Meru National Park is a Kenyan national park located east of Meru, 350 km (220 mi) from Nairobi. Covering an area of 870 km2 (340 sq mi), it is one of the best known national parks in Kenya. Meru was one of the two areas in which conservationists George Adamson and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness, made famous in the best selling book and award-winning movie Born Free. Elsa the Lioness is buried in this park and part of Joy's ashes were scattered on her gravesite.
The park has a wide range of wild animals including the African bush elephants, lions, African leopards, cheetahs, eastern black rhinoceros, southern white rhinoceros, Grévy's zebra, hippopotami.