Toledo Zoo

Admission: $9.00 Adults (ages 12- 59) $6.00 Children (ages 2 - 11) and Seniors (60+) FREE for Members and Children under 2 years; free for all Lucas County residents on Mondays between 10 a.m. and noon (must have valid ID; does not apply on holidays)
Parking: $5.00 per vehicle
Open: every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. May 1 - Labor Day. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Labor Day - April 30
Location: 2700 Broadway, Toledo, Ohio 43609 (mailing address: P.O. Box 140130, Toledo, Ohio, 43614)
Phone: (419) 385-5721

This is not your ordinary zoo, folks. For starters, Toledo Zoo houses an internationally-famous Hippoquarium®, where observers watch from inches away as hippos swim and play in their 360,000-gallon glass-sided pool. Other exhibits that make this zoo special are Arctic Encounter, Frog Town, Cheetah Valley, and Primate Forest. The newest exhibit, Africa!, which opened in May of 2004, features free-roaming African animals such as giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, impalas, wild dogs, and ostriches, and can be enjoyed from an observation deck or the guided Safari train that circles the exhibit itself. 

Youngsters will especially enjoy riding the African animal carousel (made in Mansfield, Ohio), playing on the playground, visiting the Museum of Science, and petting the animals in the Children’s Zoo. And then there’s the food; 13 (yes, 13) eateries that include an outdoor gourmet restaurant, a barbeque pavilion, and a cafeteria built inside the former lion house. Who needs McDonald’s?

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