Hoffman’s Dairy Garden

Clearly these animals need to be taken and brought to a place where they can be cared for. This place needs to be reported, nationally. Do it, people.

I don’t know the whole back story to this place… but it is quite depressing seeing the animals in such small habitats. Petting zoo was nice. Staff not overly friendly or helpful. Everything seemed quite unorganized. The «Pumpkin Express» did not take you to any pumpkins. It didn’t take you anywhere really. Perhaps this place is more put together on the weekends.

Just returned from three hours of fun at Hoffman’s with my 3 and 5 year old grandsons, and we would return in a heartbeat.
Here are some of the kids attractions
— petting zoo with llamas, adult and baby pig, goats, etc
— four inflatables — castle, slide, obstacle course, and traditional bounce house
— terrific covered hay maze. Lots of tunnels, twists and turns.
— Homemade carousel — wooden horses with carts. Fun, bumpy ride.
— Tractor-​driven hay ride
— ball pit surrounded by hay bales
— dried corn «sandbox» with shovels and vehicles to play with
— Bins containing dirt and potatoes, with shovels provided for digging up the potatoes
— Wooden cow — sandwich boards on either side of a bucket with udders underneath for pretend milking — farm stuff
— Walk on the wild side — an indoor guided walk with individual flashlights through dark passages decorated with jungle foliage, and exotic snakes, spiders and reptiles in aquariums. Scary but not unreasonably frightening for a 3-​year old.
— Haunted cemetary
— Loch ness monster sticking out of the pond, out back
— Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Homer and Marge life-​size characters to take photos with.
For $ 12, kids get a wrist band and unlmiited access to all of the attractions (except the pony rides — $ 5/​each). We had a buy-​one, get-​one free coupon, so it was really a great deal.
They offer reasonably priced food — hot dogs, hamburgers, nachos, etc. Particularly noteworthy, the curly fries are fresh cut while you watch, from huge Idaho potatoes.
If I understand correctly, the kid’s attractions are leased and run independently of the Hoffman farm. Definitely kitschy, but great fun. It was practically empty the day we went (we arrived at 11 am the Saturday before Halloween), and the kids rode and jumped and played non-​stop — often having the attraction to themselves, and never waiting in line, so they were worn out when we were done.
The farm itself seems to be an exotic animal refuge, and if the animals aren’t well cared for as other reviewers stated, it wasn’t obvious to me.

I visited here last October and it made me sick to my stomach. They have a «farm» aka huge amount of animals there being horribly neglected. They have Lions, a Tiger, and a camel, all kept outdoors in Oregon cold and rain. They also have caged housecats, bobcats, and tons of wild animals that I have no idea what they are, but I know they don’t all come from the same environment, and shouldn’t be living in small chicken wire cages in the rain and cold. The bobcats had litterboxes. One animal was trying to knaw it’s arm off. The staff are mainly teens and toothless hick adults who smoked cigarettes as they fed the animals pieces of chicken. Also the poor baby tiger was wearing a harness, and sprays children that look at it, out of fear I’m sure. I wrote to PETA but never heard back. I am calling animal control this season.

Awful place, yes they do have exotic animals, which is cool. But it stinks so bad there, the cages are small and not well cared for. I felt sorry for these animals and wonder how they got a license to keep them. The animals were dirty and some had very little shelter from the rain and cold.
They charge for everything here, we only did the inflatables they were $ 1 each (there is a total of 3 of them.) The food area looked scary too. The glove the man was using looked pretty old and he didn’t even have one on the other hand. Then he only wore it for a short time.
I will never go back to this place.

I was not impressed with this place. While it is neat that they have exotic animals (a lion, tiger, camel, porcupine. etc) they were well cared for. They were in small dirty cages and seemed distressed. One rabbit we saw had a vicious infection in it’s ears. The place is supposedly an exotic animal rescue operation, could’ve fooled me. It was quite disturbing. My girlfriend and I were debating making a call to some agency to investigate their operation.
They have inflatables for the kids and a train ride (car ride) but its nothing to write home about. There is also a hay bale maze which looks as if they used last years hay because there is mold growing on it.
We were going to go out to Sauvie Island but we decided to try a place closer to home this year. Alas, we are going to Sauvie Island next weekend. We didn’t even feel like buying a pumpkin from Hoffman’s after our experiences