📌 East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
★★★
Meerkats, tamarins and coatis; wildcats, burrowing owls and leaf-cutting ants… Calderglen Zoo doesn’t have the big-name animals to rival Edinburgh Zoo, but for the tiny admission fee you won’t be complaining. This family-friendly menagerie occupies a small corner of Calderglen Country Park on the edge of East Kilbride, and has around 50, mostly fun-sized species housed around an attractive garden area, with a few more inside a warm conservatory. If you’ve time to spare afterwards, take a walk along the Rotten Calder river.
🌍 Location
📌 Next to the main car park in Calderglen Country Park, off A726 1 mi southeast of East Kilbride town centre
🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NS 654527
🛰️ GPS coordinates: 55.748754,-4.146375
🚌 On or near High Common Road (0.5 mi)
🚗 Car park
📝 Key info
⌚ Daily
🎫 £4 adult / £2 child
