Old Oyo National Park — Attraction in Oyo State

Old Oyo National Park is one of the national parks of Nigeria, located across northern Oyo State and southern Kwara State, Nigeria. The park is 2,512 km2 of land in northern Oyo state, south west Nigeria, at latitude 8° 15’ and 9° 00’N and longitude 3° 35’ and 4° 42’ E. The location has inevitably placed the park at a vantage position of abundance land area as well as diverse wildlife and cultural/historical settings. Eleven local government areas out of which ten fall within Oyo State and one in Kwara State surround it. The Administrative Head Office is located in Oyo, Isokun area along Oyo-Iseyin road, where necessary information and booking could be made. The landscaping and organized space within the large yard has made the facility very endearing to the public. It is rich in plant and animal resources including buffaloes, bushbuck and a variety of birds. The park is easily accessible from southwestern and northwestern Nigeria. The nearest cities and towns adjoining Old Oyo National Park include Saki, Iseyin, Igboho, Sepeteri, Tede and Igbeti which have their own commercial and cultural attractions...

This apparently is a shadow of itself. You can not visit at will; you must plan a preemptive visit on a weekday to the administrative office, where you will write to the commandant for access to the grounds, which may or may not be granted.

The administrative office is being co-utilized as event ground on weekends; it houses a museum which you can access at anytime by paying a #250 fee.

Below are some pictures taken inside and outside the museum.

One more thing; the Old Oyo park itself has been deemed unsafe as more and more unknown gunmen and other unscrupulous elements have found refuge within...

Still don't know how to best describe the place now, because the last time I visited was 2005 ( 17years ago) we went in educational tour from federal polytechnic ede and we enjoy every bit of the stay from the large room to wild flora and fauna. Trust me, we still all remember eating Amala in Sepeteri( one of the camp of the park)

I hope the government would have done a lot of investment on site to improve the park and others in Nigeria. Those are the treasure area that hold the remaining...