
BC Wildlife Park coming off third-best year on record for attendance levels
KAMLOOPS — The BC Wildlife Park in Kamloops is reporting another successful year of operations as it welcomed 117,727 people during its most recent fiscal year, which ended on Jan. 31.
“This will be the third best annual attendance that we’ve had,” General Manager Glenn Grant told CFJC Today. “We did reach 119,800 people back in 2019 and we reached 118,170 back in 2022.”
The Wildlife Park was coming off a tough 2023, where attendance levels were down in part because of a bad summer fire season, the worst on record in British Columbia.
While 2024 was the fourth-worst fire season on record in B.C., most of the land burned last summer was in the Prince George Fire Centre. In the Kamloops area, the biggest impacts were caused by the Shetland Creek blaze near Spences Bridge.