Aug. 2025 - Sea Otter Coast Construction Update

Do you know when the otters are supposed to arrive?

This is the first time in a long time the construction walls have been removed so the public can get a better look at the future sea otter exhibit.

Here's what it looked like in 2023 from a similar angle: Apr. 2023 - Black Bear Ridge - Future Sea Otter Exhibit - ZooChat

Here's another similar angle just closer to the exhibit when it was home to polar bears: Jun. 2012-Middle Polar Bear exhibit viewing - ZooChat

The photo in this link essentially covers the space of how big the sea otter exhibit will be. I will get photos eventually, but for now, all I can describe is they added a strip of land along the far back wall, wooden posts and rope and what appears to be sand (or maybe sand colored rock) to make what seems to depict a boardwalk.: Cincinnati Zoo 2003 - View alongside the first Polar Bear exhibit - ZooChat

@Jonathan Petersson I am being told this entire area may open near the beginning of October.

@Moebelle any idea what day?

@NoctuaLunae The bears should be in quarantine for another week. As far as I know, they don't have sea otters yet.