Lake Tobias Wildlife Park

Lake Tobias is a wilflife park in Halifax, north of Harrisburg and over Peter's Mountain.
They have animals in cages like a traditional zoo as well as a petting zoo where you can mingle with goats and alpacas. When you are done walking around and looking at the animals you can take the safari tour. School buses have had their tops removed and a tour guide takes you all over the park while telling you about all the wildlife you are seeing. The animals are very used to people b/c most of them allow you to get very close. An elk actually climbed on board and his friends ate crackers out of the kids hands. I think the kids were most excited about riding a school bus and not being buckled into a car seat!
I had never been to Lake Tobias and was expecting a small little mom and pop operation. It is actually a very large business and we counted at least 5 school buses with the tops cut off. The day we were there they were expecting 1,000 guests.
There are bathrooms, a concession stand (very slow service), a picnic pavilion and a small gift shop.
I would recommend going on a cool or overcast day b/c there isn't a lot of shade and it can get hot on the open top buses. We packed a lunch and ate under a shady tree at a picnic table overlooking the man-make lake. There are often buy one get one free coupons in the Clipper for the Safari tour. We had a great outing here, I highly recommend it!
On the drive home you'll pass 3B Ice Cream on the right hand side as you come down from Peter's Mountain. They have delicious ice cream and huge portions.
http://www.laketobias.com/