Zoo San Diego

Zoo San Diego is an amazing & world-famous zoo. Founded over 90 years ago, the Zoo is genuine tourist magnetism and has a worldwide status in the field of wildlife and animal care.

Area of San Diego Zoo is 100-acre (40-hectare) and home to over 3,700 rare and endangered animals representing more than 650 species and subspecies, and a prominent botanical collection with more than 700,000 exotic plants. It is located north of downtown San Diego in Balboa Park. The Zoo’s collection was created from a scattering of specimens that remained in Balboa Park at the close of the 1915-1916 Panama-California International Exposition. Dr. Harry M. Wegeforth, and friends incorporated it on Oct. 2, 1916. The Zoo has been in its present location in Balboa Park since 1922. The 100-acre San Diego Zoo has undergone massive changes since its inception in 1916, innovating designs and exhibits that feature 4,000 animals representing 800 species. Not only known for its animals, the San Diego Zoo also has a vast botanical plant and orchid garden. The Orchid House is open for the Orchid Odyssey on the third Friday of every month. San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research is one of the largest zoo-based research centers in the world. Founded in 1975, it is dedicated to preserving and protecting rare and endangered wildlife and habitats. You will see the flamingos at the entrance of the zoo. Then, you will watch other animal one by one. Don’t miss to ride the Double-Decker Guided Bus Tour. It's a great way to start your day at the Zoo, because it's 35 minutes long and covers about 70 percent of the Zoo, so you can get an idea for the layout and pick out animals that you want to return to spend more time seeing. It saves you walking and gets really great views of a lot of the animals, plus the guides have all kinds of interesting facts about the Zoo and the animals. You will see the Sky fari Aerial Tram. It’s is pretty amazing. You get to ride up in the sky with gorgeous views of the entire San Diego Zoo and neighboring Balboa Park.

San Diego Zoo tickets are available in different forms including single day tickets, multi-day tickets and multi-park tickets. Zoo San Diego is open year-round with San Diego’s perfect climate. San Diego Zoo hours vary by season, but the park is open every day of the week including holidays. San Diego Zoo is a great place to go in San Diego for a lot of reasons. Not only is it a huge park with almost inexhaustible exciting animal exhibits to see, but it is also fun for all ages. The park makes an effort to entertain the youngest of kids and also the adults that go with them, or go on their own. Lot of people from different corner of the country & outside of the country comes to visit this amazing Zoo San Diego.