10-05-2025
Barnyard shenanigans! Three alpacas escape from Cedar Point petting zoo
There's been another great escape from Cedar Point's Barnyard.
Last summer, camels and then goats took a stroll along the Sandusky amusement park's Frontier Trail.
This time alpacas − three of them − escaped from the petting zoo area and strolled through the park.
Unlike last year's incident where park guests opened gates for the critters to escape, Cedar Point spokesman Tony Clark said the incident May 9 happened while a third-party worker was cleaning an area of the petting zoo and left a gate unattended.
Clark said the alpacas then began walking along the park's railroad tracks in the Frontier Trail area behind the Millennium roller coaster.
Park guest Laura Steuk-Mastropaola was on the Cedar Point & Lake Erie train when the alpacas came waltzing up to the station where passengers were boarding.
"I am used to herds of animals but not alpacas," said the Berlin Heights resident. "Ironically, we run a therapeutic horsemanship program near Sandusky (the Boots to Grasses Therapeutic Horsemanship Program) so seeing animals that were not horses come cantering toward us was even funnier."
She caught the caper on video before park workers were able to wrangle the alpacas and return them to The Barnyard.
After last year's two escapes, Cedar Point said it had implemented additional measures to ensure there would not be any further escapes.
The Barnyard is home to a variety of animals, including cows, sheep, piglets, turtles, ducks and donkeys.
Clark said none of the alpacas or park guests were injured in the mishap on May 9.
Honey Hill Farms in Kentucky provides the animals and workers at the Barnyard at Cedar Point.
This article originally appeared on Akron Beacon Journal: Cedar Point has to corral three alpacas that escaped from petting zoo
