There’s a giraffe in Battle Creek, Michigan, who has better people skills than most humans you’ve met, and you can shake hands with it, or close enough, at Binder Park Zoo.
This place is not what you expect when someone says “zoo in Michigan.”
Most zoos give you a few hours of entertainment and a sore back. Binder Park Zoo gives you 433 acres of pure, unfiltered wonder and a story you’ll be telling at dinner parties for the next decade.
Let’s start with the basics. Battle Creek is a city that most people associate with cereal. That’s the reputation. But tucked into this southwest Michigan city is one of the most expansive and genuinely thrilling zoo experiences in the entire Midwest, and it deserves a lot more attention than it gets…