workers and staff in hard hats walk around.

Park leaders expect the project to be finished this spring.

Photo by TBAYtoday

Busch Gardens is taking you to a whole new realm this year: a “Wild Oasis.”

The park’s latest experience opens this spring, said Erick Elliott, the park’s vice president of design and engineering. The long-awaited realm will be “North America’s most immersive kid-friendly adventure realm,” Elliot added.

The rendering of the Busch Gardens' new realm: Wild Oasis, a leafy, jungle-inspired area with a drop tower, fake mountain, and mist.

We’re already dreaming of that drop.

Rendering via Busch Gardens

    What can we expect?

    • The exhibit will feature multi-species animal habitats with capybaras, giant anteaters, squirrel monkeys, and a variety of tropical birds.
    • Visitors will be able to take a peek at the creatures from underwater, ground level, and aerial perches.
    • Hop on the new drop tower ride — if you’re 38 inches or taller.
    A wooden tower currently under construction in the trees at Busch Gardens.

    We got a bird’s eye peek at the progress.

    Photo by TBAYtoday

    • The realm also boasts 200 ft of climbing adventures.
    • Pack the swimsuit so the kiddos can cool off in the fountains, geysers, waterfalls, and jets of the Enchanted Falls — a water play and splash pad area.
    • Make sure to spend some time at the Canopy climb, a four-story climbing structure, with crawl tunnels, a vertical climbing maze, and suspended swinging bridge.
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