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Sihlwald Nature Discovery Park

Since the turn of the millennium, the former commercial forest of the City of Zurich has been allowed to revert to wilderness. Today, it is the largest nature reserve in the Swiss Plateau and a park of national importance. Wilderness means diverse habitats for plants, animals and fungi. 

The visitor centre in Sihlwald provides information and maps for your foray into the local wilderness. The Sihlwald exhibition also offers you an insight into how the formerly intensively utilised forest is developing into a natural forest. The visitor centre is open from the end of March to the end of October.

Langenberg Wildlife Park

Langenberg houses native and formerly native mammals in spacious enclosures. Their near-natural design allows brown bears, bison, lynxes, wolves, deer and wild boar to be observed almost as if they were in the wild. The animals are kept in such a way that they can express as much of their natural behaviour as possible. In particular, this includes finding mates, rearing their young and, in the case of social species, living together in large groups.

Further information about the Wildnispark Zurich Foundation