GRAY — The Maine Wildlife Park, on Route 26, will open for the 2014 season on Saturday, April 19, at 9:30 a.m.

Visitors will be happy to note that for the sixth year in a row, the park’s admission fees remain the same.

The Wildlife Park has a variety of new things to see and do this year. A brand-new native snake and amphibian exhibit is taking shape in the visitor’s center using the space formerly occupied by the restrooms. There are new games, puzzles and exhibits in there as well.

The turtle ponds have been completely reconstructed to ameliorate leaking ponds and predation. The Friends of the Wildlife Park are funding the construction of a new lynx exhibit, on which work has already begun. The park also has a new resident, an unreleasable merlin, which can be viewed in the raptor exhibits.

New events are planned for several weekends beginning Saturday, May 3, starting with a snake and turtle event. Raptor programs, an L.L.Bean camping demo, a Tailgate Yard Sale, Summer Solstice Farmers Market, Meet Donn Fendler Day, Fish on Ice, Wildlife Encounters and Enchanted Forests will all be new and different. Favorites like Mad Science, pow wow, chainsaw artists, Northwoods Law Day, Rick Charette and Halloweenfest will all be back as well.

The park has more than 30 species of native wildlife on display, plus wildlife gardens, nature trails, a fish hatchery and other interactive exhibits and displays. It is open daily from April 19 through Nov. 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; visitors must leave the premises by 6.

Admission is free for ages 3 and under; $5 ages 4-12; $7 for adults, and $5 for seniors. Groups of 15 or more are $3.50 per person. Bring a picnic and spend the day. Family and community season passes are available for purchase in the Department of Fish & Wildlife’s online store www.mefishwildlife.com.

For more information, call 207-657-4977 or visit www.mainewildlifepark.com, www.mefishwildlife.com or on Facebook.