BY POPULAR REQUEST we have created an exclusive experience that gives up 2 guests the opportunity to spend 3 entire hours on the Sloth Encounter of a lifetime! Yes, that’s right! As our Sloth Keeper in training you will spend 3 hours interacting with not 1, not 2, but all 3 of the sloths here at Ocoee Riverside Farm! In this hands-on encounter sloth keeper trainees will be educated on everything slothfull! From learning about the different species of sloths, to their unique anatomical adaptations that allow them to hang endlessly, fall from distances of 100 feet without injury and TONS more interesting facts that make these creatures so amazing! Whats more, your encounter supports The Sloth Conservation Foundation and includes a “Sloth Keeper” t-shirt as well as a beautiful sloth bracelet providing sloth tracking of your own wild sloth in Costa Rica! This encounter is open to both lodging and non-lodging guests. No Discount Codes apply. For an amazing experience the age requirements, as well as the 2 person max limit, is strictly enforced.
DETAILS:
- Minimum age requirement is 18
- Age 13-17 allowed with participating adult
- Encounter time: 10am to 1pm
- Available Monday-Thursday
- Includes educational opportunities
- Includes sloth meal prep and hand feeding
- Includes hands-on interactions with 3 sloths
- Includes holding sloths
- Includes 1 t-shirt w/option to purchase additional
- Includes 1 sloth tracking bracelet w/option to purchase additional
- Includes a “Certified Sloth Keeper” certificate
- Supports The Sloth Conservation Foundation
- Price: $849.99 flat rate 1-2 people
CANCELLATION / REFUND POLICY: Cancellation requests must be submitted to the farm via email. A 90% refund is available for cancelation requests made at least 72 hrs prior to the encounter time. Requests of less than 72 hrs but more than 48 hrs will be refunded 50%. There are no refunds for cancellations inside of 48 hrs. With the exception of horse, pony & camel rides our encounters run rain or shine. In the event that the farm needs to cancel for any reason guests will be refunded 100%.
LIABILITY WAIVER MUST BE SIGNED BY, OR ON BEHALF OF, ALL GUESTS LODGING WITH US AND/OR PARTICIPATING IN OUR EVENTS AND ENCOUNTERS.
WARNING: Under Tennessee law, there is no liability for an injury to or death of a participant, or damage to the property of a participant, in an agritourism activity conducted at this agritourism location or by this agritourism professional if such injury, death, or property damage results from the inherent risks of the agritourism activity. Inherent risks of agritourism activities include, among others, risks of injury and damage inherent to land, equipment, and animals, as well as the potential for you to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to your injury or death or to the damaging of your own property. You are assuming the risk of participating in this agritourism activity. ~Tenn. Code § 43-39-10
