Comments on: REXBURG ATTRACTIONS: “Don’t know If I can Bear It”

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:40:45 +0000

Tautphus park, Idaho falls: wonderful fun playground, small amusement park ferris wheel ECt… Cheap simple fun. Zoo has a fun winding path, cool and shady and not to big. Perfect!! Inexspensive fun with alot of variety along a beautiful river.

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:31:33 +0000

Riot zone: cleanest go cart park I have ever been too. Kids and husband love it. You could could spend alot there, thank goodness no arcade. Good clean fun!

By: Linda

Linda — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:21:48 +0000

Bearworld. We found it to be fun. It is relaxing to drive around and see the animals. The kids loved the petting zoo, the pig was so mean it was fun. We did pay to feed the baby bears, it was exspensive, but we did it. This was about 5 years ago and my kids still remember and talk about it, I am glad we did it and would go again. There are not as many bears as SD bear world, but it is more peacefuland has a petting zoo.

By: Brinda Chiddix

Brinda Chiddix — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:25:07 +0000

I only go to Bear World on Mother’s Day weekend when i am free and all my kids 5 and under are free. My Husband Dave usually has to work. It’s definately not worth what they charge but we did have fun feeding the bears with stale donuts and rotten fruit from the back of a really tall truck. Of course no the charge extra just to ride the truck and then they take your picture and want another $20 to keep it. My in-laws took my kids once and a bear actually stood on the hood of there car. Thay also have a petting zoo and you can pay another $20 if you want to feed the bear cubs. So if you have plenty of money to burn. Go for it!!!

By: jennaloha

jennaloha — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:25:42 +0000

Thanks, JamesBC on the feedback. It’s just as I expected then. I’ll use my tourist dollars for bowling at the American Family Entertainment Center instead.

By: Dallan Wright

Dallan Wright — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:01:56 +0000

That just sounds sad. Now, if it was called “Three Legged Wolf World” I would be tempted to take a visit.

By: JamesBC

JamesBC — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:49:38 +0000

Many years ago (like 10 or so) I lived out in the Thornton/Lorenzo area where Bear World was ‘built’. I drove by it many times without seeing much more than what you can see from the highway. Later, after I moved to Tetonia, a co worker who had purchased an all day pass for some relatives who were visiting invited a bunch of us to pile into the van (to which the free pass had been assigned) to go down and have a look. We rode down, and went through the winding track revealing animals carefully hidden from the view from the road. It was, perhaps predictably, sad. One of the wolves had 3 legs. The grizzly bear paced along a pen made of electrified fence. Can you get close views of the animals? Yes. Are there wolves, bears and grizzly bears? Yes. Is it the pinnacle of tourist trap-dom? Yes. Is it worth the $70 or so? No. I’m not sure it is even worth going for free, unless you just want to get it out of your system. The stretch that they make to have the ‘Yellowstone’ connection is is more tenuous than the naming of the ‘grand teton mall’ for a peak that cannot be seen from there.
There are many wonderful things in the greater Rexburg area, but I’m afraid Bear World isn’t one of them.