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June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

ZooWith gas prices high and recent bigger trips, we decided to explore a little closer to home last month.  We renewed our zoo family membership, which we have used to explore zoos all over the US.  It is one of the best values you can imagin, since you pay one low rate and can get into over 130 zoos for a year.

Here is the list as of June 2008:

Alabama Birmingham Zoo, Birmingham
Montgomery Zoo, Montgomery
Arkansas Little Rock Zoo, Little Rock
Arizona Phoenix Zoo, (50% off) Phoenix
Reid Park Zoo, Tuscon
California Aquarium of the Bay, (50% off) San Francisco
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium, San Pedro
Chaffee Zoological Gardens, Fresno
Charles Paddock Zoo
Coyote Point Museum, San Mateo
Happy Hollow Zoo, San Jose
Living Desert, (50% off) Palm Desert
Los Angeles Zoo, (50% off) Los Angeles
Micke Grove Zoo, Lodi
Oakland Zoo, (50% off) Oakland
Sacramento Zoo, (50% off) Sacramento
San Francisco Zoological Garden, (50% off) San Francisco
Santa Ana Zoo, Santa Ana
Santa Barbara Zoological Garden, Santa Barbara
Sequoia Park Zoo, Eureka
Colorado Pueblo Zoo, Pueblo
Connecticut Beardsley Zoo, Bridgeport
Washington D.C. Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington D.C.
Delaware Brandywine Zoo, Wilmington
Florida Brevard Zoo, Melbourne
Central Florida Zoological Park, Lake Monroe
Jacksonville Zoological Gardens, (50% off) Jacksonville
Lowry Park Zoo, Tampa
Miami Metrozoo, Miami
Mote Marine Aquarium, Sarasota
Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park, (50% off) West Palm Beach
Santa Fe Community College Zoo, Gainesville
Georgia Chehaw Wild Animal Park, Albany
Zoo Atlanta, (50% off) Atlanta
Hawaii Honolulu Zoo, Honolulu
Waikiki Aquarium, (50% off) Honolulu
Iowa Blank Park Zoo, Des Moines
Idaho Tautphaus Park Zoo, Idaho Falls
Zoo Boise, Boise
Illinois Cosley Zoo, Wheaton
Glen Oak Zoo, Peoria
Henson Robinson Zoo, Springfield
Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago
Miller Park Zoo, Bloomington
Niabi Zoo, Coal Valley
Scovill Zoo, (50% off) Decatur
Indiana Ft. Wayne Children’s Zoo, Ft. Wayne
Mesker Park Zoo & Botanical Garden, Evansville
Potawatomi Zoo, South Bend
Kansas David Traylor Zoo of Emporia, Emporia
Hutchinson Zoo, Hutchinson
Lee Richardson Zoo, Garden City
Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure, (50% off)Salina
Sedgwick County Zoo, (50% off) Wichita
Sunset Zoological Park, Manhattan
Topeka Zoo, Topeka
Kentucky Louisville Zoological Garden, Louisville
Louisiana Alexandria Zoological Park, Alexandria
Baton Rouge Zoo, Baton Rouge
Massachusetts Buttonwood Park Zoo, New Bedford
Capron Park Zoo, Attleboro
Museum of Science, Boston
Zoo New England / Franklin Park, Boston
Zoo New England / Stone Zoo, Stoneham
Maryland Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, (50% off) Baltimore
Salisbury Zoo, Salisbury
Michigan Binder Park Zoo, (50% off) Battle Creek
Detroit Zoo, (50% off) Royal Oak
John Ball Zoological Garden, Grand Rapids
Potter Park Zoological Gardens, Lansing
Minnesota Como Park Zoo, St. Paul
Minnesota Zoological Garden, Apple Valley
Missouri Dickerson Park Zoo, Springfield
Kansas City Zoo, (50% off) Kansas City
St. Louis Zoological Park, St. Louis
Wild Canid Survival Research Center, St. Louis
Mississippi Jackson Zoological Park, Jackson
Montana Zoo Montana, Billings
Nebraska Folsom Children’s Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Lincoln
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo, (50% off) Omaha
Riverside Zoo, Scottsbluff
New Jersey Bergen County Zoological Park, Paramus
Cape May County Park Zoo, Cape May
Turtle Back Zoo, West Orange
New Mexico Alameda Park Zoo, Alamogordo
Albuquerque Biological Park(50% off), Albuquerque
Lliving Desert Zoo and Gardens, Carlsbad
New York Buffalo Zoological Gardens, Buffalo
Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park, Syracuse
Seneca Park Zoo, Rochester
Staten Island Zoo, Staten Island
Trevor Zoo, Millbrook
North Carolina NC Aquarium at Fort Fisher, Kure Beach
NC Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores, Pine Knoll Shores
NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island, Manteo
North Carolina Zoological Park, Ashboro
Western North Carolina Nature Center, Ashville
North Dakota Chahinkapa Zoo, Wahpeton
Dakota Zoo, Bismark
Red River Zoo, Fargo
Roosevelt Park Zoo, Minot
Ohio African Wildlife Safari Park (50% off), Port Clinton
Akron Zoological Park, Akron
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, Dayton
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden (50% off), Cincinnati
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (50%off), Powell
Toledo Zoological Garden, Toledo
The Wilds (50% off), Cumberland
Oklahoma Oklahoma City Zoological Park, (50% off) Oklahoma City
Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum, (50% off) Tulsa
Oregon Oregon Zoo, Portland
Wildlife Safari, (50% off) Winston
Pennsylvania Elmwood Park Zoo, Norristown
Erie Zoo, Erie
Lehigh Valley Zoo, Schnecksville
National Aviary in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Philadelphia Zoo, (50% off) Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, Pittsburgh
ZOOAMERICA, Hershey
Rhode Island Roger Willams Park Zoo, Providence
South Carolina Greenville Zoo, Greenville
Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, Columbia
South Dakota Bramble Park Zoo, Watertown
Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum, (50% off) Sioux Falls
Tennessee Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park, Chattanooga
Knoxville Zoological Gardens, Knoxville
Memphis Zoo and Aquarium, (50% off) Memphis
Nashville Zoo at Grassmere, Nashville
Texas Abilene Zoological Park, Abilene
Caldwell Zoo, (50% off) Tyler
Cameron Park Zoo, Waco
Dallas Zoo and Aquarium, Dallas
El Paso Zoo, (50% off) El Paso
Ellen Trout Zoo, Lufkin
Gladys Porter Zoo, Brownsville
Houston Zoo Inc., Houston
San Antonio Zoological Gardens (50% off), San Antonio
Texas State Aquarium (50% off), Corpus Christi
Texas Zoo, (50% off) Victoria
Utah Utah’s Hogle Zoo, Salt Lake City
Virginia Mill Mountain Zoo, (50% off) Roanoke
Virginia Zoological Park, Norfolk
Washington Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Tacoma
Woodland Park Zoological Garden, Seattle
Wisconsin Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison
International Crane Foundation, Baraboo
Milwaukee County Zoological Garden, Milwaukee
NEW Zoo, Greenbay
Racine Zoological Garden, Racine
West Virginia Oglebay’s Good Zoo, (50% off) Wheeling
Canada Granby Zoo, Granby, Quebec
Toronto Zoo, (50% off) Scarborough, Ontario

We joined in Cleveland, but you should be able to join at any of these zoos.

The kids have a great time and the workout we get from walking around the zoos is great.  If you need some adventure on the cheap, a zoo membership is the way to go.

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