Crocodylus Park, Darwin: Tickets, Feeding Times and What to Expect

TL;DR: Crocodylus Park is a wildlife park and research facility in Berrimah, about 15 minutes from Darwin’s CBD, home to more than 1,000 crocodiles. General admission is $49 adult, $39 senior and $28 child, free guided tours run four times daily, and it’s open 9am to 4pm every day.

Darwin has two crocodile attractions and people mix them up constantly.

Crocosaurus Cove is in the CBD, on Mitchell Street, and it’s built around the Cage of Death: you get lowered into a tank with a large saltwater crocodile in a clear cylinder. It’s a single headline experience in a compact city-centre venue.

Crocodylus Park is a wildlife park and zoo in Berrimah, 15 minutes out of town, attached to a working crocodile research operation. It has more than a thousand crocodiles across every size class from hatchlings to old males, plus lions, monkeys, meerkats and a wider animal collection. It’s a half-day out rather than a one-hour attraction.

Different places, different reasons to go. If you’ve already done the Cage of Death, Crocodylus Park is not a repeat.

What’s there

More than 1,000 crocodiles. That number is the whole point. You see hatchlings in tanks, juveniles in pens, and mature saltwater crocodiles in large enclosures, which gives you a sense of the growth curve that a single big animal in a tank never does.

Free guided tours, four times daily, at 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 3:30pm. The tours are included once you’ve paid admission, and they’re the best part of the visit. Guides at a research facility talk about crocodiles differently from guides at a theme park.

Crocodile feeding tours. Feeding demonstrations run through the day and are the times worth planning around.

Hold a baby crocodile. A supervised encounter with a young crocodile, jaws taped, staff managing the handling. Popular with kids and a straightforward photo.

Reptile and crocodile handling is included in general admission.

The wider collection. Lions, primates, meerkats and other animals, which is what makes this a zoo rather than a crocodile farm with a viewing platform.

Jumping Crocodile Cruise add-on

The Jumping Crocodile Cruise is an optional extra on top of admission:

• Adult: $21
• Child: $18

Worth knowing: we also run standalone Morning and Afternoon Jumping Crocodile Cruises from Darwin on the Adelaide River, which is a different and larger-scale experience on a wild river system. If a jumping crocodile cruise is the thing you want most, compare the two before booking.

Tickets

Family passes

Infants under 3 enter free. Reptile and crocodile handling is included in general admission.

Getting there

Crocodylus Park is on McMillans Road in Berrimah, about 15 minutes from Darwin’s CBD by car.

• Bus or taxi from the city both work. Check current route numbers with the operator if taking public transport.
• Caravan and coach parking is available on site, which is unusual and useful if you’re travelling in a larger vehicle.
• Opening hours: 9am to 4pm, every day except Christmas Day.

Aim to arrive by 10am or 12pm to catch a free guided tour near the start of your visit, then work through the rest of the park at your own pace. Arriving at 3pm gives you one hour and one tour.

Fitting it into a Darwin trip

Crocodylus Park is a half-day, which makes it a good pairing with a Darwin city morning or an afternoon before an evening flight.

If you’re building a longer Top End itinerary, our Darwin tours cover the region’s bigger days out: Litchfield National Park, Katherine Gorge, the Tiwi Islands and the Adelaide River jumping crocodile cruises. Crocodylus Park isn’t a scheduled inclusion on those itineraries, so check the current tour page for stops, but it slots easily into a spare half-day between them.

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