We’re excited to announce Wooten’s Animal Sanctuary is undergoing its biggest remodeling to date! We’ll be spending more than a quarter of a million dollars over the next few months to improve the public areas and all animal habitats throughout the Sanctuary. The project will be managed by Juan Lara, a designer with 38 years of experience building chickee huts …
Updated November 28, 2022 Wooten’s is currently open and operating airboat and swamp buggy tours from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Our Alligator Show and Animal Sanctuary are open with the last alligator show starting at 4 p.m. Please see below for updates related to Hurricane Ian. We strongly encourage guests to follow local guidelines and updates. We thank you …
OCHOPEE, Fla.—A Wooten’s Everglades Airboat Tours employee received injuries to his hands and arms today while feeding tigers in the company’s animal sanctuary. He was transported to a nearby hospital for treatment. The tigers were not injured and remain in their enclosure. Wooten’s is licensed to care for tigers by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the US …
Wooten’s Everglades Airboat Tours is offering two new kinds of airboat tours. The new tours use smaller boats, seat fewer passengers, last longer, and visit more areas, giving guests more ways to explore Everglades flora and fauna with their friends and family. The new Extended Small Airboat Tour takes guests through narrower mangrove forests that larger airboats can’t reach, but …
Wooten’s employees caught an 11-foot Burmese python at Wooten’s. This is the latest in a series of pythons the Wooten’s team has captured in the Everglades.