Bluebird Gap Farm

If you have young kids, you can’t go wrong with this free petting farm and playground.

The intentions of BBGF are to educate the community about animals. However, proper animal husbandry is extremely lacking. Particularly in their equine care. When a horse is over 30 years old, severely arthritic, skinny, falling down and can’t get up, left in the extreme cold to shiver, that’s not education, thats torture. Please, for the sake of the animal, have the kind decency to know when they are at the point of constant pain. I’ve seen this horse fall down, not able to get back up, taking several minutes of being in torturous pain to get back on all fours. I’ve seen people gasp at this and ask what’s wrong. It’s so sad. :(Give him respect and proper care or give him some dignity and put him down. my prayers for this animal.

One of the best free places to go with your child. Various farm and non traditional farm animals to view from chickens to emus. Beautiful white and blue peacocks strolling around the grounds to enjoy when unattended children are not chasing them around. A garden area to explore both flowers and edible plants.
The farm has done some renovations and the pond in the middle that used to have geese, owls and other birds is gone and presented in its place is a big grassy lot.
A nice playground divided with two levels of play. Bigger kids have a mire challenging part and littler kids have a smaller version to explore.
There is a short trail to explore where you will see their tortoise, some rabbits and a variety of ducks and geese and other water fowls.
Picnic area in addition to the picnic shelter offers plenty of space for large parties.

It’s free and it shows: those poor animals.
I don’t even WANT to write a review.
The state of the animals was absolutely pathetic.
But by all means, if you want a huge playground for your kids and some depressing-​looking scraggly chickens to stare at: go.

Very open and spacious, you can feed animals, bring cash for animal food, lots of renovations, New parking lot, learning center, petting of animals, clean, well shaded, New playground, fun staff.

I live in Norfolk, but visit Bluebird Gap Farm regularly because my husband works on that side of the water and we like to meet him for lunch. This is such a sweet little place. We take a small stroll throughout the farm and then pack lunches and enjoy them at the picnic tables while the animals stroll around us.
My little guy is still too small to play at the playground, but its a nice little set up with every feature a child could ask for. They also have a gardens area that is a cute place to take pictures :)
Overall this is simply a relaxing (and free) place to visit and enjoy time outdoors.

Its a pretty cool spot but small and not somewhere you could really spend a whole afternoon. Although they’re re-​doing the picnic area so that may change. Their is also a playground but it’s in direct sunlight and was almost too hot to use. Good place to visit at least once and kill and hour or so.

This place is amazing! We took our 3 kids here after a trip to Bass Pro Shop which is right around the corner. The park is kept up beautifully and we were so pleasantly surprised that it was all free. There is a gorgeous park for the kids. There were a ton of animals to walk around and see. The gardens were so pretty. What a hidden jewel! With the picnic tables, it would also be a great place for a kid’s birthday party! We will definitely be back!

Great place to come on a nice day, especially if you have kids. It’s free and there are plenty of animals to check out, even a few roaming freely.

We don’t have any kids, but wanted to check this place out since we just moved to the area and the concept was intriguing. It’s free, so that’s awesome.
When we arrived, it was obvious right away that the parking lot needs to be bigger! We had to park in the mud. Then we noticed the peacocks roaming around the parking lot, which seems kind of concerning, but the park staff actually addresses this on their FAQ bulletin board… the peacocks are free to go where ever they want apparently.
There’s a good variety of animals, and informational signs for each. Also a nice playground, which was super crowded when we were there. If I had small children, I’m sure I would end up taking them here all the time.

This is a great place to go that’s FREE if you have small children. Just be watchful of the turkeys, sometimes they try to take a nip at you. Also, don’t come during story time… It’s a beast to get out!

Park is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays.

I’ve been going here since I was a kid and it’s just as cool now as it was then. The playground has been updated which is awesome. There are all kinds of animals and some that you can even feed.
On nice days this place can be CROWDED. Absolutely insane, so keep that in mind!

This is such a cute, FREE place! I think Nicole B pretty much covered most of the logistical details. Petting zoo/​playground in one. It’s true, it’s not quite clear what animals you can and cannot pet (some signs say «animals bite», others do not) but a little common sense will tell you not to stick your mutts in the goat pen where people usually feed them or they’ll mistake your fingers for food. Also, my daughter thought it was a riot that the peacocks are just roaming the park and hopping around on the barns and in the road. There’s a specific albino peacock that piqued her interest for awhile so that was fun.
They have weekly events, such as the Llama shearing every Wednesday in the summer, which was what brought us today. It was cool to watch for the first couple minutes and then we got the gist of it. They sure do take their time getting things set up and prepared, all the kids were kind of going nuts waiting around. But I think it’s a cute idea.
The playgrounds are suitable. One for the youngers, one for the olders. Behind the playground there’s a rabbit and turtle section. If you keep walking back, you’ll see a gorgeous lake leading to the Azalea hiking trail, which I want to save for a relaxing hike on another day. Overall, we killed 2 hours here and I exhausted the kid, for free; that’s all I can really ask for.

Heard about this place from a friend of mine that takes her kids here. Bluebird Gap Farm is basically a free petting zoo and park, open to the public. Really enjoyed the idea, and my toddler had a good time. It’s rather small though, and it’s pretty unclear which pets you can and cannot actually pet. Some of the animals look very skinny and/​or sick, which kind of creeped me out a little bit. But, it’s free, so no harm, no foul.
There is also playground equipment there, which is pretty nice. There are also opportunities to buy food from stands.
I think this is a great place for kids, but I think any kid over the age of 6 or 7 (at the most) will be very bored. ALSO. Do NOT wear open-​toe shoes or sandals here! There are plenty of birds/​ducks/​geese/​etc and there are droppings everywhere!