Events - Event View

"Senior Safari” at Happy Hollow Zoo in San Jose's Kelley Park, San Jose 

Thursday, September 26, 2024 (9:00 am - 2:00 pm)

Special start time - 9:00 AM -  
Happy Hollow Park & Zoo is a place for the young and the young at heart. Visitors age 50 and up are invited to take over San Jose’s iconic Happy Hollow Park & Zoo and feel like a kid again! Once in, we will be able to sketch and paint the animals and the Park's other attractions and even ride the carousel.  Please go light on the art supplies:  carts and easels are not permitted inside the zoo.  We do have permission to do artwork if we keep it on our lap and make it 9" x 12" or smaller.

Senior Safari admission and parking are free, and guests are welcome to stay for the day after gates open to the general public. Guests who enter before 10 a.m. may stay the whole day for free!  But don't be late because even seniors have to pay after 10 AM.    For those not yet fortunate enough to be a 'senior', the Zoo opens for general admission at 10:00 AM.   Admission costs $14.25, parking costs $10.00.  Painters will need to register before entering Senior Safari Event at Tables in the plaza   Once registered, you will receive a card granting you faster event entry.

Directions:  Please park in the old parking lot on Senter Road, NOT the new parking lot on Story.  Seniors get free parking in the Senter lot, and there are nice picnic areas there.
From 101 take Story Road west, left on Senter Road and pass the park on the left, U-turn at Phelan Ave, and continue back on Senter.  From 280 exit at 10th/11th streets, follow signs to Spartan Stadium, left on Phelan, left on Senter.  In both cases you will first come to parking lot for Friendship Garden on the right, then the parking lot for zoo on the right.

Attendance: Attendance is free and is open to all SCVWS members.

Email: paintsites@scvws.org