Zoo And Camper Park In Hattiesburg With Video,

HattiesBurg Camper Park Zoo Is located on Hardy Street In Hattiesburg Mississippi.

The Hattiesburg Zoo is one of the city's most visited attractions.

Visitors to the Hattiesburg Zoo will begin paying admission on May 8.The city council approved the plan Tuesday.Adults will pay $2 and senior citizens and children under 12 will be charged $1. Children under 3 will be admitted free.Plans call for the zoo to be closed for the two weeks before May 8, the day the city will open the new jaguar exhibit.Funds raised by the admission fees will be used to build new exhibits at the zoo

Ride The Train At Hattiesburg Zoo,

This hooting attraction is fun for the whole family, just toot alone the zoo and look at the all the animals.

No matter your age Camper Park is a much better Zoo with view, crossing Gordon Creak

and railing though the Parks play ground.

Should it be approved, the money for the Hattiesburg Zoo would go toward helping with construction of a new tiger exhibit, which is expected to cost $3 million. The zoo also hopes to open a new lion exhibit, which would cost $4 million.

Those may seem like high numbers but in the zoological world, they're not. And while a zoo may not be seen as a huge money-maker, a quality zoo, especially for a growing, family-centered city such as Hattiesburg, can mean a lot to the quality of life in a community. Given Hattiesburg's own potential and its proximity to residents on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, the half-million dollar bond would be a good investment for the entire state.

Water park was not created for permanent residents

Ordinarily, the plight of the people evicted from Lamar County's Little Black Creek would generate plenty of sympathy and pleas to allow the annual campers to stay.

Their circumstances, however, not to mention that of the Pat Harrison Waterway District which oversees the park, are not ordinary ones. The park needs to be available to the recreational vehicles that crowd the lake every spring and summer.

Those are the legitimate users of the site, and the annual campers' situation wasn't helped by their not having the proper tags and licenses. A total of 12 annual campers – individuals who use the site in the absence of the recreational vehicles – plus about 20 campers in FEMA trailers, were given an eviction notice last Friday; they have until March 9 to be out.

The reason for the eviction notices was for no license tags or expired tags on 10 of the 12 campers. The agreement with FEMA to provide space for those who lost their homes in Katrina was not renewed.

What some may see as an insensitive bureaucracy coming down hard on those too vulnerable to fight back is not the case here. It's been 18 months since Hurricane Katrina, and the annual campers who've been using the site knew what the rules were. Moreover, by not having the proper licenses and tags, they weaken their position immensely.

That's why they were evicted.

"It was time to get our recreational vehicles back," said Chris Bowen, executive director of the waterway district. He said the recreational users and those who've been coming for years haven't had the same access since Katrina and the subsequent influx of Katrina trailers.

The simple fact is the waterpark is a recreational site designed for vehicles that use the park on a seasonal basis. It was not intended to be a homesteading adventure for those who saw a good thing and didn't want to let it go.

It was good while it lasted but it's time to start returning the waterpark to its original intent.