This is a great place to take your little kids to. They have quite a variety of friendly animals to look at: boars, guinea pings, all kinds of fowl, goats, camels, and even ponies you can pet. They provide food to give the animals at vending machines. They also have a unique play area where children can play, including a barn buggy and decorative life size cows where kids can stand on, besides the standard swings, slides, etc. The park also has lots of grassy area with picnic tables and grills where families can barbecue and family or friends picnics. A very lovely and peaceful place. This place has been there for many years, but it has only become what it's now in the last 2-3 years.
Took grandkids and they loved feeding the animals, Safe and fun little playground and beautiful ponds and flower gardens
As a child of the 60's, I truly miss the zoo that was lost to flooding. Over the years it has gotten smaller & smaller. Now there are just a few farm animals, but the grounds are impecably kept and nice play equipment for young kids.
We love Sibley Park! Spacious, clean, cute and fun play area. Love the animals! Tons of space for kids to run, play ball etc.... Nice picnic areas too! Wonderful place to take the family.
The park itself is very pretty, along the Minnesota River bottom. A nice place to take kids and let them run. Zoo is quite small.
If you want a beautiful place in the Mankato area for pictures go to Sibley. We are extremely happy that we chose this place for our engagement photos. It is absolutely beautiful!
The kids and I traveled with my husband on a day work trip. I had lots planned that didn't include this park. I happened to come across it on my GPS. Do to the quality of this park we didn't go to do anything else that day. The equipment is in great condition and is unlike any of the parks we have gone to during travel. Fun barnyard theme. The zoo is accessible for your children to touch and feed the animals. There is also a Koi pond and the fish love to eat. I found this park to be a little jem!
Don't expect and overr the top traditional zoo. This is a simple mom and pop operation and veru casual affair. During the winter and the holiday lights there are reindeer.
Very, very nice place with wonderful play structures and exercise track for adults. Lovely garden and cute farm animals to visit with.
This park offers something for everyone. Gardens, playgrounds with updated play equipment, a charming farm- theme animal park(Sibley Park Zoo), trails and paths to walk. One area of the park also has baseball fields which are heavily used in the summer. This is worth a visit if you are in town whether you have young children or not. It is a lovely place to walk around in the summer and also to get a nice view of the river.