Alma Park Zoo was fully landscaped with walking paths through tropical gardens under a canopy of rainforest trees and plants.

Exotic animals in the collection included sun bears and numerous primate species.

The zoo was owned by Bill Williams who also owned a business called WW Shock Absorbers, but was built by workers, led by Leroy Pidgeon, who lived with his family in the caretakers cottage in the zoo at the time.

Leroy also recovered, transported and replanted many of the mature palm trees that were a statement of the zoo.

These came from older farm blocks around Brisbane that were being sub divided in the early 1970s period and Bill Williams had struck deals to acquire them.