Abandoned Zoos

[Arizona Docent]

Use this thread to list abandoned zoos. What I mean are zoos that were closed but of which there are structural remains that you can still see. I do not want a list of all zoos that ever existed - only those for which some parts are still visible today.

 

[Arizona Docent]

I will start with three. The first two I have seen and photographed and the third is in my state so I could see it if I really wanted to.

Crandon Park Zoo (near Miami, Florida, USA)
Exploring Crandon Park Gardens, a Former Oceanfront Zoo - Curbed Miami

Griffith Park Zoo (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Old LA Zoo in Griffith Park: An Abandoned Zoo | California Through My Lens

Two Guns Zoo (east of Flagstaff, Arizona, USA)
Two Guns, Arizona: A (Cursed) US Ghost Town

 

[Phantom Gaur]

Catskill Game Farm (Catskill, NY)

 

[Arizona Docent]

Jenners Park Zoo (Loup City, Nebraska, USA)
Jenners Park | Only In Your State

 

[Andrew_NZP]

Here's two videos of the Crandon Park Zoo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a--hkl5oPuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXBSq-POF8o

 

[DavidBrown]

The small zoo in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia, still has some of its enclosures standing. They use them for television and movie sets sometimes like in an episode of "Long Gunmen" and the Planet of the Apes reboot.

 

[Chlidonias]

see also:
http://www.zoochat.com/2/roaring-silence-10-cool-creepy-abandoned-170931/
http://www.zoochat.com/25/eerie-abandoned-zoos-256584/
http://www.zoochat.com/2/these-would-fun-explore-375909/
http://www.zoochat.com/2/closed-zoos-21816/

 

[MRJ]

Wildlife Wonderland aka The Giant Worm at Bass, Victoria, Australia is still all in place some 5? years after it closed.

 

[Andrew_NZP]

Article about the Stanley Park Zoo.

YOU SHOULD KNOW | More About The Stanley Park Zoo, A Vancouver Institution Until 1996 | Scout Magazine

 

[kiang]

Calderbank zoo or more commonly known as the Glasgow zoo, closed in 2003, always the poorer cousin of Edinburgh zoo, only ever attracted circa 150'000 visitors a year.

http://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/GlasgowZoo

 

[Screvier20]

Catskill Game Farm (Catskill, NY)

The Old Catskill Game Farm is open for visits. You need to sign up in advance. You can find the info at
The Old Game Farm

 

[Phantom Gaur]

I have visited the old Catskill site. Very interesting to walk around the grounds.

 

[FelipeDBKO]

A lot of zoos in Brazil.

 

[vogelcommando]

Calderbank zoo or more commonly known as the Glasgow zoo, closed in 2003, always the poorer cousin of Edinburgh zoo, only ever attracted circa 150'000 visitors a year.

Secret Scotland - Glasgow Zoo

Another article and some intresting photos of the old Glasgow Zoo :

Remember Glasgow zoo? Here's what it looks like now

 

[Philipine eagle]

Zwartberg Zoo in Genk (Belgium) and the Wassenaar Breeding Station in The Netherlands come to my mind.

 

[Batto]

Tierpark Lübeck, Germany

 

[elefante]

I don't know how much of it is visible from the lakeshore but Discovery Island is still in ruins in Disney World. That's an abandoned zoo I actually got to visit while it was still open.

 

[Alex Bensky]

Spokane's Walk in the Wild Zoo closed in the mid-nineties. They do have Cat Tales, a smaller zoo specializing in, of course, cats.

I was in the area just before the internet took hold and I was later quite irked to find out that although Cat Tales was in existence, neither a local guide book nor Spokane's chamber of commerce's publication on what to see in the area mentioned it at all, so I missed it.

 

[vogelcommando]

One year after the closure, still very visuable,the old Emmen Zoo - the Netherlands :

 

[MJB]

I was in Emmen zoo in 1983 and in the new zoo in 2016. I have never understood how a zoo as good, in my opinion, as the old one, has been closed