Monorail - Minnesota Zoo

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  snowleopard

• 2 Jul 2008

July 1st, 2008. My wife and I didn't pay the few dollars to ride the monorail, as we prefer to walk around alll zoos.

 

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  Arizona Docent

• 22 Feb 2009

How many zoo monorails are there?

Although I like to walk too (to photograph), I think monorails are lots of fun. Does anyone have a list of every U.S. zoo or wildlife park that has a monorail? I know two I have been on before no longer exist: Busch Gardens (Florida) and San Diego Wild Animal Park.

Here are the ones I know of:

Dallas Zoo
Bronx Zoo
Minnesota Zoo
Miami Metrozoo

 

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  okapikpr

• 22 Feb 2009

Philadelphia Zoo and Miami Seaquarium used to have one too.

 

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  reduakari

• 22 Feb 2009

Toronto had one--abandoned it several years ago.

 

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  Ituri

• 22 Feb 2009

That's kind of sad. All of these defunct monorails. They must be a beast to upkeep.

 

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  jbnbsn99

• 23 Feb 2009

Yes indeed, the monorails (at least our in Dallas) are a bear to maintain, but we have a great maintenance crew for them so they are usually in working order.

 

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  BlackRhino

• 25 Feb 2009

The monorail in Miami always seems to be in working order

 

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  Zoogoer2000

• 1 Sep 2009

Toronto learned the hard way about upkeep (twice!)

[ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Zoo_Domain_Ride]Toronto Zoo Domain Ride - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

just read the article

 

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  In The Park

• 5 Mar 2017

I just wrote an article about the Minnesota Zoo monorail so for anyone who is interested if they come across this like I did tonight - https://parkhistories.com/2017/03/03/skytrail-mzg

 

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  snowleopard

• 5 Mar 2017

@In The Park: Great article. Thanks for the link!