The animal park is located right before you get to the Chickasaw National Recreation Area.

No zoo we could ever build will have the positive impact of taking out the nation’s largest tiger cub traffickers.Thank you all for your continued support. The move comes after five tigers tested positive for COVID-19 in New York, raising concerns among experts that repeated handling by visitors puts cubs at heightened risk of contracting the virus.After a month’s hiatus, tiger cub petting at Joe Exotic’s former zoo is back—exposing cubs to not only the stress of hours of handling by humans, but also to the risk of contracting the coronavirus.Oklahoma’s Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, which was closed for about a month because of the state’s pandemic restrictions, was featured in the hit Netflix series “It was packed. Learn more here.animals are, now that the horrible abuser rots in Federal Prison. It has exhausted the small fortune I once held, I even sold my Ferrari to help build our animals larger enclosures.

Of course, you can also find this out The animal park, located on 16 acres, is home to more than 50 species of animals. In fact, a sign on the side says “Now Open.”Here’s how the zoo looks from the other angle, according to Google Maps’ Street View.A sign on the fence reads: “Welcome to America’s Largest Big Cat Sanctuary.” Another sign next to it reads: “Now Open.” So yes, the park is open! GW Zoo Today: Where Is the Greater Wynnewood Animal Park? The park is in Wynnewood and not far from the city of Joy, off 35 just past 29, but before you get to 7.Zooming into the map, you can see that it’s very close to the Crossroads RV Park and the Arbuckle Pentecostal Church, across the highway from Elite Motor Sports. When Joe Exotic was convicted, Jeff and Lauren Lowe took over the park, On March 11 they posted: “Coming March 20, 2020. Since we took over, the zoo has spent thousands upon thousands getting every animal the medical treatment and proper diets that greed robbed them of. Joe Exotic.When I agreed to be involved in this docuseries I was slightly concerned that my Son’s Of Anarchy lifestyle might be too much for the averageRegardless, Lauren and I remain committed to the care of hundreds of animals who rely on us to keep them safe and healthy. But those concerns completely vanished when I saw the segment on Doc Antle, Joe’s Messiah and role model.



Park representatives did not respond to emails and messages for comment before publication; however, Lowe, the zoo’s owner, responded to National Geographic by email after the story published to say, “We aren’t doing cub encounters at this time.” He declined to provide further details. Watch the Netflix docu series that shows how one couple who loves animals took out the World’s largest wildlife trafficker.
“I was just kind of like, why do you need that many animals, you know?”

Powered by Where is the GW Zoo from Tiger King located? But I wouldn’t trade our lives with any Hollywood star.We have some incredibly generous supporters. Retired professional basketball player Shaquille O'Neal, who appears in the show saying he bought two tigers from Joe Exotic, said in an interview after the show's release that he had "never had any business dealings with him".

Toledo Vargas says she saw several groups entering the enclosure during her visit, including a family with six kids that went in after she did.

The risk isn’t just to the tigers— public health experts warn that having multiple people in close proximity poses a risk for human to human virus transmission, and infection rates continue to climb in the U.S..Toledo Vargas and several other visitors that had cub-petting experiences on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, told National Geographic that no special coronavirus-related protective measures were taken before they entered the cub enclosure. Tiger and "liger" cubs sit on grass at Myrtle Beach Safari in April 2019. Retired boxer Mike Tyson said that he was "foolish" and "wrong" to have kept two tigers in his home in the 1990s. Carole Baskin, whose longstanding feud with Joe Exotic was chronicled in the hit Netflix docuseries "Tiger King," has been awarded the zoo once owned by her nemesis.


To get there, you’ll be passing by the Lexington Wildlife Management Area if you’re driving from Oklahoma City. She says she also watched a larger, semi-private experience in which a keeper brought a cub around to a group of 25 people, who each petted it. In April, five tigers and four lions at the Bronx Zoo in New York Tiger and "liger" cubs sit on grass at Myrtle Beach Safari in April 2019. Copyright © 2020 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved.

Lauren and I are forging on, everyday to complete a new facility that can provide our animals with more space, far away from “The Curse of Joe Exotic. “They didn’t tell us anything about coronavirus.”Unaccredited, roadside cub-petting facilities rarely have veterinarians on staff, Ashe says.