One visit to the Great Plains Zoo, and you’ll find so many reasons to Love Your Zoo! Home to 1,000 animals – from anteaters to zebras – the Zoo offers up-close views of animals often not found in larger zoos, including giraffes, tigers, rhinos and a jumping, hooting array of primates. Watch the playful tiger cubs at the Asian Cat exhibit. Visit mom, dad, and baby rhino at the new “Rare Rhinos of Africa” exhibit. Feed a goat, ride a camel, or get a kiss from a sheep with six horns in the Hy-Vee Face-to-Face Farm. While you’re at the Zoo, take a train ride around Africa (the exhibit, not the continent), or a whirl on the Sanford Carrousel.
The Zoo also includes the Delbridge Museum of Natural History, a one-in-the-world collection of 150 mounted animals, including 36 “vanishing species”.
HOURS
OPEN YEAR-ROUND
April – September
9am-7pm (last admission at 6pm)
October – March
10am-5pm (last admission at 4pm)
Closed: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day & New Years Day
Website:
http://www.greatzoo.org