We, and Our Country Critters Would Love to See You!

Animal Acres is a beautiful 26-acre sanctuary just 45 minutes from Los Angeles.

Animal Acres Visitor Hours & Tours

Meet our farmed animal friends and hear about their rescue stories during our special "meet & greet" tours. Cuddle with a cow, give a pig a belly rub, talk to turkey - and learn why it's so important to rescue and protect ALL animals.

Animal Acres is open to the public every Sunday and offers one-hour guided tours at 11am and 1pm. Tour fees are $5 per person with children under 3 being free. No appointment is necessary for Sunday tours. The sanctuary gift shop is open on Sundays before and after scheduled tours to purchase gifts, memberships and educational materials.

You can also visit the sanctuary and meet the animals by helping take care of them! Volunteer animal caregivers are needed every day of the week. Volunteers must arrive between 10 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. and commit to a three-hour caregiver shift. No appointment is necessary. Please wear farm cleaning clothes!

Directions to Animal Acres Sanctuary

The Sanctuary is located approximately 40 minutes from Los Angeles. Take Interstate 5 North to Highway 14 North (Antelope Valley Hwy towards Palmdale). Take Highway 14 North approximately 18 miles. Take the RED ROVER MINE ROAD exit; the exit will curve to the right; take the first LEFT (you will be on Ward Road), and this road ends at ESCONDIDO CANYON ROAD. Take a LEFT on ESCONDIDO CANYON ROAD. The Sanctuary is the first farm on the left; look for buildings with red tiled roofs and mailboxes in front of driveway. The address is 5200 Escondido Canyon Road, Acton, CA 93510.

Sanctuary Accommodations

Hotels within a 15-minute drive from Animal Acres:

• Best Western Inn & Suites
  600 West Palmdale Blvd, Palmdale, CA 93551
  661-575-9322
• Days Inn
  130 E. Palmdale Blvd, Palmdale, CA 93550
  661-273-1400
• Ramada Inn
  300 W. Palmdale Blvd. Palmdale, CA 93551
  661-273-1200
• Holiday Inn
  38630 Fifth St. W, Palmdale, CA 93551
  661-947-8055
• Courtyard by Marriott Palmdale
  530 W. Avenue P, Palmdale, CA 93551
  661-947-4100

We ate no flesh in Eden, but afterwards, when things got hard, we forgot the peaceful kinship of that ancient kingdom. As our teeth sank into their flesh, we had to deny them. So we said they had no souls, no reason, no thumbs, no speech. We were so different. We made a chain of things to protect us - fire, medicine, our locking houses, many kinds of clothes. And we renamed them - farm product, fur crop, renewable resource. Pray that we will see their faces again in the mirror of creation, the miracle of animals, their clear eyes meaning more than profit to our own.