How Many Zoos Did You Visit In 2024?

How Many Zoos Did You Visit In 2024?

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Excellent year for me, I visited over 80 facilities ranging from large zoos to small nature centers spanning 11 US states and 1 other country. Some were revisits, most were new. Highlights include first time visits to the major zoos and aquariums in Ohio and Tennessee.

Alabama
Alabama Aquarium
Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo
Alabama Wildlife Center
Alabama Safari Park
Birmingham Zoo
Environmental Studies Center
Five Rivers Delta Center
McWane Science Center (has aquarium)
Montgomery Zoo
Tigers For Tomorrow

Florida
Busch Wildlife Sanctuary
Carson Springs
Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge
Everglades Alligator Farm
Florida Oceanographic Center
Gulf Breeze Zoo
Gulf Specimen Marine Lab Aquarium
Gulf World
Monkey Jungle
Reptile Discovery Center
Tallahassee Museum (has many live animals)
ZooWorld
Zoo Miami

Georgia
Bear Creek Nature Center
Bear Hollow Zoo
Chehaw Zoo
Dauset Trails
Elachee Nature Center
Flint Riverquarium
Georgia Aquarium
Go Fish Education Center
Iron P Homestead Zoo
Museum Of Arts & Science (has live animals)
Noah's Ark Sanctuary
Oxbow Meadows Learning Center
Yellow River Sanctuary
Zoo Atlanta
+ Atlanta Botanical Garden which has a few herps, and Amphibian Foundation which can only be visited during once a year open house. Both I dont count.

Louisiana
Baton Rouge Zoo
Alexandria Zoo
Louisiana Purchase Zoo
Zoosiana
Shreveport Aquarium
Black Bayou Cypress Park (barely count it)

Massachusetts
Forest Park Zoo
Lupa Zoo
Southwicks Zoo

Mississippi
Hattiesburg Zoo
Ocean World IMMS
Mississippi Aquarium
Tupelo Buffalo Park
Safari Wild

New Jersey
Jenkinsons Aquarium

New York
Bronx Zoo
Fort Rickey Zoo
Greenburgh Nature Center
Long Island Aquarium
Queens Zoo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Teatown Lake Reservation
The Wild Animal Park
Utica Zoo

Ohio
Columbus Zoo
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Akron Zoo
North Chagrin Nature Center
Lake Erie Nature Center
Penitentiary Glen Reservation
+ 3 really small nature centers I dont count on my list (they have galleries on here however)

Pennsylvania
Claws N' Paws
Pocono Snake Farm
Lake Tobias Wildlife Park
Shavers Creek Environmental Center
National Aviary
Pittsburgh Zoo

Tennessee
Chattanooga Zoo
Little Ponderosa Zoo
Memphis Zoo
Nashville Zoo
Rainforest Adventures Zoo
Reflection Riding Arborertum (has small zoo)
Tennessee Aquarium
Tennessee Safari Park
Zoo Knoxville

Dominican Republic
Ocean World

2025 will most certainly be a much smaller zoo year due to personal life and career changes. Hopefully though, I will be able to visit some of the bigger zoological facilities in Chicago and Dallas, but I'm not sure when.
 
I 2024 I visited

1. The Buffalo Zoo
2. Toledo Zoo

I made my first visit to Buffalo this year and was really impressed with their Arctic Edge and M&T Bank Rainforest Falls.

I also made around five visits to Toledo in 2024, a little less than usual but I hope to go more in 2025.
 
2024's been one heck of a year; after ending a 5 year toxic relationship, I've finally been able to make my own plans and adventures! In all, I've visited:
  1. Barcelona Zoo (regularly)
  2. Barcelona Aquarium (February; still need to upload those pics...)
  3. Köln Zoo (3-7)
  4. Frankfurt Zoo (4-7)
  5. Heidelberg Zoo (5-7)
  6. Leipzig Zoo (7-7)
  7. Berlin Zoo-Aquarium (8-7)
  8. Berlin Tierpark (9-7)
  9. Tierpark Hagenbeck (11-7)
  10. Duisburg Zoo (12-7)
  11. Düsseldorf Aqua-zoo (12-7)
  12. Réserve Africaine du Sigean (8-9)
Hopefully I'll be able to go to the UK this summer of 2025; I am planning to at least visit London and Chester Zoo, and Crocodiles of the World; if I have some more time and money, I may also visit Hamerton and Dudley Zoo.
 
In 2024 I only visited 6 zoos, each only once. This included three new zoos, and my second zoological institution outside the US. The two revisited zoos from TN I hadn't been to for about a decade.

New:
1. Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium, AZ
2. Phoenix Zoo, AZ
3. Taipei Zoo, Taiwan

Revisited:
1. Lincoln Park Zoo, IL
2. Zoo Knoxville, TN
3. Rainforest Adventures Zoo, TN

Below is my total from last year, no overlap and down three, which is interesting.
CMP said:
In 2023 I visited 2 old (And regularly visited in years past) zoos, as well as 7 new ones, for a total of 9. I didn't visit anywhere more than once this year.

I visited for the first time this year:
1. California Academy of Sciences, CA
2. Monterey Bay Aquarium, CA
3. Miller Park Zoo, IL
4. Shamba Safari, WI
5. International Crane Foundation, WI
6. Henry Vilas Zoo, WI
7. Cosley Zoo, IL

I revisited:
8. Shedd Aquarium, IL
9. St. Louis Zoo, MO

Overall, being up by two from last year is not bad, although hopefully, I'll be able to get to more next year, including some new ones, although this is (Near verbatim) what I said last year too :rolleyes:
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The total number may be low, but each facility was quite enjoyable, in their own ways. I've already well surpassed the total number of visits and new facilities this year (2025), however :D.

I'd like to make a number of revisits to nearby zoos this year, and who knows what the future will bring and what more new places I make it to this year.
 
My worst year for number of zoo visits in more than a decade I'm sure( I haven't checked but I don't think there are less than 35 zoos most years). Just 50 visits to 24 zoos

Hamerton 6
Colchester 2
Linton 19
Johnson's of Old Hurst
Shepreth
Whipsnade 2
Hemsley
Fenn Bell
Wildwood
Banham
British Wildlife Centre 2
Tilgate
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Cannon Hall Farm
Twycross
Hertfordshire Zoo
Jimmy's Farm
Exmoor
Paignton
Axe Valley
Marwell
London
Monkeyworld
Africa Alive

Edit

I knew something was missing

Port Lympne

So 51 visits to 25 zoos
 
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It was an amazing year for me zoo wise! Visiting 3 new zoos that have been on my bucket-list, and 2 zoos I haven't visited in a while.

Kansas City Zoo - July 2024 (first visit since 2022?)
Berlin Zoo - July 2024
Prague Zoo - July 2024
Tiergarten Schönbrunn - July 2024
Blank Park Zoo - September 2024 (First visit since 2019)

This was also interestingly the first year since 2018 I have not visited the Henry Doorly Zoo.
 
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