One of the most unusual properties for sale upstate right now comes in the form of a 193-acre former zoo. More specifically: the Catskill Game Farm, the first privately owned zoo in the United States
Photo: Walker Esner . When the place opened in 1933, it only held deer, donkeys, and sheep. But in the late ’50s, when it achieved official zoo status, it was able to attain more exotic animals — eventually housing over 150 species, including camels, mountain lions, hippos, kangaroos, llamas, alligators, and prehistoric horses. It brought over 500,000 visitors a year at its peak in the ’60s
After the Game Farm closed in 2006, the grounds were abandoned until a couple bought and transformed the place into an inn and campground in 2012, renovating the old giraffe house into the six-bedroom Long Neck Inn, complete with an open kitchen , a game room , and common area covered in original zoo way-finding signage. The listing photos show one bedroom that appears to occupy some fully enclosed barn stalls , while another looks strangely normal for a former zoo .
Photo: Walker Esner The property was last sold to a group of investors in late 2020 for $1.86 million. They’d planned to continue to use the property as a hotel but with more activities but waves of pandemic-induced cancellations made even running the place untenable. Now, the Game Farm is listed for $3.6 million, almost double the sold price from two years ago. And the flip might just work.
Listing agent Jeanne Rakowski says she’s already gotten interest from people looking to turn it into a development of single-family homes or a small-house community. A lot of the prospective buyers, Rakowski says, remember it as it was a couple of decades back. “It’s a nostalgic place. The first comment from nine out of ten people when they hear about the Game Farm is, ‘Oh my god, I have so many memories of that place as a kid.
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