Oglebay Park
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Oglebay Park is a municipal park located in Wheeling, West Virginia, located on 1,650 acres (6.7 km²). Originally known as Waddington Farms, it was donated to the city of Wheeling in 1926 by Earl W. Oglebay, owner of the Oglebay-Norton Company. Its expansive history includes that of being a farmhouse – before Earl W. Oglebay bought it – and a model farm run by Earl W. Oglebay. It currently incorporates three championship golf courses, eleven tennis courts, a large outdoor pool, extensive walking trails, the Good Zoo, The Mansion Museum (operated by the Oglebay Institute), the Bissonett gardens, a greenhouse, the Anne Kuchinka Amphitheater, the Wilson Lodge (containing over 200 rooms), 49 cottages, The Schrader Center (a nature center operated by the Oglebay Institute), a planetarium (located within the Good Zoo), a ski slope, Camp Russell, and Schenk Lake, which is used for fishing, pedal boating, and several nightly fountain shows in season.
Annual events at the park include The Winter Festival of Lights, Oglebayfest, the Ohio County Fair, the West Virginia Open (tennis), and Springfest.
It is studied by developers worldwide as the only self-supporting municipal park in operation.
The Good Zoo
The Good Zoo was dedicated in memory of a seven-year old boy, Phillip Mayer Good, who loved nature. Its collection includes red wolves, river otters, spectacled bears, cottontop tamarins, lemurs, an ocelot, an ostrich, llamas, goats, a red-tailed hawk, a barred owl, barn owls, bald eagles, red pandas, gorals, a red-crowned crane, a sandhill crane, and many other animals from all over the globe. It includes a train, which travels through the ostrich exhibit and all throughout the zoo, and a discovery lab, with an indoor South American Rainforest exhibit and a summer 2006, Australian Outback exhibit, which includes red kangaroos as well as many other animals from Australia and New Guinea.
The Good Zoo has many SSP programs.The Species Survival Plan (SSP) is a cooperative breeding and conservation program instituted by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The goal of the SSP programs is to help as many species as possible through captive breeding, education, research, and habitat preservation.
Annual events at the Good Zoo include Boo at the Zoo (in October) and an Easter Egg Hunt (in April).
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